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According to the National Center for Learning Disabilities, approximately 15 million people have learning disabilities in the United States. Specific Learning Disabilities has been defined as disorders that affect the ability to understand or use spoken or written language, do mathematical ... Views: 1420
Executive Summary
Most organizations have invested extensive labor hours and considerable expense in the creation of competency models. While on-the-job skills and tasks are often the topics of competency discussions, there is another aspect of a strong competency that many HR leaders ... Views: 1420
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Falls Church, Va. — Employers are increasingly being held accountable for their discrimination against employees. A significant number of claims filed with EEOC include job discrimination. For example, 37% of claims include race discrimination and 30% include sex ... Views: 1413
On March 8th, 2016, the whole planet celebrated the International Day of Women. However, one may ask about the reasons that could gear the members of the gentle gender to participate in that precious event.
Did they achieve their objectives of being treated as equals to their male ... Views: 1401
By understanding the different needs, approaches, strengths and weaknesses of each of the Striving Styles, the organization can maximize a team’s effectiveness by harnessing the natural energy that is engaged when individuals can meet their own needs through teamwork.
A team is an integral ... Views: 1398
The job market in many parts of the United States and the world is shifting for the better. I have a number of clients and colleagues who are voluntarily choosing to make a move, often for more money and a better title. It should put all of us who work with and for others on constant ... Views: 1393
Why Air-Writing Doubles Your Long-Term Memory
You have seen kids play the AIR (make-believe) guitar, while listening
to music. Strangely, each time they ACT like performers playing a genuine
guitar – they IMPRINT the music and fingering on their long-term memory.
How come? They are using ... Views: 1388
In my business consulting practice there has been quite the uptick recently of business owners struggling to find the right talent. It sure is tough to start the new year off with a charge when you’re so completely frustrated from the paltry results of your people. It is a painful feeling to ... Views: 1375
Life at call center is always fun for most of the calling agents. But in certain cases it is natural that customers tend to talk in a rough tone that not only make you sick but also act as a factor that gives birth to the communication breakdown process. There are several other factors that ... Views: 1374
EzW2 software is a popular small-business software for compiling and printing forms W-2, W-3, 1099 and 1096. Users can print the forms on IRS-approved red-ink forms, if required, or on plain white paper using a standard laser printer. At just $39 per installation, ezW2 provides an affordable ... Views: 1364
Human resource development professionals are often stymied by their inability to hone their business skills. Like many other experts, they are really good with their product creation but do not attain the results they want within the first few years of operations.
"Building A Career That ... Views: 1353
Turnover, voluntary or forced, is part of the workplace cycle. As in nature, some changes take place a leaf at a time while in other instances a hurricane performs the serious pruning. This article addresses some things you should consider when an employee enters your office and says, “I ... Views: 1349
Why Your Career is Emotionally More Than Earning a Living
It was Thanksgiving Day, the clan gathered at my Mother-in-law’s
home to eat and drink triple (3x) their normal calories, but all is forgiven
because it is a sanctioned feast day. Why? It is a ritual for God, U.S. and the ... Views: 1348
Failure to communicate
Failure in communication is the biggest problem of management. When this occurs, it affects everything. Overall performance of people decreases, goals are not clear, people build incorrect assumptions, and relationships at work suffer. Especially during challenging ... Views: 1346
We are living in the World where changes take place in every hour. We often heard of the things happened here and there through different medias and news paper, magazines ,books and so on by which we are able to learn an important events that had been occurred in the past, and is now happening ... Views: 1345
Working in the consulting, seminar and keynoting business, we receive a good number of calls from clients looking for a "motivational" speaker. I often struggle with that terminology. Very early in my career, I attended a number of programs which featured a "motivational speaker." I was very ... Views: 1341
At the turn of the 19th century, most people in the U.S. worked for themselves as farmers, ranchers, storekeepers, railroad workers, you name it. The entrepreneur wasn’t a position of risk; it was the way of survival for most Americans. Some individuals became extremely successful, people like ... Views: 1329
I came upon a survey by Universum, a global employer branding company. They asked more than 65,000 college students to list what they considered to be the top 250 employers. No surprise Google ranked #1. Consulting companies such as McKinsey, Bain, and Boston Consulting were high on the list as ... Views: 1329
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Recruiting Firm shares not-so-obvious questions to avoid while interviewing a job applicant
“Asking a job applicant an innocent-sounding yet illegal question is a lawsuit waiting to happen,” ... Views: 1324
Human resource information solutions enable the human resource department to concentrate on growth strategies and initiatives, benefit analysis, hiring employees and other productive jobs instead spending time to perform routine and repetitive tasks.
Human resources information system combines ... Views: 1322
You’re looking for a new job. Either you have your eyes on a promotion with your current employer or you’re looking for a new job in a new place. You’ve read the “how to write a killer résumé” books, and you can talk at length about all of your functional responsibilities.
It doesn’t ... Views: 1320
When we think of the brain, many of us imagine this elegant, fine tuned machine with electrical currents firing rapidly as our senses take in and process thousands of pieces of information. Not so much.
David Linden, who wrote The Accidental Mind, calls it a kludge (pronounced klooj). Much ... Views: 1319
Creating your resume is the first step towards getting that well deserved promotion, or landing the perfect job, and it require some special technique like you would need when doing business writing. Career sites often have very handy templates that are designed to help you along when attempting ... Views: 1315
Youth for Human Rights of Tampa Bay, Florida, held its 2nd Annual Human Rights Walkathon at North Straub Park to promote human rights. With over 350 people from all walks of life in attendance it was an all around good time. They were joined by the Red Cross, Florida Coalition Against Human ... Views: 1306
Employment agencies play a major role in promoting the increase of employment rate in the country. Employment is vital both for the industry and the people who need jobs. All companies need workers to execute the core plans of the business so that they can provide jobs for skilled individuals. ... Views: 1305
The high cost of overlooking introverts
What do Albert Einstein, Warren Buffet, Mahatma Gandhi, Charles Darwin and Rosa Parks have in common. They are all leaders who made an impact on their world.
What most people don’t know is that they were all introverts. In today’s corporate ... Views: 1304
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Recruiter Stresses Importance of Employee Recognition Programs
“In a down economy, there is less money to give away in the form of employee bonuses and raises,” points out Ann E. ... Views: 1301
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Executive Summary
Company profits are driven, directly or indirectly, by the performance of
every employee. Performance data for specific positions, carefully selected from
available metrics, can be used to improve each ... Views: 1298
If a company does not fully understand the cost of its human capital, it leaves a large amount of expenses unmanaged. In order to fully understand the cost of human capital, direct and indirect labor costs need to be integrated.
Integrating direct and indirect labor costs creates a more ... Views: 1295
Tax credits can benefit companies in a lot of ways. But as filing for this benefit includes meeting IRS’ requirements, some employers don’t really consider processing for this benefit due to the need for complex procedures. Nonetheless, a WOTC Screening/Processing solution can make the whole ... Views: 1295
All things take on the vibration of how they are used.
I myself have a really hard time trying to comprehend what it would be like, to have thousands or even millions in one’s bank account.
When you know you’re neighbors around the corner or across the waters cannot put food on the table ... Views: 1293
Labels at work
It can be easy as a manager to label people as bad or good performers. This performance labeling tends to be a convenient way to quickly categorize people. It is efficient for human resources. Once labeled, people can be given promotions or demotions, merit or punitive action, ... Views: 1290
Medical credentialing is the process performed to protect the public from substandard and incompetent health care practitioners such as Doctors, physicians, nurses etc. These health care practitioners make errors that ultimately led to problems with patient safety and high quality care. In fact, ... Views: 1289
There is no doubt that our world is moving pretty fast. There are a lot of people feeling a sense of concern, uncertainty and fear both at home and in the work place about the future. It's not hard to understand given what is being reported on the news from around the world. Something is ... Views: 1274
Most nonprofit organizations use volunteers to perform tasks that regular staff members lack the time to do. Also, with an unstable economy, resulting in budget cuts for many organizations, developing and maintaining a volunteer pool is critical to nonprofits. An organized and well executed ... Views: 1272
Whenever any job seeker clicks on your job advert to acquire details regarding the opportunity, it's likely to convert him to an applicant. In the event, if your job posting isn't framed with essential details then an individual will be naturally made to press the back button. There are not many ... Views: 1265
California's Drug Endangered Child Protection Act includes sections on creating a pilot program, coordinating multiagency response teams, preparing an annual report containing data on the number of children found in and removed from meth labs, and distributing funds. These funds are provided ... Views: 1263
I have interviewed potential applicants for a variety of staff positions over the past 20 years. In the nonprofit field, I have found there are certain steps supervisors should take when interviewing potential candidates. My top seven items to consider during the interview process, to ensure ... Views: 1263
Well that’s a question and a half if I may say so myself. I have recently had a discussion with fellow members of various networking groups and this question seems to be cropping it’s head up on a more than regular basis. Let’s look at the question more in depth. What does it actually say or ... Views: 1260
Work or Fun – Do Words Change Minds?
Are you in the business of influencing, persuading and convincing folks to use your
product or service, and not your competitor? We all have a boss, someone to report
to, even if it is the Board of Directors.
Decisions are not mechanical or ... Views: 1254
Outsourcing is often considered to be synonymous with offshore freelancing, but like every other industry, even the outsourcing industry has evolved and grown. Today, while freelancers still control a portion of the outsourcing pie, large chunks of it have been taken over by a completely new ... Views: 1253
In this highly competitive market, finding top talent can be a challenge. Employers are searching for successful recruiting methods to bring in the right employees to grow the business. An employee referral program (ERP) can provide you with great talent and at a low cost.
It does take ... Views: 1246
Conventional Design
Previously, the standard Hydropro design for SWRO with energy recovery incorporated a single multistage centrifugal pump (or positive displacement) with a Hydraulic Turbo Booster. This design is fairly simple and generally does not require a significant increase in system ... Views: 1242
3 Don’ts of 360 Feedback
360 feedback can be an excellent instrument in the hands of trained experts, but 360 feedback essentially is a tool. It’s much like a hammer – a hammer can be used constructively, to build things, but in inexperienced hands it can also be destructive, or even ... Views: 1232
Addressing Workplace Relationships
Where do we get to choose our relationships and where do we have no choice? We get to choose our friends, but not our family or co-workers. Figure that the workplace is one area where a group of random people are plunked down in some sort of space and told ... Views: 1231
In higher educational institutions, communication plays a major role in Performance Management. Institutions are complex communities comprised of multiple layers of players like administration, the faculty and students each with a distinct set of mindset and backgrounds. In order to draw a ... Views: 1226
Which Came First, Speech or Gestures, And So What?
Adults are learners too, so how do we get our point across (comprehension)
without sounding like a dominating school teacher?
If you visit your doctor and he says your x-rays are Benign, you are a lot
happier than if he says the results ... Views: 1226
How Far Can We Go With The Power of Thought?
Do you have to understand the science of electricity, electrons and protons, in order to turn on the lights in your room, your TV or computer? Click the button, throw the switch, or wave your hand, right?
If the public had to pass a test on how ... Views: 1223
Between 2005 and 2011 the number of people working over the internet from home has risen 73% in the US, to more than 3 million people. Working remotely enables employees to live a more adaptable timetable and avoid wasting time travelling to work, while businesses can hire staff without the need ... Views: 1222
In light of the Wal-Mart Supreme Court ruling, Alison Davis, CEO of employee communications consulting firm, Davis & Co., said in an article in Workforce Management that the ruling does not mean business leaders can relax. She has spoken with many business leaders and they see the need for doing ... Views: 1217