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Employee Retention

Ten Alternatives to an Involuntary Layoff

by Lynn Dessert
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Reading time: 3 – 4 minutes 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 [...]

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Ten Hallmarks of High Trust Organizations

by Robert Whipple

Reading time: 5 – 8 minutes 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 [...]

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Facing Fears Will Help You Succeed

by Lynn Dessert

Reading time: 3 – 4 minutes 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 [...]

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My Rant: Finger Pointing Hurts Everyone

by Lynn Dessert

Reading time: 3 – 4 minutes 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 [...]

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Why Can’t We All Get Along

by Beth Sears

Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes 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 [...]

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The Price of Short Sightedness

by Lynn Dessert
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Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes 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 [...]

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When Being the Boss is Too Close to Home

by Lynn Dessert
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Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes 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 [...]

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Boss’s Relationship May Cloud Judgement

by Lynn Dessert
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Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes 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 [...]

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It’s the Whole Package!

by Beth Sears

Reading time: 3 – 4 minutes “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 [...]

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Employee Ethics – Does Your Organization Pass the Test?

by Lynn Dessert

Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes Ethical conduct is a topic getting a lot of attention, especially concerning public companies. Some situations involve employees misrepresenting their educational backgrounds and accomplishments or management teams communicating inaccurate financial statements. During an online poll in May 2003, The Business Research Lab asked employees to rate the ethics of [...]

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It Goes Beyond A Degree

by Lynn Dessert

Reading time: 3 – 5 minutes Sitting in your office, you review two pieces of paper. One resume, professionally written is from a new college graduate; the other resume outlines an applicant with five years of relevant work experience from a local firm. What do you do? Is it worth your time and additional payroll [...]

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Do You Know What Your Employees Are Thinking?

by Lynn Dessert
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Reading time: 2 – 2 minutes “My boss doesn’t give me feedback on my performance. I have not had a performance review in over two years.” “Our pay increases last year barely covered the cost of the increase in my insurance premiums. I don’t understand how the company decides how much I should received.”“Morale is [...]

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Are Your Employees The Chicken Or Egg?

by Lynn Dessert
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Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes It is the typical chicken or the egg syndrome – which one comes first? The traditional company focuses on the “customer is king” and then staffs to meet the needs of the organization. After all, the customer brings in the revenue to fund the operation. Right? Consider reversing the [...]

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