From the monthly archives:

January 2009

What To Do When Your Employees Act Like Zombies

January 31, 2009

Image via Wikipedia Safe Work Places are good for business….and your employees It is an expectation that companies will maintain safe work environments for their employees. Federal and state law requires the posting of warning signs, maintaining careful records, regular audits, and a plethora of bureaucratic details to ensure the safety of workers. Most employers [...]

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Discussions of the Confirmation Delay of Hilda Solis

January 29, 2009

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Observations from FriendFeed on the delayed conformation for Secretary of Labor nominee Hilda Solis. triple t Why are Republicans obstructing the nomination of Hilda Solis? 2 hours ago – dneiwert.blogspot.com – Comment – Like – More “The confirmation of Rep. Hilda Solis, D-El Monte, as President Barack Obama‘s Labor [...]

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Erin Gruwell – Freedom Writer Foundation

January 28, 2009

Cover via Amazon Great speaker today at the Employers of Excellence Conference. Erin Gruwell, a teacher from California whose students became the inspiration for the 2007 film Freedom Writers, starring Hilary Swank. Listening to her tell the stories of her students and their difficult lives literally brought tears to my eyes. Nothing could have prepared [...]

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Layoff Talk

January 28, 2009

Image by jibber11 via Flickr Daily Recruiting Thanks to Gina O’Leary at The Search Logix Group for publishing my article on rules for layoffs on her Daily Recruiter web site. Check out their job postings here. Related articles by Zemanta Will the Dallas Mavericks Sink or Swim Under New Head Coach Rick Carlisle? (bleacherreport.com) HCI [...]

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The Music Paradigm: Conducting Leadership Training

January 28, 2009

Managing Change With Music I am really enjoying the 2009 Employers of Excellence Conference. Even though attendance is light due to the poor economy, the folks at HR.com have gone all out to make this a really innovative event. With only a few hundred attendees, many of them senior HR executives, it is a chance [...]

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Golden Nugget Discovered in Las Vegas!

January 27, 2009

Kenny the Monk Was Pure Gold! One of the very best things about attending conferences like the Employer of Excellence Conference is the opportunity to discover one of those rare gold nuggets, unexpected pleasures like a speaker who is unexpectedly stirring, or even better, a speaker who makes you laugh out loud during a lunch [...]

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Working Las Vegas

January 27, 2009

Image via Wikipedia Morning in Las Vegas Las Vegas : the last time I was here in December 2007, it was still going strong. Today, the headlines on the local news in my room at New York New York Casino are all about the Black Monday job losses from yesterday. There is one piece of [...]

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Layoffs Still the Watchword

January 26, 2009

Watching Layoffs Mount Layoffs continue to dominate the world conversation today. The New York Times called today “A Day of Layoffs“. Workers around the world, and particularly in Europe and the United States,faced another round of job cuts on Monday that swept across several industries. In the United States, several corporations said Monday morning thatthey [...]

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Top 100 Employers and the Twitterati

January 25, 2009

Kudos to Top 100 Employers From the Twitterati Check out what people have to say about the 2009 Fortune Magazine Top 100 Great Places to Work list on twitter. Top 100 Career Links Guide from Human Race Horses here terrylwhite: is looking forward to working another week at #11 on Fortune’s Top 100 companies to [...]

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2009 "Top 100 Employers" Links Guide

January 25, 2009

Image via Wikipedia2009 Top 100 Companies Career Guide from Human Race Horses Link to the full list of the 2009 Top 100 Companies from Fortune Magazine. Below are links for each company on the 2009 Fortune 100 Top Companies to Work For. Each year, we use the Top 100 list to create a links guide [...]

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