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The ROI of Your Labor Force: Optimize Your Most Important Asset
Posted by in FREE!, human resources on March 3, 2010
The workforce is more than the aggregate of all employees—the workforce is the engine of operations. As your largest single controllable expense and largest driver for value creation, your workforce as a whole must be managed optimally. This workforce optimization provides the two key ingredients of strategic HR. It provides the real-time labor input for core HR efforts, while also producing the measurable business impact that HR needs to deliver. Leading HR organizations have driven real returns by extending their reach to the front lines of people processes. As investors increasingly scrutinize measures like profit per employee and labor cost as a percentage of revenue, the need for HR to measure its business impact in dollars has never been more intense. Request Free!
How DARE He Pan My Perfect Phrases Book!
Posted by Robert Bacal in Managing and Organizations, Performance Management and Appraisal, Robert's Editorials, human resources on February 17, 2010
I don’t know this guy. I do know that on April 1, 2009, (that IS April Fools Day) Tom Roche wrote what would have been a scathing review of my book, Perfect Phrases For Performance Reviews, if only he had actually read the book. I have to admit dismay and amusement at people who can’t [...]
3 Ways to Overcome an Organizational Crisis
Posted by in FREE!, human resources on February 13, 2010
Numerous memos but no communication. Inconsistent and reactive leadership. Crisis following crisis with no relief in sight. Does that scenario sound all-too-familiar? If so, there is hope – and help. Discover the three tools that pulled the Margaret George School from the brink of collapse and transformed it in less than a year into one of the “Best Places to Work” with: Improved management and staff communications. Streamlined day-to-day operations. Consistent, constructive employee performance feedback. Renewed vision and corporate direction. If your company is struggling with stress, inefficiency, and frustration, “3 Ways to Overcome an Organizational Crisis” is your guide to positive change! Download your copy today! Request Free!
Transforming Employee Performance Through Effective Feedback
Posted by in FREE!, human resources on February 13, 2010
Employee performance feedback. It’s supposed to be the foundation for performance, initiative, motivation, growth, and success. Too often, however, it backfires: producing decreased performance, damaged relationships, and lowered morale. Why? “Transforming Employee Performance Through Effective Feedback” exposes the 8 most common mistakes leaders, executives, managers, and supervisors make when giving employee performance feedback. It then goes on to reveal: A proven six-step method for producing positive performance. The single most deadly word you can use with an employee. How to collaborate effectively with your employees to see change happen. The secret to keeping your key employees working at maximum productivity. … and that’s just the beginning! If you want to turn your staff into a team of all-star performers, “Transforming Employee Performance Through Effective Feedback” is for you! Request Free!
Discover How Time and Attendance Systems Can Help Organize Your Employee’s Time and Save Your Business Money
Posted by in FREE!, human resources on February 10, 2010
Keeping track of 15 employees is hard enough, let alone 500. Time and attendance systems are a cheap and effective way to manage your staff. These time clocks are small enough to be credit card machines but capable of doing much more – all with wallet sized cards that can fit in an employee’s wallet. Monitoring hours can be done easily and efficiently from each employee’s own computer, where a simple IP address can help monitor who punches in and out, from remote locations as well as from authorized cell phones. The “Around the Clock” guide also comes with price quotes from pre-screened and quality vendors. Request Free!
Discover How to Save on Payroll: Find a Low Cost Payroll Solution for Your Business Needs
Posted by in FREE!, human resources on February 10, 2010
From Fortune-500 companies to work-from-home entrepreneurs, balancing everyone’s hours as well as their pay should be the last thing keeping you from sleep. Outsourcing your HR can not only guarantee your employees are paid on time, but also ensure that benefits, vacation hours, and all the other intangibles of employment never slip through the cracks. This step-by-step guide offers you answers, tips, and tricks – as well as their no-obligation Payroll Service price quotes from their pre-screened and industry-certified vendors. Request Free!
5 Top HR Modules for ERP Systems
Posted by in FREE!, human resources on February 10, 2010
New Enterprise Resource Planning solutions do it all! Automate payroll, FSA, scheduling and compensation, even manage complex HR management initiatives on a global scale. Boost your HR task and cost efficiencies. Included in this informative brief is: Expert insights from industry experts, clients and vendors Side-by-side ERP vendor comparison Details on new HR talent management, automated admin, global capabilities And much more… Register now for the 5 Top HR Modules for ERP Systems and you’ll also get Focus’ Midmarket ERP Solutions Buyer’s and Comparison Guides in the complete ERP Requirements Toolkit . Request Free!
What’s Working in Human Resources
Posted by in FREE!, human resources on February 7, 2010
Qualify for Your Risk-Free Trial Issues Now! Try two issues of What’s Working in Human Resources – Risk Free! The twice monthly, eight-page newsletter covers critical human resource issues like effective recruiting techniques and the latest trends in training, development and employee motivation. It offers real-world examples of how companies cope with the bottom-line pressures in the American workplace while still doing what’s right for their people. In every issue, top HR experts show you how to better manage your company’s human assets and increase profitability. Subscribe to What’s Working in Human Resources and you’ll receive two risk-free issues to review. If you decide to continue, you’ll pay just $299 for an annual subscription (23 issues total). If not, just mark the invoice “cancel” within sixty days and return it to Progressive Business Publications – no questions asked. Request Free!
Employee Engagement – The Mad Fad of the 2000’s – A Poor Construct
Posted by Robert Bacal in Managing and Organizations, Performance Management and Appraisal, Research, Robert's Editorials, Site News, human resources on February 1, 2010
A colleague asked me where one could find criticisms of Employee Engagement, the buzzterm championed by marketplace monster, Gallup. There’s tons of stuff about it pushing it and making it appear to be as vital and important as…well, let’s see, Total Quality Management, Quality Circles, Employee Empowerment, and on and on.
There is very little PUBLICLY [...]
Learning “In The Gaps” and On The Go – Using Dead Time
Posted by Robert Bacal in Training & Technology, Training Tools & Techniques, human resources on January 29, 2010
We live in a waiting society. Wait at the doctor. Wait in line at the supermarket. Always waiting in a fast paced demanding world. Technology is giving us a leg up on using that dead time to learn something, and we’re jumping aboard the mobile learning train.
With the advent of smartphones, PDA’S and other reading [...]
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