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  • The Tom Sawyer Way: Crowdsource From Your Community

    The Tom Sawyer Way: Crowdsource From Your Community

    Joining the ranks of authenticity and transparency, crowdsourcing is quickly becoming everyone’s favorite buzzword. With more platforms continuing to seamlessly erode barriers between you and your communities, you should be using the crowd to your advantage. Embrace your inner Tom Sawyer and motivate your community to work for you.

  • HR Trends Survey 2013: Key Results

    HR Trends Survey 2013: Key Results

    The results of the 2013 HR Trends Survey demonstrate continued expectations for steady or increasing revenue, a need to be flexible to operate in an environment of reorganization, restructuring and change, and a need to access talent that can manage these changes and deliver on organizational revenue targets.

  • What Can Baseball Teach You About Talent Management?

    What Can Baseball Teach You About Talent Management?

    What strategy can HR professionals glean from baseball? The double-play.

  • Age Related Barriers Toughest on Youth: Impact Widespread

    Age Related Barriers Toughest on Youth: Impact Widespread

    The difficulties being felt in the job market are proving particularly painful for young adults.

  • Creative Tactics for Succession Success

    Creative Tactics for Succession Success

    Most organizations these days are looking for ways to develop their successors. For those looking for something new, in a high impact/low risk way, here are three creative succession tactics which can help your organization to develop successors.

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  • Everyday Innovation: Are You There Yet?

    Innovation need not be a quest for groundbreaking ideas. Companies gain advantages when they inspire ‘everyday innovation’ among employees. What are the conditions that foster everyday innovation and how companies can measure their progress toward creating these conditions?

    June 18, 2013 | 0 comments | View Post

  • Sharing a Vision with Clearly Contacts CEO Roger Hardy

    Roger Hardy is the founder and CEO of ClearlyContacts.ca, the world's largest online retailer of contact lenses and eyeglasses. Hardy's "never-say-die" attitude and uncanny problem solving skills have helped him become a proven developer of successful business strategies and have

    June 13, 2013 | 0 comments | View Post

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  • The Challenge of Creativity

    It is common to find articles on how to be more creative. We all know organizations should innovate. We all like the idea of being more creative. However the failing of these articles is that they presume the shortfall in

    June 6, 2013 | 0 comments | View Post

  • The Criticism Sandwich: A Stale Idea

    The criticism sandwich advises us to lay on some praise before delivering any criticism and then to complete the process by adding another layer of praise. Most of us know, from having been at the receiving end of what feels

    May 10, 2013 | 0 comments | View Post

  • Recuit & Retain (more)

  • Will Your New Hire Be a Good Team Player?

    In a global economy, even the most brilliant individual can’t compete with a cohesive, high-functioning team. Bruce Piasecki offers a handful of tips, tricks, and insights for making sure your next hire is team-oriented, coachable, and loyal.

    June 7, 2013 | 1 comment | View Post

  • After the Honeymoon: Minimizing Misemployment

    Like many HR professionals, you have just spent weeks or possibly months recruiting your latest new hire. With the recruitment process complete and the new hire settled in their role, you prepare to move onto the next challenge…or so you

    February 28, 2013 | 0 comments | View Post

  • Other Recent Articles

  • Not Myself Today: Opening Up to Mental Health

    BC’s Anti-Bullying legislation is not yet a year old and it has been the catalyst for opening up the dialogue around how to address mental health and safety issues in the workplace. It is encouraging to see so much engagement from employers as well as public support from professional organizations.

    June 14, 2013 | 0 comments | View Post

  • 9 Ways to Influence Without Authority

    A key skill relevant to leaders at all levels is the ability to positively influence people in such a way that others follow and act willingly —as opposed to complying because of the authority factor. Then there are those roles where leaders must “manage” more indirectly. In many cases, as with HR, finance and marketing, where direct report structures differ, this might even be the primary way things get done.

    June 11, 2013 | 0 comments | View Post

  • The Measure of Smart HR: Key Metrics Aligned to Business

    Our business environment has been in constant flux since late in 2008. Much as we have become used to this new normal, the environment for HR people requires a new set of skills and new sets of information with which to make decisions and track outcomes.

    June 5, 2013 | 1 comment | View Post