Talent Management Mistake #11: Failure to Assess the Cost of Employee Turnover

Gayla Hodges asked:
In corporate America today, we are aware that there are costs involved in hiring a new employee. We incur these costs because we are convinced that the cost of hiring a new employee in a critical position will be recovered in greater efficiencies and greater sales or profitability down the line. Losing [...]

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Personal Traits You Need to Succeed as an Internet Marketer

Kurt Naulaerts asked:
I have some useful tips you can use for your own especially if you are an Internet Marketer just starting an Internet Business from home.
I have found that the following personal traits are required if you want to be a successful Internet Marketer even if you are working from home.
You may want [...]

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The Simple 7-Step Online Success Formula For Professional Service Firms

Patrick Mcevoy asked:
Fully 95% of my professional service firm (PSF) clients desperately want their web sites to produce high quality business leads but they simply don’t know how to make it happen.
Most have tried expensive web designers, graphic artists, “geeks” of every type and Google Adwords. In the end . . . the conclusion [...]

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Pmi Gold Sees Shareholder Growth in Micro-mining

Gregory Gethard asked:
PMI Gold Corporation (TSX.V: PMV) is betting that micro-mining, the practice of operating smaller, high margin gold mines, will help it grow over time into a significant producer.
Case in point: the firm’s activity on Kubi, a property located in Ghana’s Golden Triangle. PMI Gold CEO and President Douglas MacQuarrie believes Kubi could [...]

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Your Team’s Most Pivotal Point of the Season – Now

Randy Brown asked:
January is decision time for basketball teams at all levels. This key period in the season brings character, perseverance, and toughness to the forefront. All of your team’s preparation, stretching back to the hot summer workouts, is challenged in this difficult period of a few weeks. Your team has three paths to [...]

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How to Be a Team Player

Michael Hehn asked:
Team players are usually the people that are known for sacrifice, sharing, and hard work. Does this sound like a reputation you’d like to have? Many strive to be a team player in the work place, but it takes more than just having a desire, it takes hard work. One piece of [...]

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Managing Crunch Time

Tim Bryce asked:
“All of your hard work, regardless of how well it is intended, is for naught
if it results in a pile of rubbage.”
- Bryce’s Law
INTRODUCTION
Okay, you are under the gun to produce something by a given date; you do not have a lot of time for a robust methodology, nor are you interested [...]

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Basic Survival Skills for Managing Gen Y

Ira Wolfe asked:
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Worldwide Generation Y is huge, nearly 2 billion strong. In the U.S. Gen Y, also called Millennials, outnumber the Baby Boomers, the previously largest generation. The Boomers made and moved markets. The Millennials will be the doing the same thing but more quickly and dramatically. Millennials will rewrite [...]

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High Performers Versus Low Performers – 7 Ways to Tell the Difference

Barbara Brown, PhD asked:
What’s the difference between a high-performer and low-performer?  That question occurred to me after reading findings from the company Leadership IQ.  Out of 16,237 employees, only 3,896 self-identified as high-performers!  If you move beyond the shocking realization that everyone did not label themselves as high-performers, you might come to the realization [...]

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Addressing Organizational Conflict

Greg Giesen asked:
All too often organizations cry out for what I call the quick fix. You know the scenario: two employees not getting along, probably personality differences, not real receptive to previous internal interventions, etc., so the organization decides to bring in outside help to fix the problem. Sound familiar?
I call it the quick [...]

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