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It’s human capital that will drive your productivity, maximize your efficiency, develop new products, and ensure the successful implementation of your strategies.

Keeping the correct balance between the amount of work and available staff can be difficult, considering the fact that most companies experience natural highs and lows in talent demand.

Trickle-down costs affect your whole company.

Many companies are striving to become Employers of Choice–aiming to provide a fulfilling working environment so that talent will choose to work for them.

How does a company recruit a successful, well-educated, highly desirable individual who’s satisfied in their current job? How do you stop losing your best candidates to hiring competitors?

The key is to get every member of your organization, from chemical engineers, to chemists, to accounts payable , etc... all throughout the organization, focused on what drives the customer and how your organization can positively impact the customer’s life.

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With an increasingly diverse workforce, managers have had to dig even deeper to uncover the secrets of how to keep their employees performing at peak levels. Motivating factors can be as diverse as each employee. But the more engaged and productive the workforce is, the greater the impact will be on the company’s bottom line.

Being able to properly assess employee performance can dramatically improve your organization’s performance, save money, and make the workplace a much more enjoyable work environment, too.

The problem with Eddie Haskell’s is that they’re hard to spot. Often they come disguised as perfect candidates. They have the right experience. They say the right things...

Not finding highly qualified candidates or consultants quickly who can perform well on all "six cylinders" to fulfill your specialized project management needs can be very costly.

With so many dynamics to consider, learn the best way to enable you to connect with people and build great relationships, thus ensuring your personal and corporate success!

Avoid catastrophic hiring mistakes by simply learning to listen - mistakes occur when employers hire a resume rather than a person.

Behind every interview question that is being asked, there is another one that the interviewer has foremost on his or her mind - but which will never be asked.

As the job market begins to loosen up, human-resource managers are increasingly surprised by an announcement from employees they haven’t heard in a while: “I quit.”

Careless job offers get organizations into trouble in one of three ways...

Recruiting the quality candidate that an organization requires often is complicated needlessly because the company ignores some fundamental rules.

What to look for and which incentives to use to attract them.

The client-search firm relationship is improved when resources are focused on quality search work, rather than repeated shoot-outs between competing search firms.

Instead of the conventional highs and lows, your organization must be prepared to handle radical, unpredictable changes in human capital needs.

Start thinking about how an effective compensation plan may be the key to jump-starting your staff, increasing performance, and creating a ”buzz” that will make you an employer of choice.

Professionals are not your average employees. They operate under a different set of rules, experiences, and motivational factors—distinct from operations, sales, marketing, finance, and other professional and administrative personnel.

When it comes to human capital, success comes at a price—and that price is measured in the form of attrition.

One of the biggest, yet often overlooked, costs of turnover is knowledge loss—the loss of expertise and experience that cannot be immediately rehired.

How do we avoid costly job transitions, turn the tide and improve retention? A big part of the answer lies in a rather unexpected place: the hiring process.

For executives, the problem with stress occurs when the pressure becomes more dominant than the objective.

While you may not be able to change the personalities of the players on your team, you can take back control. As a manager, you hold the key to keeping the peace.

Think of a performance management system as a tune up for your department—it helps keep everything in check and ensures that all components are running as smoothly and efficiently as possible.

A strategic plan gives a company its direction, helping its leaders navigate the often-treacherous waters of today’s ever-changing marketplace.

The more appropriate name for implementing this tactic is “replacement planning.” While this approach might be an acceptable stop-gap measure, and it may work just fine at lower levels of an organization, it really doesn’t fill the need for true succession planning.

How to make performance reviews not only easier to conduct and more effective, but also a powerful catalyst that dramatically improves communication and spurs company performance.

Here are a few suggestions to keep your head on straight and provide the vision and leadership your organization needs to manage the risks, deal with the uncertainty, and continue to prosper for years to come.

Psychological assessments have been used to determine what characteristics are most commonly noted among successful leaders and can be used for developmental purposes to help managers gain insight, develop their leadership skills, and for selection purposes.

During economic downturns we have had to make some really tough decisions. But now what? I’m sure you have asked yourself, what should you do next?

Employee relationship management is the process of collecting employee data and then using that data to create tailored offerings for compensation, benefits, training, and management.

My experience in management, teaching, and coaching leaders confirms there are two major reasons front-line leaders do not delegate. First, they do not clearly understand the concept of delegation, and second, they do not understand how to delegate.

Every human communication interaction, be it face-toface, written, telephone, or other means, has three critical components...

To realize your vision takes more than great strategy and implementation. You need to create “strategic alignment” to make the strategy an integral part of the very fiber of your organization.

Planning and organizing? Isn’t this just another phrase for time management? Aren’t we as front-line leaders expected to effectively manage our time and the time of our employees? The answer is...yes and no. Yes, front-line leaders are indeed expected to effectively manage both their time and their team’s time. No, planning and organizing is not just another phrase for time management.

Front-line leaders know that training is only appropriate if an employee needs a specific skill or knowledge set that he does not currently possess to successfully fulfill his job. In all other cases, training is not the answer!

Every company (whether great or average or lousy) has a unique DNA, a particular combination of purpose and culture that separates it from any other - the “right stuff” for achieving great results in that company…and just in that company.

Today, in our fast-paced, customer-focused, and increasingly technical world, it takes much more to get a recently hired manager or executive up to speed and ready to “run with the big dogs” so to speak. As a matter of fact, you may as well drop the word “orientation” from your vocabulary and replace it with onboarding.

Problems abound in the trenches. Screaming customers. Irrational employees. Misplaced inventory. Internal politics. Budget cuts. System malfunctions. Those of us who live in the trenches understand that to thrive, even to survive, leaders need solid, powerful problem-solving skills.

Complex factors—ranging from the level of interdependence among members, to contextual conditions in which the team operates—can either enhance or erode team dynamics and its effectiveness.