Sat.Dec 24, 2011 - Fri.Dec 30, 2011

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The Six 21st Century Skills You REALLY Need

The Bamboo Project Blog

Given the work that I do, I'm a sucker for skill lists. As our work worlds grow ever more complex and challenging, it seems that the skills themselves become more complex too. . Increasingly, though, I've begun to believe that these lists are distracting us from the real skills of success. While working with big data , operating in virtual teams and"cognitive load management"all sound great, I think there are far more fundamental skills we should be developing first. .

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How to Search for Another Job Without Your Boss Finding Out

45 Things

I spent the holidays with family and friends, and the one subject that came up over and over again (apart from the discussion that we were all eating too much) was about jobs. Some people were looking for jobs, and others were complaining about their current positions. When I asked these people whether they were planning to look for new positions this year, I got a lot of "We'll see" or "YES!

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The Best Employee Engagement Blog Posts: 7 for 2011

David Zinger

Here is my personal list of the top 7 blog posts for 2011: 1. The Employee Engagement Pyramid What are the 10 actions managers can take to turbo charge employee engagement? Engagement is more than a feeling, survey number, or a YouTube happy dance. We engage in actions directed towards results. The first key to consider when acting to increase employee engagement is what results are you working to achieve and how can you involve all employees in formulating those results or achieving those re

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Redefine Your Limits – Live to your Full Potential

TheHRBlog

We are limited by the beliefs we set in our mind, history shows that successful people are able to break these shackles and unleash their potential. The difference is the “ T ” between Can Do and Can’t Do. The “ T ” is your Thought. Achieving your Potential Steve Jobs was one of the […].

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Preventing Workplace Violence and Complying with California’s New Legal Requirements (SB-553)

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Every company everywhere should have a plan to combat workplace violence and properly respond to violent incidents. California has stepped to the plate and become the first state to mandate workplace violence prevention requirements for employees and employers. Even if you are in a different state or country, these workplace violence requirements are applicable to almost every employer anywhere.

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Are You the Cause or the Effect?

The Bamboo Project Blog

Accountabilty is the willingness to acknowledge that we have participated in creating, through comission or ommision, the conditions that we wish to see changed. Without this capacity to see ourselves as cause, our efforts become either coercive or wishfully dependent on the transformation of others. . Community will be created the moment we decide to act as creators of what it can become.

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Time Will Tell

True Faith HR

'It is winter break where I work, which as given me a little time off, and an opportunity to catch up on a little TV and pop culture. The latter half of 2011 was dominated by #occupywallstreet and its various spinoffs throughout the U.S. Anger as a result of stagnating wages, growing income inequality, and an uneven playing field resulted in many rising up in protest.

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Gratitude 2011

QAspire

Gratefulness fills me whenever a year ends. Each year brings along new hopes, some challenges, many opportunities. When the year ends, we look back and ruminate on how we did to seize those opportunities, to face those challenges and what we learned out of it all. One of the things I am so grateful about is this blog, and everything it brings along – clarity in thinking, expansion of my world view, some fantastic (and often life changing) lessons and many encouraging friends.

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Learning Together

The Bamboo Project Blog

(Socrates) introduced the idea that individuals could not be intelligent on their own, that they need someone else to stimulate them. His brilliant idea was that if two unsure individuals were put together, they could achieve what they could not do separately; they could discover the truth, their own truth, for themselves. . --Theodore Zeldin, An Intimate History of Humanity.

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The Holiday Post.

Working Girl

'in which, instead of writing a new post, I link to several other posts and sites. (What, you''ve never done that?) But first, I''d like to wish all my friends a wonderful holiday. Of course, many of you I know only as a small thumbnail but that shouldn''t stand in the way of friendship or admiration. I trust many of you are actually life-size and hope you enjoyed a wonderful holiday season with friends and family.

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Fortify I-9 Compliance With The All-in-one Team Training Handbook

USCIS estimates that 76% of paper I-9s have at least one fineable error —with high-volume hirers at the highest risk. But worry not. WorkBright’s Ultimate I-9 Compliance Guide is a comprehensive resource to instantly level up your team’s I-9 process and reduce your audit risk. What to expect: Written for HR teams: No cryptic legal jargon here. We’ve made it fast and easy to find concise answers to nearly fifty I-9 questions in simple terms.

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The Morning After: How to Handle Embarrassing Displays at Your Office Holiday Party

Insperity

Almost everyone can attest to having witnessed humorous displays of bad behavior at an office holiday party. But when similar situations occur at your company fête, it is rarely a laughing matter. Picking up the pieces after an unfortunate incident requires more than discretion. The wrong reaction can cause bigger problems than whatever happened the night before.

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Resolutions Are For Suckers

NoExcusesHR

'I have long been a member of the New Year''s Resolutions Club. I think long and hard about how I''m going to change my life and become something that I''m not. er.I mean something better. I''ve written personal lists, professional lists, exercise lists, organizational lists, and other lists I''m sure.I just can''t seem to remember what they were. Good Intentions It''s not that setting goals for yourself is a bad idea.

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3 Important Issues to Address Before the New Year

Insperity

The New Year is typically a time of reflection and change. Not only do we move our calendars forward, but many work-related functions re-set. Here are three important topics you should discuss with your staff prior to 2012 to ensure that there are no unwelcome surprises: 1. Payroll tax. Though the House recently passed H.R. 3630, a bill that would extend the two percent reduction in workers’ payroll tax and self-employment tax that’s scheduled to expire at the end of 2011 through 20

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