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Author :: Marcia Zidle  |
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| Article Title :: Selecting Top Talent: Improve Your Batting Average |
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| I recently gave a presentation to a group of business and community leaders on how to select talent to grow their organization. Given the expense associated with recruiting top performers and the high cost of making poor choices, you would think that those responsible for hiring would follow a systematic process that results in high quality hiring.Yet, I am continually amazed, when reviewing staffing practices, how frequently I find the lack of workforce planning, inconsistent procedures, ineffective interviewing, indecision or a quick decision based on gut feel rather than good data. On the other hand, here are twelve best practices for selecting top talent.Do (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Marcia Zidle |
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| Article Title :: Managing Performance: Don’t Let Slackers Bring Down Your “A” Players |
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| As a manager, it is your job to ensure that the work gets done effectively. Coaching and discipline are unpleasant tasks. However, it must be a part of your everyday job duties. Here are some common mistakes managers make in handling poor performers.Ignore the problem.
Count on peer pressure to correct sub-standard performance. This rarely works and the staff grumbles about the ineffective way the issue is being dealt with.Have a group meeting.
Instead of dealing directly with the problem employee, a meeting of the work group is held and standards of performance are repeated with the hope that the slacker will get the hint. This is a waste of time (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Marcia Zidle |
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| Article Title :: Meetings: Don’t Just Show Up, Stand Out and Shine |
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| Meetings, whether they’re regularly scheduled routines in your company or now-and-then get-togethers, can be a place for you to gain positive visibility and to showcase your capabilities. Here are three strategies that will help you stand out and shine.Do your advance work.
In order to make intelligent comments, offer helpful suggestions or ask pertinent questions, you need to know a meeting’s purpose and topic areas in advance. If you have received a vague notice or agenda, inquire about what’s going to be discussed and what are the goals. You can basically say that you want to come ready to contribute.If it’s your supervisor or team leader who is ca (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Rosemary Johnston |
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| Article Title :: Management to the Vision-Contribution and the Role of Compliance |
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| As a manager our role is to:1. Establish the vision, or our contribution to the vision.2. Establish the plan and forecast for our management contribution, be it $1million or $1billion.3. Gain endorsement of the plan and forecast, by the vision holders.4. Manage the plan and reality to the vision-contribution.This is very simple on paper.Assuming we have achieved the first three, let’s focus on the fourth as it is vitally important.Firstly, too many managers make a subtle twist here and manage the deliverables to the plan forgetting that the vision is the ultimate goal! To tweak the plan as we go, means we may readily exceed our contribut (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Anne Thornley-Brown |
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| Article Title :: Talent Recruitment Challenges of High Technology Companies |
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| As a result of the dot com meltdown and the decline of the NASDAQ in 2001, many organizations had no alternatives but to lay off many talented IT professionals. Currently, the pool of available talent in the labour market is large. Over the long haul, the impact of shifting population demographics on the labour pool will be staggering. As the baby boom generation continues to age, we can expect acute labour shortages similar to the ones we experienced in the high technology sector during the dot com boom. While there is still a surplus of talent in the market, it is important for organizations to take proactive steps to attract the brightest and the best and thereby fuel their organizatio (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Kal Bishop |
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| Article Title :: Innovation Management – changing the world! |
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| Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation whilst innovation can be defined as idea selection, development and commercialisation.There are distinct processes that enhance problem identification and idea generation and, similarly, distinct processes that enhance idea selection, development and commercialisation. Whilst there is no sure fire route to commercial success, these processes improve the probability that good ideas will be generated and selected and that investment in developing and commercialising those ideas will not be wasted.However, all too often the concept of innovation is intricately linked with radical change. In fact, the opposi (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Kal Bishop |
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| Article Title :: Innovation Management – forced into it! |
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| Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation whilst innovation can be defined as idea selection, development and commercialisation.There are distinct processes that enhance problem identification and idea generation and, similarly, distinct processes that enhance idea selection, development and commercialisation. Whilst there is no sure fire route to commercial success, these processes improve the probability that good ideas will be generated and selected and that investment in developing and commercialising those ideas will not be wasted.Whilst there is a lot of lip service given to innovation, the reality is that it often results from competitors (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Kal Bishop |
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| Article Title :: Innovation Management – the power of decision makers |
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| Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation whilst innovation can be defined as idea selection, development and commercialisation.There are distinct processes that enhance problem identification and idea generation and, similarly, distinct processes that enhance idea selection, development and commercialisation. Whilst there is no sure fire route to commercial success, these processes improve the probability that good ideas will be generated and selected and that investment in developing and commercialising those ideas will not be wasted.One of the most important aspects of creativity and innovation is access to decision makers. One of the fastest (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Martin Haworth |
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| Article Title :: Motivating Employees - Ten Ways to Start You Off |
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| Yet there is a place for those external 'raft-build's', 'away days' and 'paintballing'! Just get them in context; there is work to do up front to leverage those experiences and get the best value from them. Just build great relationships in your business or organisation, one-to-one - then have the fun day out and grow even more!"Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular top ups."Peter DaviesSo a 'people-focused' way of being in your business generates Motivation permanently and ongoing.Start at the BeginningYou can' (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Kal Bishop |
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| Article Title :: Innovation Management: The Power of Emotional Attachment |
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| Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation whilst innovation can be defined as idea selection, development and commercialisation.There are distinct processes that enhance problem identification and idea generation and, similarly, distinct processes that enhance idea selection, development and commercialisation. Whilst there is no sure fire route to commercial success, these processes improve the probability that good ideas will be generated and selected and that investment in developing and commercialising those ideas will not be wasted.The mere definition of innovation implies a break from the past, something new. However, one of the crucial asp (read full article) |
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