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No organization is perfect, but there are most likely “pockets of excellence” at your company. These are the employees or departments that stand out among the rest. How can you foster these pockets of excellence and help them spread throughout the business?
With over 4 decades of experience as a teacher, an organizational change practitioner, and a communications consultant, Dalton Kehoe, PhD, knows how to manage well and drive engagement. Dr. Kehoe, author of Mindful Management: The Neuroscience of Trust and Effective Workplace Leadership, has some tips for our readers.
As a leader, you likely attend more meetings than you can count. One third of the more than 11 million meetings held in America each day are considered unproductive—a statistic that costs an estimated 37 billion dollars a year. While managing six different companies across several time zones, Taskworld CEO and Serial Entrepreneur, Fred Mouawad […]
By BLR Senior Legal Editor Susan Schoenfeld, JD The challenge of how and when to accommodate pregnant employees has moved to the forefront as a result of recent changes to the law and recent guidance coming from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
By Brian J. Kurtz, JD, FordHarrison LLP
In yesterday’s Advisor, Ruth Ross, author of Coming Alive: The Journey to Reengage Your Life and Career, described her ALIVE plan for battling disengagement and the first step in the plan—Ask. Today Ross describes the final four steps of the plan.
In yesterday’s Advisor, expert Tom Borgerding offered his take on building recruiting relationships on campus. Today we present a case study with three examples of what works, plus metrics for college recruiting.
This article series highlights the requirements for determining Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) eligibility. The last installment focused on the second area of the three-prong test used to determine FMLA eligibility, the minimum hours requirement.
Yesterday we looked at some of the ways that Twitter can be useful for recruiters, and we introduced some useful Twitter tips. Today we’ll take a look at a few more.
We have an employee who is nearing the end of her 12 weeks of FMLA. The employee is by definition a key employee. At the time she went on leave, the workplace wasn’t experiencing any changes or growth or the need to replace the position. Therefore, we did not communicate to her that there was […]