QuickTips Index

Top 15 Characterstics of a Successful Mentor
These are the characteristics to seek in employees who are asked to or assigned to formally mentor new employees or employees who are new to a department or job. The required characteristics will differ somewhat in an informal mentor relationship that develops casually between two individuals. These are key for a successful mentor.

Job Specification Sample: Human Resources Director
This sample job specification for a human resources director provides an example of a job specification. See a sample job specification for a human resources director that describes education, experience, characteristics, skills, knowledge, and an overview of the job requirements.

Job Specification Sample: Marketing Manager
This sample job specification for a marketing manager provides an example of a job specification. See this sample job specification for a marketing manager.

Sample New Employee Introduction
This sample new employee introduction letter welcomes the new employee and introduces the new employee to his or her new coworkers. A nice touch for the employee introduction to the company is to schedule an informal time, with food and drinks, for coworkers to greet the new employee.

Become a Better Business Presenter - Almost Instantly
Have you ever felt like a rock star? Even just for a minute? It's a heady experience and it feels as if the moon and stars were perfectly aligned to support the successful moment. If you make business presentations, speak to groups, or provide training classes, you may have experienced speaking moments when all of the pieces came together seamlessly. These business presentation skills tips will help you develop business presentation skills - and perhaps, experience your rock star moment, too.

Key Points About Open Enrollment for Benefits
To get the most out of the open enrollment and their benefits, employees must fully understand the benefits their employer provides. To understand, they need to participate in the employer’s benefits education program which often occurs during the open enrollment time period. Information meetings by insurance professionals and comprehensive enrollment materials are key to providing employees the support they need to make informed benefit decisions. Find out about open enrollment.

Role of Team Commitment in Team Building
Commitment of team members to work together effectively to accomplish the goals of the team is a critical factor in team success. The relationships team members develop out of this commitment are key in team building and team success. Find out more about the role of team commitment in team building.

Team Culture and Context
Clear performance expectations are a critical factor in teamwork success. Whether your goal is to develop a project team, your departmental team, or a sense of teamwork company-wide, clear performance expectations support teamwork success. Use clear performance expectations to help your employees develop accountable, productive, meaningful, participatory teamwork.

What's the Big Deal About Clear Performance Expectations?
Clear performance expectations are a critical factor in teamwork success. Whether your goal is to develop a project team, your departmental team, or a sense of teamwork company-wide, clear performance expectations support teamwork success. Use clear performance expectations to help your employees develop accountable, productive, meaningful, participatory teamwork.

Team Building and Delegation
Employee involvement is creating an environment in which people have an impact on decisions and actions that affect their jobs. Team building occurs when the manager knows when to tell, sell, consult, join, or delegate to staff. For employee involvement and empowerment, both team building and delegation rule.

Non Compete Agreement
A non compete agreement is a written legal contract between an employer and employee. The non compete agreement lays out binding terms and conditions about the employee’s ability to work in the same industry and with competing organizations upon employment termination from the current employer. Generally, the non-compete agreement states that the employee may not work for a competing firm for six months to two years following employment ending.

Biography
This is the biography of Kenneth W. Moore who is the President of Ken Moore Associates. He specializes in quantitative strategic business and organizational development leading to improved corporate performance.

George Bradt Biography
George Bradt is the Managing Director of PrimeGenesis, an executive onboarding and transition acceleration consulting group. He has a unique perspective on transformational leadership based on his combined senior line management and consulting experience.

How to Deal With a Bully at Work
Think you work with a bully? Do you regularly feel intimidated, dread to work anywhere near a particular coworker, or you’re yelled at, insulted, and put down? Does a coworker talk over you at meetings, criticize your performance, or steal credit for your work? If you answer yes to any of these questions, the chances are good that you’re one of 54 million Americans, 37% of the workforce, who have been attacked by a bully at work.

How to Manage Gossip
Gossip is rampant in most workplaces. Sometimes, it seems as if people have nothing better to do than gossip about each other. They gossip about the company, their coworkers, and their managers. You can expect a certain amount of gossip in a work place and if you manage the gossip, it won't get out-of-hand. Here are tips to manage gossip when gossip gets out-of-hand.

Recognition or Entitlement?
What makes reward and recognition memorable and not an entitlement for employees? The element of surprise is big for effective reward and recognition. Impromptu rewards and recognition work to your advantage. Expected rewards can become entitlements, and as such, lose their ability to reward and recognize. An entitlement is any reward or recognition that is expected. Find out more.

Why Organizations Do Employee Performance Evaluation
Interested in why organizations do employee performance evaluation? Employee performance evaluation is both an evaluative process and a communication tool. Done traditionally, employee performance evaluation is universally disliked by supervisors and employees.

Sample Welcome Letter
Here's a simple, sample welcome letter for new employees. This sample welcome letter serves just one purpose. You are welcoming your new employee to your organization.

Create a Motivating Workplace
If you can't motivate people directly, what can you do to create a motivating workplace? Identify the factors that employees find motivating and make sure your work environment supports them. Think about what makes a workplace motivating for you as one source for answers to this question. Don't assume, however, that every employee shares the same needs in a motivating workplace.

WARN Act Requirements
The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN Act) offers: "protection to workers, their families and communities by requiring employers to provide notice 60 days in advance of covered plant closings and covered mass layoffs. This notice must be provided to either affected workers or their representatives (e.g., a labor union); to the State dislocated worker unit; and to the appropriate unit of local government." The WARN Act requires 60 days notice to stakeholders.

Employee and Applicant Accommodation Under ADA
A recent article about disability awareness and the ADA sparked some serious questions about how far an employer needs to go with accommodation for an applicant or an employee with a disability. One in six Americans has some form of disability and many of them are hidden. With this in mind, accommodating employees with a disability is common. Good employers are committed to keeping valued employees working. And, employers who value their employees will gladly help with an accommodation.

Wendy Nice-Barnes Biography
Wendy Nice-Barnes is the author of Make Their Day! Employee Recognition That Works.

Cindy Ventrice Biography
Cindy Ventrice is the author of Make Their Day! Employee Recognition That Works.

Make Their Day! Employee Recognition That Works
This is an excerpt from the fully-revised and expanded second edition of Make Their Day! Employee Recognition That Works (Berrett-Koehler May 2009). The book is written for managers. This chapter focuses on how Human Resources can help managers provide the best possible recognition for employees.

Mary Vonnegut Biography
Mary Vonnegut is a partner in the executive onboarding and transition acceleration group PrimeGenesis. Since its inception in 2002, PrimeGenesis has been able to reduce the risk of failure fourfold for executives they have worked with - from 40% to 10% through a single-minded focus on driving them and their teams to deliver better results faster over their first 100-days.