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How Do We Get Managers to Loosen Control Over Employees?
Rather than enabling our employees to innovate, our management tends to stand in their way. They would rather exert tightfisted control over employees. This makes for a work environment that isn't conducive for strategic innovation—we are unable to keep enthusiastic and talented people. How
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Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make Me a Mentor Match
Covance Inc. is among the companies using software to help employees and mentors connect. The program Mentor Scout enables pairings based on mutual professional interests.
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Should We Dispatch With Annual Performance Reviews?
The issue is not your performance-review system. It's probably a deficiency in coaching skills among your managers. Keep the annual review, but add the following elements: Launch a recurring training program to help managers develop coaching skills. If you don't do this, none of your other efforts
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Best Practices in Training & Development
Effective training and development is an investment, as well as a strategy, for companies looking to improve workforce efficiency and performance, while driving overall value to the bottom-line. In Workforce's Best Practices in Training & Development, industry thought leaders share:
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What Do We Do About Managers Who Snoop on Employees?
Our company is helping to build a light-rail train line at an airport. A key objective: demonstrating on-time performance and service, even before trains are put into operation. We required our employees to clock in and out of work as a way of maintaining schedules, but the process generated ...
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What Does Engagement Really Mean?
How should we define employee engagement? Is it more than good morale and camaraderie?
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How Do We Teach New Supervisors That It's OK to Be Assertive?
I am a new supervisor really struggling with what seems like a simple problem. How do I suggest assertiveness training to other new managers without coming across as demeaning? I want to make it part of annual reviews, but am not sure this is the best approach.
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Organizations Need Coaching on How to Coach: Report
Business results were 21 percent higher among organizations whose senior leaders ‘very frequently' make an effort to coach others, according to the Bersin & Associates study.
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How Do We Train Managers to Welcome and Promote Diversity?
We want our managers to play an active role in promoting greater multicultural diversity among our workforce. How might this magnify the challenges they already face in motivating their employees? What obstacles/resistance should they expect, and how could we train them to answer those objections?
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Collaboration Myth-Buster
In thinking about how to help groups think better, beware of ‘groupthink'.
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How Do We Persuade Software Developers to Keep Their Skills Up to Date?
We have terrific software programmers who are technically proficient. Most show little interest in professional development beyond writing more code. How
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How Do We Persuade a Good Manager to Get Better?
What should we do when an otherwise strong and productive manager resists coaching?
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Curbing Wasteful Compliance Training
I’m writing this blog as I sit in a cavernous auditorium with 14 other Georgia attorneys. The lawyer in front of me is doing a crossword puzzle; the lawyer to his left is scanning her Kindle Fire. Several are sending emails; one’s reading a crime novel, another, a newspaper. One is ...
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The Last Word: Daughterly Advice
Imagine my delight when I found out over the holidays that my daughter was promoted into management. Like any good father, dear old Dad was more than happy to impart his years of experience from the managerial front lines.
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Why Don't Our Managers Want to Attend Expensive Training?
How do we get managers to attend training sessions that are expensive and feature well-known trainers? The general attitude seems to be that they are 'above' the training.
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2011 WINNER: Financial Impact—NetApp
For its retention effort with a clear bottom-line boost, NetApp is the 2011 winner of the Optimas Award for Financial Impact.
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Dear Workforce Are Training Departments Becoming Obsolete?
I work in the training and development department of a company that competes in the cellular phone industry. Each of our departments has very specific tasks and functions. That got me to wondering: Are training departments becoming obsolete in today's specialized companies?
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Dear Workforce: What's the Most Important Thing to Remember When We Analyze Jobs?
What is the best starting point when conducting job analyses? We have a number of jobs to examine in our 1,000-employee organization, and don't want to spin our wheels. Is there a top five do's and don'ts list or something similar to help us plan?
