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Using Recruitment Metrics in Getting the Right Candidate
October 28, 2008
A company’s main asset is its workforce. It goes without saying that when a company needs people, it needs to get the right people. Otherwise, productivity would be compromised and expenditures increased. As it is the HR department’s responsibility to hire people for the company, it is their job to protect the company from these possible losses. The HR recruitment staff cannot just accept nor discard applicants without just measure. Thus, recruitment metrics comes about.
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Are You Spending Too Much Time Focusing Recruiting Or Retaining?
October 28, 2008
Companies spend too much time focusing recruiting rather than on retaining.
The rule is no longer if your employees leave it is now when will they going to leave. How many times have you spent hundreds to thousands of dollars in hiring and training an employee only to discover that they leave.
Why do they leave? Experts in this field will say because…
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Management Training - The Dirty Little Secrets
October 26, 2008
I am often asked if training really works. The answer is yes and no! Here’s why.
Sometimes, unless a training is made mandatory, those who need it the most will choose not to attend!
75% of the learning goes on after the employee comes back to the job. Said another way–employees will forget most of what they learned unless it is reinforced on the job after they come back from training.
Too often people are sent off to training in the hopes that they will get “fixed” when in fact if the training doesn’t incorporate good adult learning principles and isn’t seen as relevant from the trainee’s point of view, it will fail.
Employees are sometimes sent to training for specific skills when the real problem is attitude…ahem…I mean lack of professional behavior problems. -
Why Would a Business Want to Use a Temp Agency
October 24, 2008
Companies may wonder why they should hire an hr consulting firm, i.e., a temp agency, to locate quality employees.
In a highly competitive corporate world, knowledgeable help can mean the difference between a constant influx of clients and bankruptcy. Statistically speaking, every disgruntled customer that leaves your establishment equals seven or more people who won’t give you a chance based on word of mouth.
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Sexual Harassment Training
October 23, 2008
Sexual harassment is defined as unwelcome advances, verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature, seeking sexual favors, or inappropriate sexual interference of a person’s workplace or work performance.
What Law Says
Legally, sexual harassment is a violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 - it is a form of a sexual discrimination. The act applies to a workplace where more than 15 employees work; this includes local, state, and federal workplaces as well as private sector businesses.
Part of doing business in civilized society requires that all employees have an understanding of responsibility in regards to appropriate behavior in the workplace. Harassment of a sexual nature can be curbed substantially-if not entirely eliminated-from the workplace by having complete and adequate knowledge and training.
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Hiring Expats For Work
October 19, 2008
Anyone engaged in business today recognizes the rising costs of labor as one of the major hindrances to expansion. While there are several ways that this issue is being addressed, one of the most viable is by hiring expat workers.
There are numerous advantages of having expats in your workforce. The first is that they are not difficult to find. There are now, in such countries as New Zealand Canada, Japan, the United States, several thriving expat communities. Undoubtedly there are also several more in other nations.
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Clear As Mud
March 28, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: Careers, Workplace Communication
Men and women both have babies.
That’s a fact of life - because I just said so. If we make the assumption that both sexes are physically capable of giving birth and brainstorm for creative childcare options, do you think we would come up with some new ideas?
I actually get out a camera during my classes when we talk about this subject. If you look around the room, you’ll see that the women are vigorously nodding their heads, and the men are looking at me like I’m completely nuts. But really, you haven’t hurt anything by assuming that men and women both have babies. You’ve just gained a totally new perspective.
Now, what if I told you that the magnetic North and South Poles were going to flip? Is that illogical? Not at all; in fact, it’s already happening.
On average, the magnetic poles flip every 70,000 years and it’s been about 120,000 years. We can prove this by looking at ancient pottery. When the clay was spun on the spinning wheel, the iron particles in the clay acted as compass needles and point north. Once ancient civilizations cured the clay, they created a permanent record of where North was. Ancient pottery reveals that the poles have flipped.
Whether men can have babies or the North and South poles really flip doesn’t matter. What’s important is the fact that there’s no harm in assuming they can to break up the logic and look at things differently.
It’s all about allowing ambiguity ambiguity. One of the biggest hindrances to creativity is the fact that people do not allow ambiguity. Things must be clear-cut; right or wrong. We want specificity from life and from each other.
Engineers hate ambiguity. When I’m speaking to a group of them, someone will always stop me and say, “Ok, hold on. You’ve got to clear things up a bit.”
“No, I’m being ambiguous on purpose.”
“Well, I’m not allowing my team to go through this without further clarification.”
Sigh.
We avoid ambiguity because of communication problems. People want to know that they’re on the same page, but in a brainstorming session, it’s ok to be ambiguous. It’s ok to think about other ways an idea can be interpreted.
People also get too hung up on logic. Obviously, logic is part of the creative process, but logic can be restrictive to the brainstorming session. My restrictions on logic really get under engineers skin, too. When I tell a room of engineers that absolutely, positively no logic is allowed for one hour, their anger is palpable. I hear everything from, “you’re wasting time,” and “if we’re being illogical then we don’t have the budget for this,” and “this is stupid.” They actually get mad.
What the engineers don’t understand is that we need that one hour to be totally illogical and ambiguous. You can be logical for the other 23 hours of the day if you need to, but for one hour, withhold judgment and let the creative juices flow.
Judgment kills creativity. When the boss opens their mouth and says, “That won’t work,” the creative process dies and no more ideas get thrown out.
Ambiguity is really about interpreting things differently, letting go of logic, and escaping from the fear of judgment. To encourage ambiguity, I tell students to listen to their dreams. Dreams are some of the most ambiguous experiences we encounter in life. Do you ever wake up in the morning and think about your dreams? Are you able to apply that crazy dream to what you were working on before you went to sleep?
Of course, when I tell people to listen to their dreams I’m not encouraging them to try to steal Brad Pitt from Angelina Jolie or quit their day job to become a rock star. I want students to listen to their dreams in a more literal sense. Pay attention to what your illogical right brain is saying. If you haven’t already concluded that I’m a little bit different, you’re going to think so now. I’m to the point that I can connect my crazy wild dreams to what I was thinking about in my logical left brain about 50% of the time. As long as I don’t roll out of bed and fully wake up, I can usually make the connection between my crazy dreams of flying around in a pink tuxedo and a problem that I’ve been pondering.
Allowing ambiguity in the creative process gives me a major advantage in business. It gives you freedom to find new answers.
Freedom is actually a bigger game than power.
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