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5 Keys for Creating a Fortune 500-Style Mentoring Program

June 22nd, 2017

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5 Keys for Creating a Fortune 500-Style Mentoring Program

Surveys show that 70-75 percent of Fortune 500 companies have dedicated mentoring programs. It’s easy to see why so many do. Successful mentoring programs have many powerful benefits for employers, including:

  • Reduced turnover and recruiting costs. Both mentees and mentors are about 20...

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10 Questions You Should Ask New Employees

May 31st, 2017

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10 Questions You Should Ask New Employees

Are you taking advantage of the highly valuable intelligence that new employees can give you about the candidate and onboarding experiences you’re providing?

You should be. Their insights enable you to improve candidate and onboarding experiences, helping:

  • Reduce time to hire
  • Reduce cost per hire
  • ...

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How to Customize Onboarding for Promoted Employees and Rising Stars

April 14th, 2017

How to Customize Onboarding for Promoted Employees and Rising Stars

The best onboarding programs combine general best practices with practices that are customized for the individual needs of the particular...

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Answering 6 of the Most Critical Questions About Employee Onboarding

March 28th, 2017

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Answering 6 of the Most Critical Questions About Employee Onboarding

Onboarding should be a rather easy process. Unfortunately, shocking numbers of organizations foul it up. The result: employee performance problems. According to 2016 Brandon Hall Group research, 72% of organizations are either only somewhat or not at all satisfied...

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The Manager’s 3-Part Guide to Building a Performance-Based Team

February 23rd, 2017

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The Manager’s 3-Part Guide to Building a Performance-Based Team

Whether you’re a new manager, a manager new to your organization, or a manager trying to get better employee performance results, building a performance-based team should be among your top priorities.

A performance-based team not only gets things done, but it also has objectives that are consistent with...

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Quiz: Are You an HR Business Partner?

February 2nd, 2017

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Quiz: Are You an HR Business Partner?

A longstanding complaint of HR managers is that senior leaders view them as transactional administrators, not key business partners.

Sometimes, however, it can be hard to tell where you stand. Fortunately, we have this simple, five-question quiz that will help clear it up for you.

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Six Strategies to Wow New Employees From the Start

January 19th, 2017

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How do new hires tend to feel about your organization and their roles after a few weeks on the job? 

A. Great!

B. Meh.

C. Ugh.

D. Don’t know.

If your answer is B, C, or D, consider improving the start of the employee onboarding experience you provide. Impressing new hires from the...

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When It Is Time to Move On…

June 10th, 2016

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Sometimes it is important to step back and critically examine your position and make decisions before they are made for you !...

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Stop Second-Guessing Your Decisions

April 11th, 2016

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It is fairly common for new leaders to lack confidence in their decision-making abilities.  Here’s how to make a change for the better....

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Collaborate to Gain Buy-in from Executive Peers

December 15th, 2015

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Inspiring the commitment of fellow executives often can be achieved most effectively by taking a more collaborative approach....

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