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Promoting Truth Telling: Proven Tips for Developing A Customer-Satisfying Staff By : Dr. Millard "Mac" MacAdam High integrity, truth-telling staff members contribute to your bottom line because they more consistently satisfy your customers. Truth telling creates the critical trust needed to enhance the productivity of your staff members and the loyalty of your valued customers. Read on to discover six tips you can use to gain and maintain the best, truth-telling staff possible. Five Tips for Selecting an HR Consultant By : Mary Gormandy White, M.A., SPHR Is HR not your area of expertise? Do you need a professional HR consultant to help you set up policies and procedures that are practical and compliant with state and federal law? Here are five tips that can help you choose someone with the expertise that you really need. Helping Your Employees Gain and Maintain Healthy Consciences By : Dr. Millard "Mac" MacAdam Do you know what to do to help your employees enhance their consciences and boost their productivity and contribution to your company? Read on and you'll discover some key insights into what causes people's consciences to self destruct. You'll also learn what you can do to help them gain and maintain healthy consciences and optimum productivity. Designing Performance-Enhancing Training Programs By : Dr. Millard "Mac" MacAdam Ever been disappointed when your employees return to work after attending a workshop, seminar or conference and then don't perform or produce any better than before? Ever wonder why you are spending money on the training and development when it isn't working? It doesn't have to be this way if you follow the advice in this article. There are proven principles for designing results-producing learning programs for adults. Read on to discover what they are! The Question of Accountability By : G. J. Miller Human Capital is the only asset that has the potential to appreciate in value whereas most assets depreciate over time. There two key groups that impact the value of your people and both must be business savvy in order to understand how to leverage this asset for the best results possible. They are Managers and Human Resource Professionals. Achieving Organization Effectiveness By : G. J. Miller Finance professionals will put numbers together that will help you measure results against goals on an annual basis. But if the organization considers only financial metrics such as revenue and profit without being proactive on the people side it may never get there. I think of an organization in the same way a doctor looks at the human body. The symptom (or indicator) is rarely the real issue. Keeping Your Top Staff In A Tough Economy By : Dr. Millard "Mac" MacAdam Concerned over keeping your top staff members on board during a tough economy? Doing the right things right to honor your top performers will keep them loyal and hanging in with you in tough financial times. Read on to discover my top ten picks for doing it! Go Green - Find More Talent By : G. J. Miller Conservation…Being ‘green’ means many things to many businesses depending on the industry they are in and there are many large corporations, and some smaller, that are well on their way to green right now. But did you know there is a way to do this in order to find a whole new candidate pool? Employee Wages Becoming More Affordable By : bobmiller Software tracking has allowed companies to avoid high employee wages by tracking their employee hours properly. Managing Time And Attendance By : bobmiller Time management is altering the way companies run their businesses, saving corporations millions along the way in efficient timing. Employee Time Tracking Systems and Management By : bobmiller Employee time tracking doesn't need to be difficult, with an easy-to-use, web-based telephone timekeeping system. A highly effective employee time tracking system is almost essential Common myths about headhunters By : Gregory Martinez When people talk about headhunters, you often hear them referred to in rather snippy tones "a necessary evil"... is it really that way? Tracking Employee Hours Efficiently By : bobmiller Tracking employees hours is vital to making sure your business saves money. Precisely tracking employee payroll By : bobmiller Time attendance systems in the past were outdated methods of sign in sheets, today, it is a smart software online which tracks precisely when employees punch in and out. Modernized Payroll Time Clocks By : bobmiller Are you considering saving money on employee payrolls? Find out how to be more efficient and track their work hours precisely. You've Got To Move It, Move It By : HR ConsultLine While it is true there are a lot of people looking for employment, employers need to consider that this works against them if they are slow to act. In this economy, people are less interested in finding the 'perfect' job and more interested in paying the bills. You might have a great company and be a super manager but "You’ve got to move it, move it...." Whose Job Is It? By : HR ConsultLine An extract from a global survey of senior leaders* found nearly 70% of executives do not believe there is sufficient leadership potential within their organization. This gave me pause for thought and reminded me of the many scenarios that can sink the proverbial leadership development ship. The big question is whose job do they think it is? It is your Resume or your Obituary? By : Patrick T Malone I know you. You are a business friend or associate who has recently found themselves in the job market. I know you are a professional who has an array of competencies than have produced good results in the past and have the desired skills or abilities to produce more excellent results in the future. You should have companies competing for your services except you made one mistake. You sent them your obituary and called it a resume! Attracting Passionate Employees By : James R. Lucas, Ph.D. Do you feel like it’s really hard to find great people? And after you find them, to keep them? Great people–people who are passionate about what you do and about their own contribution, and who have the ability to add value–have always been hard to find and keep. They have the most options, they’re the most in demand, and they know it. They are first rate and don’t have to accept a second-rate situation. This article will give you the basics on how to attract these in-demand individuals. THE TOP FIVE THINGS YOU CAN DO TO MAKE COMPENSATION A DEMOTIVATOR By : HR ConsultLine IS PAY REALLY A MOTIVATOR? The simple answer is yes and no. It is a motivator only if your strategy is solid and applied consistently. It is a de-motivator if organization practice is described in one or more of the top 5. But the reality is much more complex. A Management Challenge: How to Enhance Average Performance By : Patrick T Malone Average performers are usually an overlooked resource for increasing work quality and/or quantity. It is all too easy to pay attention only to performance extremes. Top performers have built-in rewards. Their performance at the top of the charts makes it easy to provide meaningful and specific feedback. Performance problems at the other end of the spectrum also demand attention. When performance is clearly below target, it is visible to almost everyone involved in the effort... WHY DOES AN EMPLOYER NEED DOCUMENTATION WHEN TERMINATING AT-WILL EMPLOYEES? By : Melissa Fleischer, Esq. One question that managers often have is why they need to worry about documentation when terminating employees since everyone is an employee-at-will. This article explains what employment-at-will is and why employers need to be so careful when terminating employees to prevent both discrimination lawsuits as well as breach of implied contract claims. An important article submitted by experienced employment attorney, Melissa Fleischer, Esq., that small business owners will not want to miss. Employee Recognition Programs By : Doctor Derrick When developing employee recognition programs, employer will benefit from a transformation process that takes into consideration organizational demographics and the continuous changing organizational needs 3 Common Event Staffing Mistakes and How to Avoid Them By : Andrew Loos How to integrate back up staff, robust training and relevant brand experience to make sure your staff is ready for your event. Science of Staffing: How to Retain Quality Staff By : Christian Jurinka 8 Ways to keep the staff you want to keep. The Strategic and Business Plans are ready … What now? The missing link By : HR ConsultLine Like many organizations, yours has spent considerable time developing a strategic plan for the next 2-3 years or updating an existing one. If your plans or direction has changed or will change then you may have missed a key step. What could that be? 2010; Getting Past 2009 and Working Smarter Going Forward By : HR ConsultLine Working smarter going forward: How we can focus on growth and revenue that will allow our businesses to increase and decrease staff levels in a socially conscious and fiscally responsible way? Detect and Respond: the new business reality By : HR ConsultLine Speed and agility are the name of the game if you want to beat your competitors or stay out front. The key to instilling speed and agility into an organization lies with its leaders. How do they make decisions? Hiring Outsourced Services; What to look for By : HR ConsultLine Once you have determined you need some expert help managing your business it will be important to find the right one! But there will likely be a number of service providers in the fields you seek. Me, Myself and I; Can you do it all? By : HR ConsultLine Now you have your own business. Whether you have developed a product that you sell or you sell services, you are the business. What does that mean? How to make every day decisions you can live with! By : HR ConsultLine Decisions can be simple or difficult, seemingly insignificant or critical and we make them because we need to or because someone is paying us to do so. But why do some feel more right than others?