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In yesterday’s Advisor, Harvard Senior Lecturer Frank Cespedes discussed the need for sales and HR to do a better job of using each other’s skills in hiring sales people. Today, we provide Cespedes’ take on sales training.
For the past year, HR Works has been bringing you the most pressing HR issues out there and talking with the best professionals in the business to provide actionable solutions and formative advice for our listeners. Want to listen to the top moments from the year? Check out the best of the HR Works Podcast […]
Do you employ workers with Autism? If not, you’re missing out on bunch of benefits these workers bring to the table.
More than two in five (43 percent) hiring managers who currently research candidates via social media said they have found information that has caused them not to hire a candidate, according to a recent CareerBuilder survey. This is up 9 percentage points from last year! There was also a slight rise in the number of […]
Detrimental teams are the norm in business everywhere. The practices of most teams contradict basic human nature by denying individual team members’ emotional needs and disregarding the fundamental wiring of their brains, according to a new book. Our expert debunks a few huge myths in an article originally published on HR.BLR.com®.
Most of us have experienced burnout, whether personally or having witnessed it among coworkers or subordinates. As a manager, one of the biggest challenges can often be keeping employees motivated.
The “future of work” has been the topic of much conversation of late. It’s not surprising—after all, forewarned is forearmed. With that hunger for credible and actionable predictions in mind, Gallup has identified some “disruptive workplace trends” that employers should take heed of, and begin preparing for, sooner rather than later:
Most employers with traditional defined benefit (DB) plans are interested in transferring their pension plan risk off their books, according to a retirement plan industry think tank that measures pension buyout activity.
The hope is you’ll never have to face the terrifying situation of an active shooter, but it’s wise to be prepared should the worst happen, says Attorney Edwin G. Foulke Jr. Organizations need a plan for how to respond to reduce the risk of devastating consequences.
The line got a huge laugh from the audience, but it was a rueful laugh—it seemed that every HR manager in the audience had an employee who was a patient of Dr. Summeroff. I thought it was a great lesson in real-world HR—not compliance, not policy, but dealing with Dr. Summeroff. Compensation.BLR.com, now thoroughly reved […]