Sat.Nov 26, 2011 - Fri.Dec 02, 2011

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The Anxiety Wars

The Bamboo Project Blog

When I was a junior in college, we were hit by a severe outbreak of salmonella , a result of undercooked eggs in some stuffing. It was so bad, people were literally collapsing in the quad. The walls of the infirmary were lined with retching students and the National Guard had to be called in to help with the situation. . In the aftermath, a weird sort of competitiveness set in among those who had been unfortunate enough to contract the disease.

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6 Gift Ideas for Colleagues

45 Things

Since I know many of you are shopping online this week (wink, wink, our little secret), I thought I'd help with the process regarding what to get your colleagues or valuable customers. Here are some ideas I thought might make nice gifts: * Steve Job's autobiography. At $17.87 on Amazon, that's a nice read for any entrepreneur-at-heart in your office. * Cookies.

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How To Switch Jobs In A Market Slowdown

TheHRBlog

All things considered, this is not the best of times for switching jobs in India. This country has seen a fair bit of negative fallout of the economic problems in Europe and the US, and most MNCs in India are tightening their belts on recruitment. If you are looking to get a senior-level job in […].

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Revisiting 13 Guidelines for Employee Engagement Programs

David Zinger

A very popular post on employee engagement programs. This post on employee engagement program guidelines was published exactly 2 years ago on December 1. It is one of my most popular posts and gets read about 5 to 10 times every day since it was published. One big change at the end is that the Employee Engagement Network has grown in 2 years from 1750 to 4415 members.

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An HR Leaders Guide: 7 Questions To Ask When Developing Your Cancer Strategy

As HR and Benefits leaders are in the midst of evaluating cancer care solutions and designing their requirements for vendors, it’s key to know what questions to ask to ensure the development of a truly comprehensive strategy: from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Getting to the right answers starts with asking the right questions: How can better access improve engagement?

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Finding Courage

The Bamboo Project Blog

In my experience, when it comes to career, there are two kinds of courage. . The first is the courage it takes to pick yourself up after you've fallen. This is the courage to make a career change or find a new job after you've been laid off or fired. An event occurs and the person responds. This is reactive courage. . The other kind of courage is the courage it takes to say, "This situation is not working for me.

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Munnabhai, Gandhism And Corporate India

TheHRBlog

It is a sad statement on India that in recent times, Gandhi’s teachings only found a contemporary platform in Bollywood’s ‘Munnabhai’ film series. That said, we have to give due credit to Sanjay Dutt for underscoring Mahatma Gandhi’s ideals to a generation that seems to have forgotten them. The ‘Gandhigiri’ that Sanjay Dutt’s character Munnabhai […].

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Quality is Human. Quality is Love.

QAspire

Quality is Human. When leaders rely too much on processes, metrics, facts and trends to measure project/organization’s quality, they forget one thing: that quality is about being human. Quality is human. That is because people drive quality and exercise their choice of delivering good versus great work. Because work allows people to expand their capacity to deliver.

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On "Being the Best"

The Bamboo Project Blog

The quest for technical best is a form of hiding. You can hide from the marketplace because you're still practicing your technique. And you can hide from the hard work of real art and real connection because you decide that success lies in being the best technically, at getting a 99 instead of a 98 on an exam.

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Modern Manager: What's Your '-ity' Strategy?

Working Girl

'Diversity. Mobility. Productivity. What are they good for, besides ending with ''-ity''? Not so very long ago, most people came to the office at the same time every day, dressed the same, acted the same, left at the same time and kind of meandered through the day at a steady pace. You knew where you stood. You knew where everyone else stood, too. Not that there wasn’t any diversity , no sir.

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9 Leave Management Mistakes To Avoid This Year

The article talks about the 9 leave management mistakes that you should be avoiding with smarter technology in your organisation and save business costs.

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Freefall

True Faith HR

'In this weekend''s New York Times , Floyd Norris highlighted the latest statistics for workers and corporations. He writes: In the eight decades before the recent recession, there was never a period when as much as 9 percent of American gross domestic product went to companies in the form of after-tax profits. Now the figure is over 10 percent. During the same period, there never was a quarter when wage and salary income amounted to less than 45 percent of the economy.

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Help Your Employees Maximize Their Benefits

Insperity

Employee benefits are now an integral part of the compensation packages offered by many businesses. Health insurance, retirement savings plans and tuition reimbursement are just some of the perks included to help companies attract and retain talented individuals. Not all workers take full advantage of their benefits, however. And while you can’t force someone to participate in benefit plan offerings, there are several steps you can take to help your staff make the most of what your company has t

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The Sharing Model of Doing Business

The Bamboo Project Blog

Derek Sivers, serial entrepreneur and founder of CD Baby, shared some advice last week on his business model: I feel like I know almost nothing about business, because the only business I’ve ever done is the co-op / sharing model. It goes like this: 1. You already have something that people want. It might be something you own, something you’ve learned how to do, or access to valuable resources, space, or people. 2.

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All We Ask Is That You Join Our.Cult!

NoExcusesHR

'Finding the perfect job. The "dream job." Ahhh, so enticing. The grass looks so green over there.but how do I get from here to there? I believe everything they''re telling me about this opportunity, and it sounds perfect. I believe.I''m expecting this to be just what I''ve been searching for. Really? Wake up. Nothing is Perfect One of the issues that has challenged me in my professional life is the notion of expectations.

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Your 2024 Annual Talent Acquisition Roadmap: Its Seasonal!

Recruiting is seasonal! Our popular Talent Acquisition Roadmap helps you master seasonal hiring like a boss. We break down key data on the ever-changing job market so you can take advantage of peak hiring times and ace recruiting even in slower seasons. Whether you need to scale up your team quickly or get creative in tighter times, this roadmap helps you understand the recruiting landscape.

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Is it Just a Bad Day or is it Everyday?

Reviewsnap

'Everybody has the occasional bad day at work. What often starts as a problem or irritant outside the office can get carried over to work. Or what looks like a promising day turns sour because of one or more work related issues. But what about the employee who just seems to be in a bad mood or negative frame of mind most or all of the time? What''s their excuse?

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What You Should Know About the WARN Act

Insperity

At some point, you may decide that the closing of your company is inevitable — not something you want to think about, but layoffs do happen to the best of us. That information, in many cases, is not something you can keep close to your vest. The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act , which has been in effect since 1989, calls for you to notify your workers within 60 days prior to closing your business or instituting layoffs if you fall under the act’s criteria.

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Anger: An Internal Enemy

Impact Coaching Solutions

Are you really in control? “This person really upsets me!” is a very common expression; the anger emotion arises when something or someone gets us off balance. This change from our “not angry” or relaxed state to an “angry” state, I would say, is not perceivable. Of course we know when we. are angry or very angry, but when we are aware we are already beyond the transition point from relaxed to angry.

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Outmaneuver the Old Guard

NoExcusesHR

'A true story. Many years ago a young man was being blocked from moving ahead within his professional discipline by a committee of his peers. The reviewing body had the authority to block his transition to the highest level of his profession, in effect, ending his career. You see, this young man had struggled a bit, and the old guard was not interested in wasting anymore time on him.

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AI & DEI: With Great Opportunities Comes Great HR Responsibility

Speaker: Jen Kirkwood - Partner, Responsible HR & AI at IBM and World Economic Forum Executive Fellow

The promise of AI for today’s organizations is real, yet in a frenzied state of experimentation, many stumble to get to a full-scale enterprise. As companies race to discover what generative AI can do, HR must lead conversations about how to balance cutting-edge innovations with integrity, trust, and diversity. Globally, organizations are at a critical intersection of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and AI acceleration.

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Measurement by Belief (Liberty Mutual at CLO Symposium)

Strategic HCM

'There’s so much going on in the UK at the moment, with tomorrow’s Spending Review and Wednesday’s public sector pensions strike. And I still haven’t got around to posting on last week’s report from the High Pay Commission. But I’m out in South Africa at the moment and feel a bit cut off from these issues. But today, as well as a couple of meetings, and a bit of time by the pool, I’ve been finishing off on an input to a UK client’s learning strategy, and have been reading some research and watch

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Innovation Challenge: Humans Reject Creativity

Inpower Coaching

Breaking news for creative types: you’re not crazy. Your innovative ideas really are being ignored, downplayed, sidelined and squashed. So says a study out of University of Pennsylvania Wharton, University of North Carolina and Cornell last year. Turns out that experiments turn up some disturbing findings for those of us hoping to spur innovation in our organizations: new ideas increase feelings of uncertainty and stimulate an anti-creativity bias.

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7 Significant Steps to Employee Engagement Progress

David Zinger

3. Path Progress: Navigate through setbacks, path progress, enable work and achieve small wins. . (Part 3 of a 10 part series on how managers can improve employee engagement). Fully engaged. Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer published The Progress Principle this year demonstrating the primary role progress and avoidance of setbacks plays in motivation and engagement.

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I Hired A Recruiter - Update!

NoExcusesHR

'I''ve been searching for a new recruiter to join my team. I took an unorthodox approach ( imagine that?), wrote about it here , and quite honestly didn''t know what to expect. I summarized my search this way: "I have a vacancy and I want a kick ass Recruiter who embraces social media to be part of my team." Today I am fired up to tell you I achieved my goal.I hired a kick ass recruiter.

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2024 Payroll Calendar Templates

These calendars provide pay period dates and paydays for biweekly, semi-monthly, and monthly payroll in 2024. Use them as a reminder or share with employees so they can celebrate payday.

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Dark Angel

True Faith HR

'I love this! At the recent Republican Governor''s Association meeting in Florida, Republican strategist Frank Luntz was trying to assist Republicans on how to address the growing dissatisfaction represented by Occupy Wall Street. One such way is to focus on "jobs" rather than "careers." According to Chris Moody , the conversation should go as follows: 4.