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- Leila's House of Corrections: Managing New Employees
- Leila's House of Corrections: Managing New EmployeesEmpty Gestures are DistractingI appreciate the points made in the video and other videos from Leila but, Leila seems to gesture with each syllable. This is very distracting to the message itself.RE: Leila's House of Corrections: Managing New EmployeesA great start Leila. I...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-23
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- Managing New Employees |Leila's House of Corrections
- You never get a second chance to make a good first impression. Learn how to get a new employee focused on the company and excited about the job. If you have questions or suggestions for future video topics, Leila wants to hear from...
- Videos 2008-05-16
- Surviving the First Week in a New Job
- Starting a new job can be daunting for anyone, regardless of experience or rank. The first week, when it is most important to make a good impression and set a precedent for how you will manage your team, can be especially difficult.You can easily view your first week as a...
- Articles 2007-11-27
- Managing For The Future
- From the executive summary: ‘Researches indicate that in the next five to seven years the supply of labor in the U.S. will fall seriously short of demand for skilled and unskilled labor. Experts suggest that such shortages are expected to cut across all industries. With so many people looking for...
- White papers 2003-12-01
- How to Manage Employees in Remote Locations
- In order to get the best out of your far-flung employees, you need to establish a clear communication routine, take extra steps to build trust, and review processes often to make sure they're working for everyone. Build a Strong Team, Starting with You ...
- Articles 2007-09-24
- Coordinating a Volunteer Workforce
- Volunteers are an important part of the business culture. Organizations can leverage volunteers in many ways to help them meet institutional goals. Beyond the obvious economic benefits, volunteerism provides opportunities for individuals to meet their own personal objectives, acquire new skills, and/or contribute to their communities.Volunteers can be found within...
- Articles 2007-02-15
- Identifying, Managing, and Nurturing Top Talent
- Talent is an indicator of one's capacity to learn, grow, and develop new skills for future use. It also suggests how quickly a person or organization can adapt to new challenges. In this article, "talent" is defined as a dormant or untapped quality that lies either in an individual employee...
- Articles 2007-06-27
- Reducing and Managing Workplace Absenteeism
- Productivity loss due to absenteeism is a serious and growing challenge. In the United States, the annual cost to employers for time lost due to accidents is almost $100 billion, and other unscheduled worker absences costs even more. Absence management is a growing body of knowledge and experience that managers...
- Articles 2007-03-27
- Managing Demographic Risk
- The Idea in Brief Around the globe, workforces are steadily aging, thanks to declining birth rates and the graying of the baby boom generation. Soon, boomers will be retiring in droves, taking critical knowledge and skills with...
- Articles 2008-03-03
- Managing Middlescence
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- Articles 2007-11-07
- Part 2: Low Marks for Managing Innovation
- Part 2: Low Marks for Managing InnovationIdea Submission Should Be Normal Part of Strategic PlanningCorporate ideas are frequently lost in cyberspace because few companies have identified the proper workflow for processing ideas. The right solution for most companies is to have a well-designed corporate planning structure that includes one corporate...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-06
- Employees are Brushing Up on Career DIY
- The traditional career deal has changed: self-management is now key While the signs are that job tenure has remained surprisingly consistent, the traditional promise a career for life may not have survived the recesssion. Even Japan, perhaps the last bastion of the job for life seems to have had...
- Blog posts 2009-10-07
- Morph of a Nerd CEO â€" How Hard Will You Work?
- Nerds are used to long hours. But the long hours you spent getting a program to work are nothing like the hours you’ll have to put in if you start a company and have employees. If you’re not prepared to work twelve hours at least six days each week...
- Blog posts 2007-03-27
- Managing in Tough Times and Dealing with Layoffs | BNET Video
- Decisions don't come easy, especially when it comes to managing in a bad economy. Luckily, management consultant Leila Bulling Towne is here to help you through it. In the first of these two new BNET videos, Managing Downturns, Leila offers sound advice on how to address your employees' concerns and...
- Blog posts 2008-11-11
- A New Game Plan for C Players
- The Idea in Brief How to sustain a 23% annual shareholder return? Push your growth rate from 4% to 10% in one year? Triple your market capitalization in three years? Clothing retailer The Limited,...
- Articles 2008-03-10
- The Hidden Costs of Layoffs
- Think downsizing will solve your company's financial woes? These harsh realities may make you think twice. 1. Significant indirect costs often wipe out the direct savings of layoffs. While layoffs may seem like a good way to...
- Articles 2008-06-23
- Assessing Your Entrepreneurial Profile
- Now that you are thinking about starting a business, you will need to think about your own role in it. Are you the type of person who can make a success of a new venture? Being an entrepreneur may sound very exciting, but not everyone has the aptitude. And it...
- Articles 2007-02-28
- CEO Survey: Low Marks for Managing Innovation
- Every company aspires to innovate, but relatively few CEOs understand how to foster innovation. Perhaps the most disturbing CEO “blind spot” we found in the BNET survey surrounded the topic of innovation. CEOs and their employees disagreed dramatically as to whether good...
- Articles 2007-10-30
- Managing Change
- Change, as they say, is the only certainty. Yet most people seek constancy, and struggle continuously to prevent, or adjust to change. At best, these people arrive at a place of "dynamic equilibrium" where the ebbs and flows of life do not result in radical change but allow them to...
- Articles 2007-11-09
- Madrona taps former aQuantive CEO McAndrews as new partner
- Former aQuantive CEO Brian McAndrews has worked in packaged goods, television and, most recently, online advertising.  Now, the 50-year-old executive plans to draw on those experiences -- as well as his board positions at startup companies -- to give the venture capital business a try.Madrona Venture Group today plans to announce that McAndrews is...
- News items 2009-08-13
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