Human Resources: General eBulletin for the Week of February 26, 2007

Week of February 26, 2007

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Benefits

Executive Summary: Caring for Children
Escalating childcare costs - along with intensified work schedules driven by global competition - are among the most pressing issues facing working parents today.

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Compensation

Engagement and High-Performance Pay
How do you really engage a workforce and make them stakeholders in your company's success?

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Human Resources Management

Excuse Me, Is This Rehab?
A six-term Senator makes awkward, insensitive, racial remarks. Where does he go? To rehab, says Alan Weiss.

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Labor Relations

Joan Lloyd's HR Words of Advice: Health Hazard
Joan Lloyd shares a wise word with a reader who needs help to clear the clutter.

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Legal

Explain Yourself! An Anatomy of Explanations
How do you dissect the anatomy of explanations? Mediate.com sheds some
light on explanations included in negotiations.

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Organizational Development

Virtual Teams Are Routine, But Now Managers Need New Skills
Fewer than one in four managers at global companies work in the same location as their team members, a trend which strains workplace collegiality and prompts management concern, according to a study by global consulting firm BlessingWhite.

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Performance Management

Steps to Manage Anger
Anger is one of the biggest problems we face as human beings. For many of us, anger comes quickly and often, sometimes for unknown reasons. When hijacked by anger, people do harmful, destructive acts.

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Executive Coaching

Ask the Coach - Issue 30: Making Coaching Programmatic?
If you are interested in making coaching more programmatic in your organization, don't miss Executive Coach, Merry Marcus', guidelines for a coaching process that drives ROI.

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Leadership

Thought Leader Interview with Jim Kouzes: A Leader's Legacy - What
Really Matters
Jim Kouzes has found great success in uncovering The Leadership Challenge, now, he is stepping away from the microscope to reflect. Jim shares his thoughts from his latest book A Leader's Legacy that reflect on the leadership lessons he has learned over the past 25 years.

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HR Measurements and Metrics

Is It Survey Time?
What is an ideal time to conduct a survey? David Youssefnia highlights both the good and bad times for conducting employee and customer surveys.

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Staffing and Recruitment

Post-Rejection Follow-up Letters
You've left a job interview feeling very positive. You picture yourself sitting in a cubicle with your new business cards perched beside you, and then you get the phone call. You didn't get the job. How do you deal with rejection?

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Workforce Acquisition

7 Keys to Successful Employment Selection Decisions
Over the last 50 years, researchers have conducted numerous studies on the employment selection process. Stephen Moulton discusses some of the most current.

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HR Outsourcing

Routine Layoff? There Is No Such Thing! Layoff Categories and
Considerations
Given the economic forces at work in the marketplace, layoffs continue to be a business reality in many industries explains Jeff Trautman of the OI Partners.

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HRIS/ERP

Use Table-Top Planning to Keep Business Continuity Plans Fresh
The enterprise Business Continuity Plan (BCP) and Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) should be living documents. Plans that are never reviewed or evaluated become stale and prove ineffective in the actual event of a
disaster or business disruption. Keep BCP and DRP plans fresh by employing table-top planning exercises.

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Training and Development

Training is an Investment, Not an Expense
Less than one half of all employees feel that their company has provided the training they need to do their job well. Bruce Katcher shares his views on how to know if training is effective.

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Customized Skill Assessments: How Job-tailored Tests Make Hiring More Effective and Defensible
This webcast describes the value that skills-based assessment can add to the hiring process. The presenter will provide practical information about using skills-based assessment with a focus on creating customized assessments that are both effective and legally defensible. Strategies
for evaluating the effectiveness of skills based assessments will also be discussed.

Date: March 7, 2007
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET
Presenter: Charles Handler, Rocket-Hire

Onboarding: How Web-Based Onboarding Engages New Hires and Speeds Time-to-Productivity
Ineffective onboarding of new employees comes at a high cost – lost productivity, incomplete provisioning, line manager time and poor retention of new hires are just a few of the ways in which employers pay the price. In this informative one-hour webcast you will learn how innovative Onboarding Technology solutions can orchestrate the three key components of effective on-boarding: forms management, task
management and socialization.

Date: March 13, 2007
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET
Presenters:
Barbara Levin, Enwisen
Barry Maxon, Enwisen Inc.

Using Assessments to Reduce Unwanted Turnover
Pre-employment assessments are designed to be not only a screening tool, but also a workforce development solution for employees post-hire. Learn practical and useful information from a hands-on leader in this field. Dr. Nemeroff will discuss hiring challenges in a tight labor market, how to use assessments to identify the right candidates, and strategies to minimize the financial impact of bad hires on profits.

Date: March 27, 2007
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET
Presenters:
Wayne Nemeroff, PsyMax Solutions
Shari Fryer, Shari Fryer & Associates

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Increasing Your Influence: How to Make Your Ideas Stick
When you speak to people in your organization about important ideas, does it ever come across as just a bunch of "blah, blah, blah..."? Don't fall into that trap anymore! Join Karen Elmhirst as she speaks with Chip Heath on the essential elements for making your ideas memorable, and how to move people to take action in support of them.

Date: March 5, 2007
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET
Presenters:
Karen Elmhirst, HR.com
Chip Heath, Stanford University

Achieving Total Quality Management: A Program for Action - Summary

Achieving Total Quality Management is a compact guide to the concepts, methods, and techniques for achieving Total Quality as written by French quality expert, Michael Periogord.

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