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Top Ten Ways to Retain Your Great Employees: Key employee retention is critical to the long term health and success of the business. Managers readily agree that retaining the best employees ensures customer satisfaction, product sales, satisfied coworkers and reporting staff, effective succession planning and deeply imbedded organizational knowledge and learning. If managers can cite these facts so...; Tags: coworker, succession planning, knowledge, customer satisfaction, training, health care, job; White papers
How to Win at Office Politics: Like it or not, every workplace is a political environment. But operating effectively within it doesn’t have to mean sucking up, lying, or slinging dirt. In its purest form, office politics is simply about getting from here to there: securing a promotion, seeing an idea come to fruition, or gaining...; Tags: Professional development, Kelly Pate Dwyer, career, workplace, Microsoft Office, Human Resources, game, e-mail, environment; Articles 2007-07-02
When a Colleague Refuses to Travel: THE SCENARIO: A member of my three-person team refuses to travel, even though that was a condition of his hire. The job requires us to attend several trade shows a year, and his refusal means that my other coworker and I must pick up the slack. We don't mind the...; Tags: Team management, Workforce management, Where's The Line?, team, coworker, supervisor, job; Blog posts 2007-12-06
Research Shows Why You Are Always Right: Have you ever worked with someone who's always right? You know, one of those people who can always find a reason why a customer, client, or coworker is to blame for their personal shortcomings.Â Poorly preparedÂ presentation? The client lacks vision. Accounting error?Â Faulty software. Disagreement about corporate strategy? It's all you're fault...; Tags: Strategy, Lori Deschene, Always-Right; Blog posts 2007-11-12
Staying in the Loop When Telecommuting: Telecommuting allows you to have full-time employment and a steady paycheck while experiencing the independence enjoyed by the self-employed. You can dress comfortably and avoid the hassles of commuting, saving substantially on gas and parking or public transportation. You also have a quiet workspace to yourself, making it easy to...; Tags: BNET Editorial, telecommuting, coworker, workspace, career, downsizing, Microsoft Office, supervisor, transportation, team, phone line, phone, environment, workplace, photograph, network, marketing, performance, job, e-mail; Articles 2007-10-31

Perfect Phrases For Managers And Supervisors: Communication is the single most important key to a manager's success. What you say - and how you say it - sets the tone for every personal interaction, whether you're dealing with a troublesome employee, a competitive coworker, or a demanding boss. Yet few people are actually trained to handle...; Tags: Workforce management, Leadership, McGraw-Hill Companies, coworker, supervisor, communication skill, workplace, leader, tool; Book chapters 2007-10-01
Working around Personality Clashes: Many people blame conflicts on personality clashes, but what we perceive as personality clashes may, in fact, be something quite different. Each of us has our own unique mix of attributes and beliefs that make up our personalities. If we clashed with everyone who is different from us, we would...; Tags: Team management, BNET Editorial, coworker, team, knowledge; Articles 2007-10-11
Surviving Your Worst Meeting Nightmares: Surviving Your Worst Meeting NightmaresIf Someone falls asleep you should...We have a boss at my company - he is actually a fairly senior level commander of a military organization - who has mastered the art of falling asleep in meetings, even those that he has called. While it is...; Tags: coworker; Discussion threads 2007-04-10
Getting In: Using Strategy in the Admissions Process: We're currently focusing on getting into grad school. To recap, we can divide the different requirements of the admissions process into two main categoriesÂ -- what you can control and what you can't. Last time, we got the easy stuff out of the way: The application and the official undergraduate transcript....; Tags: Team management, Jenna Miller, coworker, admission, strategy; Blog posts 2007-09-19
"Superbad" Office Comedy: My work buddy and I love to quote lines from our favorite comedy shows and movies. It's kind of our thing. This past weekend, we went to see the movie "Superbad" and came back to the office on Monday dropping lines to each other when our paths crossed.Later that same...; Tags: Where's The Line?, Microsoft Office, Superbad, coworker, movie; Blog posts 2007-08-22
Using Kids as an Escape Clause: A female coworker is always showing up late and leaving early because of some "emergency" involving her kids. I dont have any children, and this irks me. I know that having children is a big responsibility, but others in my office make it work. I feel as though shes using...; Tags: Where's The Line?, coworker; Blog posts 2007-03-30
Shake It Up: Alternative Meeting Strategies: Tired of typical conference-room confabs? Try these creative meeting techniques used by companies like Yahoo!, Ritz Carlton, and Old Navy. Ritz-Carlton Meeting Technique:Start each shift with short stand-up meetings Pros:Quickly disseminates critical information Cons:Not long enough to go in-depth on any...; Tags: Operational accounting, Cyrus Farivar, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., wine, food, Yahoo! Inc., payment processing, JIT, Hurricane Katrina, billing, customer service, technique, payment, team, environment, strategy; Articles 2007-04-09
Hiring Checklist: Hiring the wrong person is a grave mistake. The wrong employee can create negative energy, harass or discriminate against coworkers, create bad press, use up every day of sick leave, steal from you, and sue your company. The right employee can create positive energy, empower coworkers, create new business opportunities...; Tags: Team management, Recruitment & Selection, coworker, hiring, team; Tools & templates 2004-01-21
Influences on Employee Turnover: The article shows that employees would love their jobs, like their coworkers, work hard for their employers, get paid well for their work, have ample chances for advancement, and flexible schedules so they could attend to personal or family needs when necessary. And never leave. But then there’s the real...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, coworker, job; White papers 2003-01-01

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LiveSpa to Debut in June 2008: New Magazine and Web site will Help Consumers Live Happy. Live Healthy. LiveSpa. LEXINGTON, Ky., May 6 /PRNewswire/ -- With one out of four Americans having visited a spa, chances are that if you have not been to one, you know someone who has. Most people learn...; Articles 2008-05-06
U.S. District Court, Western District of New York Case Summaries:: U.S. District Court, Western District of New York Discrimination Sexual Harassment Ludwig v. Rochester Psychiatric Center 05-CV-6267L Judge Larimer Background: The plaintiff has brought this suit for illegal discrimination under Title VII...; Articles 2008-05-05
Tulsa nursing home sex harassment case settled: Wildwood Care Center and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission have settled a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by a former employee of the Tulsa nursing home, EEOC officials announced Friday. Wildwood has agreed to pay $25,000 and train managers and workers about sexual harassment. ...; Articles 2008-05-05
Chesco victim is missed by more than one family: The packing room at an Avondale mushroom farm was described as eerily "quiet and sad" on Friday. Jackie Lugo, human-resources director for Modern Mushroom Farms Inc., said workers were mourning the loss of their colleague Daicy Vasquez-Bedolla. About five miles away, the victim's mother, Hermila Bedolla Vasquez, sat solemnly in...; Articles 2008-05-04
Teller recounts being shot, losing her twins: INDIANAPOLIS -- A pregnant bank teller who lost the twins she was carrying after being shot during a holdup choked back tears Saturday as she recalled lying on the bank's floor, bleeding and pleading for help, as the gunman demanded money from her co-workers. Katherin Shuffield, 30,...; Articles 2008-05-04
Appellate Division, 3rd Department Case Summaries: May 2, 2008: Appellate Division, 3rd Department Unemployment Misconduct -- Insubordination Mills v. Miteq, Inc. 503392 Appealed from the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board Background: The claimant appeals from a decision of...; Articles 2008-05-02