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Articles from 2002			Top

12/20/02 - How to Gift the Boss or a Special Co-worker
It’s an age-old dilemma and it comes up several times each year. What do you do for that special boss or co-worker on their birthday, their company anniversary, their engagement, the birth of their child, or to celebrate the holiday season. Gift-giving occasions are endless – and endlessly challenging. UPDATED.

12/13/02 - Best Practices in Interviewing
You want to interview potential staff and effectively select the people who best fit your organization's needs. To do this, your interview process, interview questions, and interview exchanges must be legal, ethical, and not offer assurances that potential staff can interpret as promises. Want to know more about interviews?

12/06/02 - About and Primedia Diversity and Multiculturalism Special
With an emphasis on the special skills, strengths, wisdom, and differences that each person brings to the workplace, this About - Primedia Special Report about diversity and multiculturalism celebrates our differences and our similarities.

12/01/02 - What's New for December, 2002?
Take a look at the resources that have been added to the site for December. Comprehensive topic development continues along with indexes and a FAQ that will help you find everything you need. A special note for you that highlights the month's opportunities is here as well. Happy December.

11/30/02 - Top Ten Human Resources Management Books for Small Business
Looking for recommended small business Human Resources books that will help your small business start Human Resources programs, processes, and systems that are legal and helpful from the beginning? Take a look at these books which help you address your small business Human Resources issues with wisdom and excellence. They'll bring you great success with your employees.

11/23/02 - Top Ten Audio Books About Management for Road Warriors
Do you commute? Travel between offices? Drive to clients or customers? If so, forget talk radio and listening to music and news. These audio books about business management for the Human Resources road warrior will help you learn while you travel. Listen to business, management, and Human Resources audio books on tape. Unabridged where available.

11/16/02 - Top Ten Management Books for the Human Resources Book Shelf
Certain business and management books belong on the book shelves of every Human Resources office. These are the Human Resources books you'll reference repeatedly. When managers seek your help to deal with problems or opportunities, you'll share or recommend these business and management books. Some are old, some new, but all are worth your reading and book review time. We begin a series.

11/09/02 - Top Ten Human Resources Books for Human Resources Staff
Building a foundation library for you and your Human Resources staff? These book reviews will help you select the core Human Resources, business, and management books critical to your reference collection. Find the information you need fast with these recommended Human resources, business, and management books. These book reviews will save you research time. Check them out.

11/02/02 - Ten Recommendations for the Welcoming HR Office
You’ve heard the term, "dress for success," applied to clothing people wear to work. Let’s apply the same concept to your office. Certain items are “musts” for a well-dressed, welcoming environment for people. Is your office complete without these?

10/25/02 - Create a Very, Merry Holiday Season: Tips for a Stress-free Holiday Season
You can have a stress-free holiday season if you do four things right. Keep your expectations rational, take care of yourself, take control of your time and limit your commitments, and embrace your family and friends. Want to know more?

10/16/02 - Downsizing With Dignity
Downsizing (or redundancy) is a toxic solution. Used sparingly and with planning it can be an organizational lifesaver, but when used repeatedly, without a thoughtful strategy, it can destroy an organization's effectiveness. How you treat people really matters. Learn more.

10/12/02 - Performance Management Special
Check here first for all the information you need to establish an effective, people-oriented performance management system in your organization. Retain your top talent and accomplish your organization's goals with your performance management system. Find out how.

10/09/02 - You Get What You Request and Reward
Performance management encompasses the important people issues in your organization. Performance management includes the entire relationship you have with the people you employ. Performance management is a whole work system that begins when you define a job. Learn more.

10/02/02 - All You Have Is Your Integrity: Why Leave It to Chance?
Everyone knows right from wrong. Right? Wrong. That's why business ethics is currently on the media front page. When daily, the next Enron story hits the wires, you ignore business ethics issues at your peril. Don't leave business ethics to chance.

09/25/02 - You Can Make Their Day: Ten Tips for the Leader About Building Employee Motivation and Morale
You can make their day or break their day. Your choice. No kidding. Other than the decisions individuals make on their own about liking their work, you are the most powerful factor in employee motivation and morale. Learn ten tips for creating a workplace with high employee motivation and morale.

09/18/02 - Your 401(k) Plan is a Recruiting Magnet
Competitive base pay, medical insurance and a 401(k) plan are the must have benefits necessary to attract and keep talent in your company. This makes your 401(k) and other retirement benefits cornerstones for your Human Resources recruitment and retention strategy. Do you know everything you need to know to serve as the "go-to" source for this information?

09/11/02 - Celebrate Life: Workplace Remembrance of September 11
People in workplaces around the world will remember September 11, 2001 as a day of tragedy, sorrow, remembrance, honor, and celebration. To commemorate September 11, while there is much to mourn and memorialize, there is also much to honor and celebrate. To appropriately honor the individuals, families, and workplaces affected, your remembrance must provide the opportunity for both mourning and for celebration. Find out more.

09/02/02 - Celebrate Labor Day
People work for many reasons including love, money, and creating a successful future. Celebrate Labor Day with our special resource about Labor Day, labor unions, compensation, salary, bonuses, benefits, and more.

08/30/02 - What People Want From Work
Some people work for love; others work for personal fulfillment. Others like to accomplish goals and feel as if they are contributing to something larger than themselves, something important. Whatever your personal reasons for working, the bottom line, however, is that almost everyone works for money. Find out the latest thinking and research about what people want from their work.

08/25/02 - Performance Consulting, Measurement, and Improvement Books
Effective performance consulting and training can provide big payoffs for the employer in increased staff productivity, knowledge, loyalty, and contribution. These resources increase your ability to do performance consulting, measure performance improvement, and provide resultant training using internal staff. Increase your self-sufficiency in performance consulting and improvement.

08/18/02 - Working With People at Work Tip 2: Manage Competing Conversations
Want to develop effective working relationships with people at work? Effective interaction by people in business meetings can create effective work relationships. Effective group meetings manage the interaction of difficult people holding competing conversations.

08/11/02 - Working With People at Work Tip 1: Just Like Me: Search for Similarities
Want to develop effective working relationships with people at work? Start with similarities, not differences, among people when you build relationships. As a human resources professional, manager, supervisor, co-worker, staff member or business owner, effective work relationships are critical for your success.

08/04/02 - Why an Effective Job Description Makes Good Business Sense
The job description is a communication tool significant for your organization's success. A poorly-written job description creates workplace confusion, hurts communication, and makes people feel as if they don't know what is expected from them. Read words of wisdom and warning about job descriptions.

07/25/02 - Top 8 Business and Management Book Reviews: Must-Do Reading
These business books are my current favorites for managers, supervisors, and Human Resources professionals. Management topics are often boring; these books offer new and useful ideas in a readable format. These books won't put you to sleep. I promise! These book reviews tell you why.

07/17/02 - The Time of Your Life: Top 10 Time Management and Productivity Tools
Take a look at these top ten time management and productivity enhancement tools. From my Palm and its keyboard to my favorite, current, stress-free productivity boosting book, you'll get ideas that will help you best use the time of your life, too.

07/10/02 - Fight for What's Right: Ten Tips to Encourage Meaningful Conflict
Conflict avoidance is most frequently the topic when conflict in organizations is discussed. Conflict resolution - as quickly as possible - is the second most frequent topic. This is bad news because meaningful conflict is a cornerstone in healthy, successful organizations. These tips will help you initiate and encourage positive conflict.

07/03/02 - Recruiting and Retention Special
Finding the best possible people who can fit within your culture and contribute within your organization is a challenge and an opportunity. Keeping the best people, once you find them, is easy if you do the right things right. Take a look at the helpful features in the Primedia/About Industry and Business Recruiting and Retention Special.

06/26/02 - Top Ten Recruiting Tips
Recruiting ideas, facts, and myths permeate the hiring field. Check out these tips for some of the best recruiting and hiring practices. They're research-based and recommended to you for hiring great employees.

06/19/02 - Why You Really Ought to Want to Love Your Work
Are you working more, enjoying it less, and dreading the time you spend most days at your work place? If you answered "yes" to this question, take time this summer to explore your current career choice and consider all of the other options life has to offer. You spend a substantial portion of your life at work. Why not make that time as professionally and personally rewarding and fulfilling as possible?

06/12/02 - What's New at About Human Resources?
Frequent visitors will want to bookmark this page to quickly link to new and exciting content on the About HR site. Want to know what's new and worth your reading time? Learn what Susan's reading here. Check here first for new articles, products, and recommendations.

06/05/02 - Top 10 Books for Job Seekers and Career Changers
Thinking about your current job search or a career change? For dads, grads and others, these books will help you find your way. Learn about the job market. Translate your most important needs, interests, and goals into a rewarding career. Find techniques for a successful job search. These are my long term favorites. Gift a favorite person with the opportunity to explore their desired future.

05/26/02 - About Industry and Business Training Special
Visit the About Industry and Business Training Special for up-to-the-minute human resources and business information about how to make training and new employee orientation effective in your organization. View links to the best training sites on the Web.

05/19/02 - Training: Your Investment in People Development and Retention
The right employee training, development and education at the right time provides big payoffs for the employer in increased productivity, knowledge, loyalty, and contribution. Learn the approaches that will guarantee a return on your investment.

05/12/02 - The Best of Effective Networking for Professional Success
What propels your career success whether you are self-employed or work for others? Networking with as many people as possible. Your business success is a result of the power, reach and depth of the relationships you cultivate. Want to know more?

05/05/02 - People Power Your Small Business
Your small business has unique people opportunities and challenges. Some are unique to small business. Others, you share with organizations of any size. The good news? Best practices exist. Proven solutions to the troublesome issues you face with your human resources programs, policies, and approaches are available. I'll highlight some of the most important time investments and solutions for the small organization. These also apply to start-ups, and provide a basic HR framework for any business.

04/28/02 - Top 6 Work-Life Balance Books: Your Family-Friendly Future
Spring is the season for Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and Family Support Month. Concurrently, work-life balance is a hot issue in the HR field. Searching for ideas and examples of innovative approaches to recruiting and retaining employees? Start here.

04/21/02 - Employee Orientation: Keeping New Employees on Board
New Employee Orientation is a critical factor in helping a new person develop a productive, lasting relationship with your organization. Here are tips, tools, and examples for people orientation processes that promote longevity and loyalty.

04/14/02 - Top Picks: Reward, Recognition, Award, and Thank You Ideas
Looking for convenient, appreciated, reasonably cost-conscious ways to reward, recognize, demonstrate your appreciation, award, and say "thank you" for contributions that people make at work? These ideas will help.

04/07/02 - The Power of Positive Recognition
Prioritize recognition for people and you can ensure a positive, productive organization. Belief that recognition is positive is common among employers even if not commonly carried out. Why is recognition so closely guarded in many organizations? Here are tips to help you recognize people more often.

03/22/02 - Tips for Managing Stress and Change at Work
Stress is normal. You need some stress to perform your best. The key for management? Determine the right amount of stress that will give you energy, ambition, and enthusiasm versus the wrong amount which can harm your well-being. Here are five tips.

03/10/02 - Use Performance Management to Help People Succeed and Improve
Are you fed up with the return on investment you experience with your current performance appraisal? Ready to change your approach? You can improve productivity, motivation, and morale by handling performance management and development in new ways.

03/03/02 - Fun and the Bottom Line: Using Humor to Retain Employees
As more organizations reengineer, merge, downsize, and even capsize, employees confront uncertainty daily. The rules keep changing and since most have little control over the rules, the result is often a sense of powerlessness. This translates into increased stress, decreased wellness, demoralization, absenteeism, and lower productivity. Humor could be the cure.

02/24/02 - Use Your Team for Recruitment: A Retention Strategy
How would you like to increase your candidate selection pool, add value to interviews, heighten employee loyalty, build supportive peer relationships, and improve retention rates simultaneously? By implementing a team recruitment strategy, you can achieve this. Find out how.

02/21/02 - Creating High Morale Workplaces
Are you interested in resources that will help you create a work environment that fosters high staff morale, productivity and motivation? Start here to retain your best employees and create the work environment in which they will thrive.

02/14/02 - Manage Your HR Career
Are you mid-career and wondering what's next? Are you deciding whether HR is the career for you? Learn how to get started and how to explore your mid-career options. This resource is completely updated for your use.

02/03/02 - Community - Gone? Or Just Harder to Find?
Community is breaking down in America with serious implications for volunteerism, charity-giving, religious practices, neighborhoods, friendships, family, democracy, and society. There are implications for work, family, and self. Find out more.

01/28/02 - Top Picks: Toss Out Your Dusty, Old Appraisal System: Best Performance Management Books
Performance appraisal systems don't work as traditionally practiced. The people who do them and the people who get them, despise the process. You need to provide feedback and measure and reward contribution. Create a better system with these books.

01/15/02 - Catch the Wave: Six Training Trends
The wave of the future of training is breaking on the shore. It's dissolving old ways of thinking and asking organizations to look at training in a whole new way. Why? Because much of what organizations did for years in training failed to produce the desired results, if expected outcomes were defined at all. Yes, results. Find out more.

01/06/02 - Four Trends Shaping Your Future
It's tough to write about trends. Writing requires separating what is likely to happen from my own wishful thinking about what ought to happen. Add my fears, concerns, needs, and wishes for your success … You get the picture. If you're not yet thinking about these possibilities and opportunities, it's time to start.

Articles from 2001			Top

12/27/01 - Laughing Your Way to Organizational Health
Workplace wellness is a serious issue. With stress-related-illness and burnout becoming household words, you are increasingly looking for ways to keep your workforce happy, healthy and productive. David Granirer's humor insights tell you how.

12/20/01 - How to Build a Teamwork Culture: Do the Hard Stuff
Team building is creating a work culture that values collaboration. In a teamwork environment, people assimilate the belief that "none of us is as good as all of us." Gain great teamwork tips, my favorite ice breaker and a fun team building activity.

12/15/01 - How to Gift the Boss or a Special Co-worker
It's an age-old dilemma and it comes up every year. What do you do for that valued boss or co-worker on a special occasion? Gift-giving opportunities are endless - and endlessly challenging. Help is here. These gifts are appreciated and cherished.

12/08/01 - Top Picks: Posters That Reinforce and Sustain Your Culture
Your culture is a result of the values, experience, and behaviors shared by its employees. You can see your culture live in your language, symbols, stories, and work practices. Emphasize the values and culture you desire with motivational prints.

12/02/01 - Top Picks: Accelerate Your Work Team Success
Many people view team-based, horizontal, organization structures as the best design for involving all employees in creating business success and profitability. If you're intrigued by this belief, these books will help you capitalize on team power.

11/25/01 - Twelve Tips for Team Building
People in every workplace talk about building the team, working as a team, and my team, but few understand how to create the experience of team work or how to develop an effective team. Here are twelve tips for building successful work teams.

11/22/01 - Predictors and Promises for Your HR Future
If you wish to jump start your progress in the HR profession, these books will tell you where to invest your time and attention. They are recent, on-target, study-based and key for professional growth. They identify key trends for you to adopt now.

11/19/01 - My Favorite Recent Business Reads
Business books are often boring. They offer few "real world" examples of the touted philosophy or recommendations in action. I've selected these books; they're the best I've read recently. They'll hold your interest and demonstrate theory in action.

11/15/01 - Little Books With Big Impact
One current trend in business books is the short book, often written as a story or fable. These books are approachable, useful and may help encourage more people to read. They pack a solid punch in a small package. Read about some of my favorites.

11/12/01 - Books About Consulting
Looking for ways to find clients, keep clients happy and hone your consulting skills? If you're starting a practice, even internal, these books will save you time. Experienced consultants may have missed these informative, special choices. Take a look.

11/07/01 - Before You Buy a Business Book
Avoid the siren call of the latest and greatest business book. When you spot a book that says, "buy me," resist the urge unless you can use the book right now. I own so many unread books. These tips can help you avoid the same needless expenditures.

11/01/01 - Are You Getting the Best Benefit From Your Benefits?
Is your benefits package giving you the payback you deserve in increased employee appreciation and satisfaction? Chances are, it's not. Employees only understand and appreciate part of the employer's cost of the benefits they receive. Learn more.

10/18/01 - My Favorite Online Business E-card Shops
Nothing beats an online greeting when you want to communicate a sentiment, a reaction, or an observation quickly and informally. Pleased? Send congratulations. Sad? Send sympathy. Many of you enjoy sending free cards; here are more opportunities.

10/13/01 - Reducing Sources of Conflict at Work Just Makes Sense
While it's unfortunate managers applied the company 'no flag' policy on the national day of remembrance, it's a well-founded policy which other workplaces ought to imitate. They'd reduce potential employee conflict. A reader offers a second opinion.

10/06/01 - The Workplace in a World at War
In the aftermath of the attack on America, organizations are addressing issues of safety, security, sorrow, sensitivity, stress and staffing. Here are the conversations taking place in workplaces around the world. If you're not discussing these issues, maybe you should be.

09/26/01 - Mourning Needs Not Met
On the national remembrance day, a Florida company deprived its employees of their right to take comfort in the sight of the American flag. Why? Because the company had a long held policy that did not permit political or religious expression at work. Read the whole story.

09/13/01 - When Tragedy Strikes...
The Kennedy assassination, the Challenger explosion, and the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon are among America's unconscionable tragedies. Many hear the news at work. Learn what you can do to ease the pain and encourage hope.

09/09/01 - Twenty Dumb Things Organizations Do to Mess Up Their Relationships With People
Twenty things you'd never do - right? You'd be surprised how often I encounter these approaches. Sadly, they are generally implemented or proposed to accomplish all the right things for people and the organization. Don't miss these. Add your own.

09/01/01 - How to Add Value in Continuing Strategic Change
HR is the stabilizer and champion during organizational change. HR adds value by ensuring change efforts deliver lasting results. How? Use a principle-based approach to promote stability and manage your organization's embedded polarities. Learn more.

08/23/01 - Elan at Work
Are you capturing the ardor and the spirit of your work force? You want to maximize contributions from people. You want to fuel excitement. You want people to fulfill dreams, plans and needs. You want to be the chosen, valued employer. Find out how.

08/13/01 - Foster Success for People: Two Musts for Motivation
Tired of hearing that people are your most important resource? That's fair. These buzz words sound trite today. How about a better statement of belief? People are your only resource. Love them and help them grow or lose them to an employer who will.

08/05/01 - HR Tool: Ask Right to Hire Right
Looking for a simple, yet effective way to immediately improve your interviewing and staff selection process? Define the characteristics you'd most like to have in a new employee. Then, develop questions that help you assess the applicant's fit.

07/29/01 - True Empowerment Wins
Confused about the legitimate role of employee teams and committees in a non-union work setting? If so, you are not alone. Employers have been cautious for years. A new NLRB decision may shed some light. Truly empowered teams rock. Read more.

07/22/01 - Ten Tips to Prevent Vacation Downtime
Summer brings heavy vacation time to organizations. Vacations tax your resources and keep you shorthanded. Work is undone. Customer service suffers. Does this scenario have to happen? Not if you use these ten tips for work coverage. Check them out.

07/10/01 - HR Tool: Grow Your Strategic Consulting Skills
What does your organization need from you as an HR professional in the twenty-first century? I'll bet it's less rulemaking and administration and more about consulting, customer-focus, measuring results and value-added activities. Find out how.

06/24/01 - It's All About the Managers...Duh!
The keys to financial success in business are not the strategies or the systems of the firm. The character and skill of managers, who practice what they preach, and know how to coach employee performance and morale are what count. Learn more.

06/17/01 - Sick Leave Abuse: A Chronic Workplace Ill?
Unscheduled employee absences are increasing. If you apply creative strategies to leave, attendance, and absenteeism management, you can keep people coming to work. You'll increase workplace productivity and add value to your bottom line.

06/10/01 - It Can Happen Here
A very real, clear and present danger lurks just beyond the consciousness of most people who work together. It is the potential for violent actions to occur in your workplace. Increasingly, the Human Resources function is both the target and the organization's first line of defense for prevention. Find out more.

05/22/01 - HR as Product: Be the Brand of Choice
Human Resource practitioners need to rethink their role as a department, not just for contributing to their organization's bottom line, but for their survival. Learn how to be the brand of choice in your organization. Welcome guest writer, Judith Brown.

05/15/01 - The Great Debate About 360
Join the great debates about 360 degree feedback. Anonymous or shared? Web-based or paper and pencil? Affects compensation or not? Organization or employee-owned? Find out more about the pros and cons.

05/03/01 - Promote Self-Discipline
You can create a work environment in which people choose to practice self-discipline and thus, minimize the need for supervisory disciplinary action. Intriguing? Find out more.

04/25/01 - 360 Degree Feedback: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Want to stir up all of the dormant fearballs hidden just below the surface in your organization? Nothing raises hackles as fiercely as a change in performance feedback methods, especially when they affect compensation decisions. Learn more about 360 degree feedback processes.

04/14/01 - Trust Rules: The Most Important Secret
Without it, you have nothing. Trust forms the foundation for effective communication, employee retention, and employee motivation and contribution of discretionary energy, the extra effort that people voluntarily invest in work. When trust is present, everything else is easier. Learn more.

04/06/01 - Training Resource Center
Some are old, some new, but all are terrific resources about training related topics for you. Check out the free training from Guides at About.

03/28/01 - Set Them Free: Two Musts for Motivation
Everyone is motivated about something. Find out how to create a work environment that enables people to express that motivation at work.

03/21/01 - A New Look at Performance Management
I've expanded the performance management resources. Visit this resource for forward thinking ideas about performance management, appraisal, or the annual review.

03/13/01 - Everyone Wins: More Tips for Training Transfer
Critically important to training transfer are the activities that start during and occur following the training session. You can help create an environment that fosters the ability of each individual to assimilate learning and apply it on the job. Just follow these guidelines.

03/07/01 - Change Management Wisdom
As the speed of change continues to increase, change management is a fundamental competency needed by the Human Resources professional. I've collected your words, from my recent change management survey. They demonstrate the nuances of change strategy, planning, implementation, and courage much more graphically than any I can offer on my own.

02/26/01 - Orientation Vs. Integration
Your new employee orientation is a make 'em or break 'em experience for a new employee. Why does something we want to do well, so often go astray? Check out these tips for doing new employee orientation well. Welcome guest writer, Barbara O'Toole.

02/20/01 - Change, Change, Change: More Lessons From the Field
Want to make change work for you? Communicate; involve all stakeholders; share the belief and the dream. Check out the second installment of change survey results.

02/12/01 - Change, Change, Change: Lessons From the Field
Change is possible; the need for change is increasing; change capability is necessary for organizations that will succeed in the future. So say the respondents to my recent survey about change management success. Check out the first installment of results.

02/05/01 - HR Tool: Performance Development Process Checklist
Performance appraisals, performance reviews, appraisal forms, whatever you want to call them, let's call them gone. As a stand-alone, annual assault, they are universally disliked and avoided. Use this tool to create a process that nurtures employee development instead.

01/28/01 - Tips About Dating, Sex, and Romance at Work
What's love got to do with dating, sex, and romance at the office? Plenty. Get tips about how to address dating, sex, and romance at work.

01/22/01 - Survivors Can Soar After Downsizing
If you do the right things right, you can minimize, and even eliminate, the negative organizational impacts of a downsizing. Find out how.

01/14/01 - Downsizing Survivors
For whatever reason, your organization downsized, right-sized, eliminated redundancy, scheduled lay-offs, or cut staff. No matter what you called it, you all have something in common--survivors. Learn more.

01/08/01 - The Growing Glossary Keeps on Giving
Here's the every day gift that keeps on giving--the beginning of a comprehensive glossary of Human Resources words, terms, and concepts. Check out this ever-growing resource.

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12/31/00 - Make the Most of Your HR Month
Looking for ways to shine the positive spotlight on your Human Resources programs, processes, and people? Human Resources Month provides a great opportunity to get started. Find out how.

12/21/00 - The Top Ten Resolutions for Your Possible New Year
Take a look at these recommended resolutions. They'll help you recharge, renew, and revitalize your career and life. These are from my heart, and just for you.

12/10/00 - The Awesome Power of Goal Setting—Ten Tips for Triumph
Heed the advice offered by Lewis Carroll’s Cheshire Cat, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, and Stephen Covey. When you begin your new year with solid direction and desired outcomes in mind, you set yourself up for awesome success. These tips will help you achieve your goals and live your resolutions.

11/30/00 - What Would an HR Hero Do?
Check out my first scenario in a new interactive feature. I’ll keep adding more scenarios if site visitors enjoy this new approach to sharing HR information. Please give me feedback in the HR Community Connection Forum.

11/25/00 - Take Those Numeric Ratings and...
Numeric ratings are one of the most abused components of any measurement and assessment system. They make people angry and destroy fragile working relationships. The wonder to me is why you would expect anything different. Want to know more?

11/18/00 - Make Learning Matter: Become a Learning Organization
Organizations with the best chance to succeed and thrive in the future are learning organizations. What is a learning organization? How can you turn your organization into a learning organization? Find sixteen tips and a definition in this article.

11/10/00 - HR Trends: Are You Ready for an Agile Future?
Agile, nimble, resilient—these words describe the people you want to hire, retain, and develop in the future. They describe the organizations that will thrive in times of intensely competitive, rapidly changing markets, customers, products, delivery systems, and services. They describe YOU, if you value your HR career and your contribution to the competitiveness and success of your organization. Find out more.

10/31/00 - Help People Thrive at Work
How to recruit, retain, reward, and motivate staff currently tops your interest list. Doing these well is the most important strategic role of the Human Resources professional. Thomas Petzinger, of Wall Street Journal fame, talks to the new pioneers, organizations that are doing right things right for people, products, and customers. This is really good.

10/23/00 - Performance Management is NOT an Annual Appraisal
Performance appraisals are a hot topic in HR these days. In fact, hundreds of resources exist to tell you how to do performance reviews. I think this is the wrong approach. Should you do reviews at all? If so, what is the larger systems issue? Find out.

10/15/00 - How to Make Values Live in Your Organization
Your culture is the outward demonstration of the values that exist in your workplace. Are these values creating the workplace you want? Do these values promote a culture of extraordinary customer care by happy, motivated, productive people? Find out more.

09/30/00 - HR Guide Got Guidance: Survey Results Are In
Survey results are in. Over 140 people invested their time to participate. I promise your time was well spent. Read on to discover who uses the About HR site and what your colleagues want from this HR site. Some of the results may surprise you. They did me.

09/24/00 - Training CAN Make a Difference: Twelve Tips for Training Transfer
Can you turn your training participants into learning magnets who can’t wait to attend their next training? Absolutely. Can you expect improved work performance as a result of the time, energy, and money you invest? Absolutely. Find out how.

09/12/00 - Build an Organization Based on Values
Does the environment of your workplace motivate, excite and retain employees? To ensure that it does, create a workplace with a foundation firmly based on your core values. Learn more.

08/31/00 - Book Review: Birth of the Chaordic Age
I‘ve been thinking a lot about chaos -- not as in massive disorder, but as described in the new science of complexity. That’s the study of organizations as complex, living systems, not as ordered, controlled environments like those defined by organizational charts and detailed job descriptions. Read some additional thoughts and a book review of a terrific book.

08/23/00 - Resource Roundup: Ten Great Web Sites for Managers
The Internet is a world whose cities, countries, streets, and byways are millions of Web pages and more. If you’re a Human Resources manager with limited time to use the World Wide Web as a career-building tool, the sheer magnitude is daunting. To make this world more approachable, I’ve picked ten Web sites that contain knowledgeable, thoughtful content for managers. Take a look; I’m sure they’re value added for you.

08/14/00 - Ten Tips to Make Training Work
How much money did your organization invest last year in training that failed to provide the results you sought? You are not alone if training classes rarely resulted in the transfer of immediately useful information to your workplace. Real employee behavioral change, based on the training content, is even harder to demonstrate. Discouraging? You bet. So what's an organization to do?

07/31/00 - Cures for Negativity
Your workplace is seething with hostility and negativity. No matter where the bad vibes came from, it's up to you, as an HR professional, to help make the atmosphere more positive, productive and supportive. Find out how.

07/16/00 - Tips for Minimizing Workplace Negativity
Nothing affects employee morale more insidiously than persistent workplace negativity. It saps the energy of your organization and diverts critical attention from work and performance. Find out how to minimize negativity before it starts.

07/09/00 - What Great Managers Do Differently
Great managers break every rule perceived as "conventional wisdom" in selecting, motivating, and developing staff. See how this helps create a stronger organization and committed staff.

06/11/00 - Performance Appraisals Don't Work
Many managers intensely dislike doing performance appraisals. Given the expectations of the traditional process, who can blame them?

06/04/00 - Tips for Effective Coaching
Have you tried on your coaching hat? These six tips will help you make the most of your opportunity as an HR Coach.

05/30/00 - The Strategic HR Coach
Are you missing the momentum as more and more executives seek the assistance of a business or personal coach? Find out more about your opportunity in this role.

05/28/00 - Training Trends
The way organizations integrate training and development concepts is changing. Is your organization ready for new developments such as online learning?

05/14/00 - The New Role of the Human Resource Professional
The role of the Human Resources professional is radically changing. Are you ready for the next decade of change and evolution in HR systems and management style?

  

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