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Work-Life Balance Program, How I Love Thee
AKA Our Work Life Balance Program Saved My Sanity I’m writing this with the grainy-eyed-haven’t-slept-in-almost-24-hours stare that is usually associated with psychopaths and highly-caffeinated college students. This has been a week for the record books, and I’m hoping tomorrow turns out better. The short version is that a perfect storm of personal and work activities…
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How to Develop Managers-Get Them Involved
In my first post on how to develop managers, I talked about uncovering manager development opportunities. Today we’ll talk about how to structure your organization so the managers want to get involved with their own development. Hire right It starts with the hire. If you hire someone who is comfortable with what they can already…
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Employee Referral Recruitment-Pros and Cons
Interested in growing your employee referral recruitment but not sure how to get started? Today we’ll look at a few ways to encourage the process as well as a few ideas to keep it from getting out of hand (the “good old boy” system, people trying to circumvent the process, etc.). What and Why Employee…
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4 Posts You Might Have Missed
It’s been a few weeks since I posted here, but I have definitely still been busy with writing and other activities. I’d like to share a few articles I’ve written lately that might be of interest. The funny thing is that I didn’t even realize it until I started grabbing the links that two of…
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Corporate Culture-Values, Beliefs, and… Job Applications?
When you’re trying to learn about an organization’s corporate culture, values, and  beliefs, you need to pay attention to the available information to get a good feel for it. One of my friends is looking at applying to a local private Christian school, and I went to their website to print the application for him…
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Corporate Culture Examples
If you’ve been looking for some corporate culture examples, look no further. I’ve pulled together a handful of ideas that you can put into action to help your employees become raving fans of the organization. Some of them are easy to implement in the short term, others might take a little more work to get…
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Our accidental wellness program
A quick decision at work last fall has led to untold hours of friendship and fun, and it was entirely unplanned. This is the story of our accidental wellness program. August 2011 One of our engineers decided to start training for a local marathon. She was already running some, and a few of us at…
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