Let’s Talk: A guide to resolving workplace conflicts (pdf 3807 KB)

I’m a fan of Tom Peters’ writings. I probably aggravate people by the number of times I start a statement with the words, “Tom Peters says.”

One of the things I appreciate is the number of resources he provides via his website. In addition to the free stuff at the link above, you can:

• Download PowerPoint decks, going back to 2001
• Download PowerPoint decks from his seminars, going back to 1999
• Read his blog, Dispatches from the New World of Work
• and more

It’s worth checking out his site.

Tom Peter’s: Free Stuff!.

Viadeo, one of the world’s largest business social networks with over one million members across Europe and 750,000 members across China, has today launched free private social networks for business and alumni associations within its worldwide business community. The private co-branded areas or ‘Community Groups’ will allow business and alumni associations to network with their members with the option to forge contacts with other like-minded people using Viadeo’s extensive business social network.

While the private Community Groups will be developed and hosted by Viadeo, the business associations will own, run and co-brand their own private area, as well as setting the rules for membership and participation within the portal. The private Community Group will also have its own exclusive URL for the association.

Business benefits

Association members will be now able to communicate, debate, find information and organise events with other members, old colleagues or friends within their private hubs for the first time. A range of networking tools, such as blogs, forums, mailshots, and RSS will be available to facilitate fast and easy communication within the Community Group. The Community Groups will also benefit from chat and VoIP services due to the imminent integration of Jabber in the Viadeo network.

Additionally, business and alumni associations will now have a direct and efficient communication tool with their members, by issuing newsletters, personalised or group emails, information about events, job adverts and offers for members through the Community Groups. Moreover, business and alumni associations will be able to attract new members by promoting their activities through Viadeo’s extensive social network.

“Business associations and alumni groups may struggle to keep in touch with their members, as people change their jobs and re-locate around the world,” says Peter Cunningham, UK Country Manager, Viadeo. “However, now business and alumni associations can run their own dynamic and interactive communities using Viadeo’s Community Groups. By creating their own private areas on Viadeo, it is now possible for business and alumni associations to promote their brand to members and other like-minded business people all over the world.”

Viadeo

Many in the H.R. community have recognized the benefits of blogging. Frank Roche, at KnowHR Blog, has written a couple of posts explaining how to start mining the wealth of H.R. information available in blogs.

• What Everybody in HR Ought to Know About Blogs and How to Read them Fast
• What Everybody in HR Ought to Know About RSS

To give you some idea of blog growth: in the first of those posts, dated April 13th, Frank links to a search at Technorati (blog tracking service) for blogs about Human Resources. The search returned 709 blogs. That same search today, three weeks later, returns 1,065 blogs about Human Resources.

Time to interview job candidates? Learn the secret techniques smart companies use to identify tomorrow’s most promising talent.

The feature package contains the following articles to help you select the next brilliant member of your team: 

• How to Conduct a Job Interview
• Recruit Like the Pros
• The 7 Interview Questions You Must Ask
• 10 Mistakes Managers Make During Job Interviews

In his session he covered:

• The goals for employment branding;
• What is included in a brand image;
• How to craft a successful employment brand; and
• Thoughts on the importance of a career’s website.

Keynote sessions don’t generally offer opportunity for in-depth coverage of a topic, but Matthew was able to convey a considerable amount of practical information within his session. One could take the material he presented and immediately begin to create an employment brand.

The NAS website has a host of recruitment communications articles and white papers available: as on-line documents, PDF files, and video presentations.

Carnival #6 will be May 2^nd and is going to be hosted by Susan Heathfield at About Human Resources. Send your submissions directly to her (humanresources dot guide at about dot com) and put “Carnival” in the subject so she doesn’t miss it. One submission per blogger please.

Human Resources Q&A archive

Accommodating persons with disabilities: What HR managers should know
Dealing with difficult people
Succession Planning: What you didn’t know you need to do
Are you being bullied at work?
Nurturing Creativity: A priceless tactic toward innovative organizations
Capturing charisma: Reflecting on past management
Strategy – A Process of Problem Solving & Decision Making
Changing of the guard
Motivating the Project Team
Hell hath no fury like a micromanaged workforce
Negotiating Through Conflict: Creating win/win solutions
Making the move to a nonprofit organization
The care and feeding of ideas
Why nonprofits need creative employees
Managing Conflict in a Female Dominated Workplace
Running More Effective Meetings
An Introduction To Competency Based Hiring
Attracting Top Talent in the Nonprofit Sector
Am I a workaholic?
The True Meaning of Progressive Discipline
At First Glance: How to Read Grievances
Succession Planning and Management
More trouble in the workplace
The Trouble with Bosses
Motivation at the Margins: Gender Issues in the Canadian Voluntary Sector
Interview questions that really work!
Painless Performance Appraisals
Retiring baby boomers and the looming workforce shift
Ten steps to successful interviewing
To Stay or Leave: Job satisfaction and turnover
Managing anxiety in the workplace
Attracting talent – Living your values
Everyday solutions for training and development
Hiring the Senior Executive: tools and resources for every organization
An orientation plan in three phases
A human resources strategy
From survive to thrive: Team building for a small shop
What is a strategic plan?

While the handbook is written by the Alberta Government, for employers in Alberta, there is lots of useful information to be culled by anyone looking to recruit and retain employees.

It presents:

• the business case to consider the cost of employee turnover
• information to help you plan how to attract, recruit, select and retain workers
• positive practices and strategies to help you attract, recruit, select and retain workers
• further information and resources.

This publication is available on-line through the Alberta Learning Information Service (ALIS) website – Alberta’s leading on-line source for career, learning and employment information.

To access this and additional publications, visit www.alis.gov.ab.ca/careershop

Employers who are able to find and keep valued employees gain the upper hand in today’s labour market.  Finders & Keepers provides proven strategies and practical tools to help small- and medium-sized businesses and not-for-profit organizations attract, recruit, select and retain employees.