Human Resources 101

A study looks at how the organization’s culture contributes to or causes employee burnout.
Lack of respect from the organization — rather than job demands or personality — is responsible for employees leaving their organizations, according to a new study from a Wharton management professor.
Human Resource Executive Online - Fueling Employee Burnout

Hence workers pulling into the company’s amenity-packed headquarters at 2 p.m. aren’t considered late. Nor are those pulling out at 2 p.m. seen as leaving early. There are no schedules. No mandatory meetings. No impression-management hustles. Work is no longer a place where you go, but something you do. It’s O.K. to take conference calls [...]

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Presented By: Duncan Mathison , Managing Director , DBM

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Every time a company decides to off-shore a function, or consolidate facilities, or restructure, that company is in transition. And in every case, the talent you [...]

What do you do when you have to review someone whom you haven’t supervised for more than perhaps a few months? Obviously, we encourage you to go to our previous casts on reviews, which are some of the most popular on Manager Tools. They do a great job of laying out in excruciating detail exactly [...]

Actually, there are 107 tips from the thiagi group, organized in the following categories:

Benefits of Coaching
Building Relationships
Coaching Conversations
Concluding Activities
Dealing with Reluctance, Resistance or Defensiveness
Demonstrating
Establishing Credibility
Framing the Coaching Process
Giving Feedback
Goal Setting
Identifying and Analysing Areas for Coaching
Individual Differences
Initial Activities
Resources

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Strip away the logos, offices, and ad campaigns: an organization is nothing more than a tapestry of interwoven commitments. Great organizations are those where promises mean something; where people can rely on one another, where trust isn’t an amorphous, remote ideal but the very fabric binding all disparate members of the organization no matter how [...]

Guy Browning offers 20 top tips for surviving life in the workplace Guy Browning offers 20 top tips for surviving life in the workplace. Number 6 is great.
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What differentiates a business thought from a normal thought is that business thoughts have a “going forward” at the end of [...]

More than a million Canadian workers, or about 1 in 12, are dissatisfied with their jobs, a Statscan survey released Tuesday suggests - and that dissatisfaction leads to stress and depression, researchers warn.
The 2002 Canadian Community Health Survey, which focused on mental health and well-being, said just over six per cent of workers were “not [...]

Do your co-workers find the rumor du jour hard to resist? Is your office laced with backbiting and backstabbing? April Callis of Springboard Consulting says she has the cure: Gossip Stoppers. The East Lansing, Mich., trainer has given this half-day workshop 30 times this year at infected workplaces like hospitals and universities and is now [...]

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ACCELERATING THE PERFORMANCE OF HIGH POTENTIAL LEADERS

All sessions presented online, 90 minutes, no charge.

Thursday, October 26,  9 Pacific / 10 Mountain / 11 Central / 12 Eastern

Effective leaders are in demand. Often the best and most cost effective [...]