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Employee Retention

You have to know the business to know about pay: Part 2

by Lynn Dessert

The second part of our series (read part one here) about evaluating your pay means looking at the big picture. It is rare that a company picks a pay rate out of thin air. There are a number of factors to consider in creating a pay philosophy.
The discussion of competitive pay belongs in top leadership [...]

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Moving from Pawn to Player with the Boss

by Lynn Dessert

Question: I am a Vice President of Sales & Marketing in a niche market with growth potential. I joined the company a little over a year ago. The CEO joined the company about three months ago.
Earlier this year, the organization decided to impose a 20% wage reduction by going to a four-day workweek instead of [...]

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Evaluating a Job Change to Advance Pay

by Lynn Dessert

Question: I work in a large high tech company where several of us have the same job description, but we don’t do the same work. My boss gives me all the difficult assignments and the others receive the more routine work.
When I received my increase this year, I got a 3% raise, while the [...]

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Stress Might be Showing Your Employees the Door

by Lynn Dessert

What do you think are the top 5 reasons why employees voluntarily leave their company? Are the reasons the employees state the same as what the company thinks?
A study reported by HR.BR.com shows a significant difference in the #1 reason employees give for leaving a company vs. what the company believes is the reason for [...]

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Ten Alternatives to an Involuntary Layoff

by Lynn Dessert
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Layoffs in your future? It might appear to be the quickest way to cut costs but Flavio Martins sees things differently.
Permanently cutting benefits and wages may not be the answer either.
It can often lead to major morale problems and spreads quickly through a company. Morale affects work product quality and customer relationships. It may tempt [...]

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Ten Hallmarks of High Trust Organizations

by Robert Whipple

The advantages of working in a high trust environment are evident to everyone from the CEO to the shop floor, from suppliers to customers, and even the competition. Building and maintaining trust within any organization pays off with many benefits. Unfortunately, very few organizations have been able to create an environment of high trust. The [...]

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Facing Fears Will Help You Succeed

by Lynn Dessert

When is the last time you embraced your fears? There are different kinds of fears. Sometimes we fear the unknown, other times we fear what we know or think we know.
When we fear the known, we may have had direct experience with the fear. It is possible we tried to conquer it and failed [...]

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My Rant: Finger Pointing Hurts Everyone

by Lynn Dessert

Please stop the finger pointing. It hurts creditability. And I hate canned answers. OK – now the details.
I use LinkedIn (their blog here) to build new relationships and maintain old ones. It is one venue I use to increase visibility to be a thought provoker or leader and sometimes is in the form of a [...]

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Why Can’t We All Get Along

by Beth Sears

Today’s workplace has many challenges to ‘getting along’ including the demographic shift which has occurred creating multiple generations existing in the workplace. Part of the conflict arises because the diverse generations each have their own set of values, and very different communication styles. This, in conjunction with the high level of stress in most workplaces [...]

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The Price of Short Sightedness

by Lynn Dessert
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If you had to rate your boss today on how well they make decisions in the best interest of the company, consumer and employee, what would be their score on a scale of 1-10? Independent of our economic situation, management may be making decisions that are short sighted; there is too much emphasis on immediate [...]

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When Being the Boss is Too Close to Home

by Lynn Dessert
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Last week, I was called in to help with mediation in a home care situation. In this case, the caregivers are on the payroll of the family. It is an intense and emotional situation as the quality of service provided directly affects the quality of life of the person receiving the care. The mother’s son [...]

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Boss’s Relationship May Cloud Judgement

by Lynn Dessert
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Question: Recently, I went to the big boss about a problem in our group. I felt that someone was being treated unfairly by someone else.
We have a lot of rules to follow in our organization. A new person, Jim, joins our team and he is given the rules to read. A couple of days later, [...]

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It’s the Whole Package!

by Beth Sears

“It Goes Beyond a Degree” brings up a important considerations when we look at an individual to establish whether or not he or she will be an appropriate candidate for a position.Does he or she need a college education or work experience to succeed in the workplace, or is it more than that? A number [...]

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