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• Using Employee Opinion Surveys to Drive Engagement

  (Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by our friends at SilkRoad, whose passion is creating a world-class employee experience. I just returned from their annual users’ conference – three days of networking, education and fun. I wrote a post about their great event over on the [...]

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• Implications Of An Older Workforce

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  I stumbled across this article in The Atlantic talking about the number of older workers surpassing younger workers for the first time. It’s really not a surprise. Many baby boomers are having to postpone retirement because they’re still feeling the impact of the [...]

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• Implications Of An Older Workforce

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  I stumbled across this article in The Atlantic talking about the number of older workers surpassing younger workers for the first time. It’s really not a surprise. Many baby boomers are having to postpone retirement because they’re still feeling the impact of the [...]

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• High Performing Organizations Manage Change Well

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  Want a competitive edge? The key is all about the way a company manages change, according to i4cp’s report “Building a Change-Ready Organization: Critical Human Capital Issues 2013”. You can download a copy of the full report here.

  Change is a [...]

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• Telecommuting Doesn’t Have a Major Impact With Employees

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  (Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by Allied Van Lines®, a leader in the moving and storage industry with more than 75 years of experience. For a second year, they are championing a research project, Allied HRIQ, aimed to provide business professionals with data [...]

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• How To: Start a Blog – Ask HR Bartender

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  Blogs were started back in the 1990s. At that time, they were mostly the work of a single individual about a single subject. Today, it’s estimated there are about 130 million blogs in existence covering more subjects that we can even begin to imagine. For that [...]

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• Working With People You Don’t Like – Ask HR Bartender

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  I’ve written before about working with people you don’t like. But what happens if you’re the manager and your employees don’t get along. That’s the conundrum this manager faces.

  I’ve been the manager at a restaurant and bar for about 5 years.' [...]

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• The Time Is Now – Friday Distraction

  (Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by The Workforce Institute at Kronos, a think tank that helps organizations drive performance by addressing human capital management issues that affect employees. Next Thursday, May 16at 12noon ET, I’ll be co-hosting a TweetChat with the Institute [...]

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• Employee Happiness Should Not Be An Impossible Task

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  Fortunately or unfortunately, employee engagement is a hot topic.

  Don’t get me wrong, engagement is important. There’s a proven link between engagement, productivity and profits. Companies should want to have engaged employees.

  It’s virtually impossible to have an engaged employee who isn’t happy. So [...]

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• The Reason We Should Under Promise and Over Deliver

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  One of the most frustrating things I deal with are people (and companies) who promise a specific deliverable on a certain date or time – and it just doesn’t happen. They either miss the deadline or forget the information. Or both.

  It makes me appreciate when someone under promises and [...]

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