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Leadership and career
November 16, 2016

5 Tips for Reinventing the Performance-Review Process

Until recently, performance appraisals were mostly an annual affair, but that's changing as human resource (HR) and business leaders look to improve talent management processes to engage and retain top-performing employees. In fact, HR professionals are now tasked with understanding "the business" of the business, which means working collaboratively with…
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Maurice Gilbert 0
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Leadership and career
November 14, 2016

Why Your Company Should Have Zero Tolerance for Zero Tolerance

By: Robert Zafft Like many catch phrases, "zero tolerance" obscures more than it explains and hurts more than it helps.  Rather than adopting zero-tolerance policies, corporate compliance should take a lesson from fields like manufacturing and strive for processes and cultures of continuous improvement. Zero-Tolerance Follies A leader who advocates…
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Maurice Gilbert 0
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Leadership and career
November 11, 2016

Trust and Integrity: The Value of a Company’s Reputation

By: Michael Volkov Warren Buffet, the Oracle of Omaha, understands the importance of corporate culture and adhering to a code of ethics. He has been quoted as saying: "Lose money and I will forgive you. Lose even a shred of reputation and I will be ruthless. … Wealth can always be recreated, but reputation takes…
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Maurice Gilbert 0
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Leadership and career
November 9, 2016

Debunking Wage Garnishment Myths

By: Corrinne Flores Employers in the U.S. today must navigate an unorganized amalgam of federal and state legislation, agency regulations, policies and sometimes inconsistent case law to avoid costly penalties for noncompliance, not only with respect to their specific business, but also with respect to their requirements as employers generally. …
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Maurice Gilbert 0
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Leadership and career
November 7, 2016

Why Social Media Has Become the New BYOD

By: Mike Pagani There's no doubt that using social media communications can offer businesses tremendous business advantage in terms of reaching potential new customers and staying in touch regularly with the ones they have. In fact, the number of organizations now actively using social media as one of their standard…
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Maurice Gilbert 0
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Leadership and career
October 31, 2016

HR Nightmares: The Disconnect Between Employee Experience and Business Goals

New SilkRoad research examines top worries of HR professionals and finds that 56 percent of HR professionals have no process linking employee experience to annual business goals. CHICAGO (October 25, 2016) -- SilkRoad (www.silkroad.com), a global leader in talent activation solutions, recently announced its fourth annual "What Keeps HR Up At Night?"…
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Clark Conine 0
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Leadership and career
October 21, 2016

10 Ways to Mentor Clever People

By: Linda Henman If you played sports in school, did the coach play everyone equally? Create an egalitarian form of governance in which each person had a say? Or, did the stars — the ones who had the innate athletic ability and drive to put it into action — receive a disproportionate…
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Clark Conine 0
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Leadership and career
October 19, 2016

4 Ways Technology Redefines Work-Life Boundaries

The days of being anchored to a cubicle for a standard eight-hour workday are becoming a thing of the past, as remote work begins to overshadow traditional workplace practices. To many people, this means more time with family, flexible hours and being able to work from the comfort of your…
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Maurice Gilbert 0
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Leadership and career
October 17, 2016

HR Pros Need Not Work Overtime to Address New Overtime Laws

By: Jonathan Benhamou Since 1938, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) has required most employers to document their employees’ wages, hours and other employment practices. Human Resources (HR) professionals know that under the current guidelines, job titles need to align with appropriate responsibilities and compensation, otherwise companies may leave themselves…
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Maurice Gilbert 0
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Leadership and career
October 10, 2016

True Leadership Faces a Serious Moral Problem

By: Frank Bucaro For the past three decades, I’ve been crisscrossing the country, speaking to large and small businesses and organizations on ethics and values. The vast majority of my audiences agree that embracing ethical behavior just makes good business sense. In fact, I can hardly think of more than one person…
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