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Ten Tips for Conducting Employee Performance Reviews: No company can function for very long without a team of productive employees supporting it. It's important not only that employees' feel appreciated, but that they also feel they are progressing steadily in their careers. One of the best ways to ensure this level of job satisfaction is by holding...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, AllBusiness.com, career, team, job; White papers
Giving with One Hand...: Proven: altruism will make you happier. This should cheer Arpad 'Arki' Busson of hedge-fund investor EIM, who is just about to hold a fundraising dinner for his seven-year-old charity ARK ('Absolute Return for Kids'). The annual shindig is famously high-powered -- last year Busson...; Tags: Workplace, Volunteer, Busson, Recruitment & Selection, Professional Development, Team Management, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Career, Management, Finance, BNET UK Staff; Blog posts 2008-06-04
Words of Bizdom: As part of the BNET Australia official launch, we're inviting all our readers to submit their best piece of managerial advice and go into the running to win some great wine prizes. We've all heard great pieces of advice from the great business people we've encountered through...; Tags: Advice, Professional Development, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Team Management, Microsoft Office, Career, Office Suites, Software, Management, Brian Haverty; Blog posts 2008-04-30
CEO Survey: Understanding the Generation Gap: Age gaps between CEOs and employees explain some performance ratings. The lukewarm evaluations of CEOs also may point to a generation gap between typically baby boomer-era upper management and Gen X- and Gen Y-age employees and managers. Several experts pointed out that...; Tags: Employee, Survey, CEO, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Ethan Watters, Team Management, Professional Development, Management, Career, Leadership, BNET Feature; Articles 2007-10-30
Office Politicos: A Field Guide: Every workplace has its share of good guys and bad, solo artists and team players. To get ahead — or even just survive — you need to know them all: the good eggs who can become your allies, and the bad apples to avoid or occasionally placate. Here’s a handy...; Tags: Kelly Pate Dwyer, workplace, team; Articles 2007-07-09

Top Seven Workplace Plays and Maneuvers: All office politicking relies upon a simple concept: the biggest help and the biggest hindrance to reaching your goals is other people. What’s the right way to win friends and influence people? The most effective moves build alliances, sell your ideas, and solve problems. They also involve risk — so...; Tags: Team management, Strategy, Kelly Pate Dwyer, coworker, office politics, consultant, team, Human Resources, alliance, workplace, vision, software, e-mail, environment; Articles 2007-07-02
Top-Down Productivity: Three senior managers use David Allen’s personal-productivity system to get the most out of their teams. Making GTD a Team Sport Who: Steve Kowalski, Director of Learning & Development Where: Genentech When: Started GTD in 2002...; Tags: Team management, Microsoft Office, Robert Landon, Genentech Inc., biomedical, Palm Treo, training, Palm Inc., team, Microsoft Outlook, director, e-mail, smart phone, mouse, worker, Microsoft Corp., marketing, software, phone; Articles 2007-02-08
How to Sell an Idea: Got an idea that could kick your career into overdrive? Confirm That You and Your Idea Are a Credible Match GOAL: Make sure an appropriate messenger will deliver your message. Selling ideas is not like selling products. With a product, customers...; Tags: Professional development, Semiconductors, Geoffrey James, Texas Instruments Inc., career, computer chip, team, strategy, mainframe, food, computer, chip, TV, environment, marketing, performance; Articles 2007-03-19
Setting Clear Objectives: When you set a clear objective, you or your direct reports are able to focus attention and energy on a concrete aspiration—anything from a small task to a career ambition. In fact, it’s not really important how small or large the objective is, so long as the decisions you make...; Tags: Team management, BNET Editorial, aspiration, Management By Objective, team, image, career, game; Articles 2007-12-13
Surviving Product Management: Product managers, through their efforts, have great potential to make a lasting impact on companies and entire industries. Exceptional product managers are marked by a passion to make their products, engineering staffs, and sales persons the stars of their companies. They are content to be the enablers of accomplishment and...; Tags: Pragmatic Marketing Inc., product manager, career, team, strategy, sales, industry; White papers 2007-12-01
Katzenbach Partners Profile, Pt. 2: How Collaboration Helped the Company and its Clients Grow: Just as young consultants are drawn to Katzenbach Partners by the promise of a larger and more fluid role, big-name clients like Aetna and Pfizer come to the firm knowing that they too will be joining forces to attack the challenge at hand. "We have a...; Tags: Jeff Palfini, collaboration, Zia Khan, Katzenbach Partners; Blog posts 2007-12-10
How to Get Yourself on the CEO Track: Despite all the scandals involving chief executive officers, there still seems to be a hunger for insights about how to become one. On the basis of my years of contacts with CEOs, I'd start with these guidelines: Give yourself a head start. You have to have the...; Tags: Professional development, Team management, William J. Holstein; Blog posts 2007-11-12
Remember What You Learned in Grade School?: Many of us had that teacher in grade school that instituted a behavioral management system rooted in positive reinforcement in a last-ditch effort to tame the wild and unfocused masses of 7-year-old boys and girls unleashed upon them by stressed parents each morning. The carrot was simple, yet oddly abstract:...; Tags: Professional development, Team management, Jeff Palfini, team; Blog posts 2007-11-11
10 Fatal Career Moves: It takes anywhere from three to 15 months to find the right job - yet just days or weeks to lose it. This paper explains 10 traits that are career poison: possessing poor people skills; not being a team player; missing deadlines; conducting personal business on company time; isolating yourself;...; Tags: Professional development, career, team, job; White papers 2007-09-24
Workers, Like Plants, Only Thrive in the Right Environment: Writing for the Harvard Business Review Discussion Leaders, Tammy Erickson asks her reader to imagine a scenario: You're looking for a new job and interview with three companies. All of them offer excellent career opportunities and compensation, but they differ greatly in terms of how they would structure your entry...; Tags: Leadership, Company-A, environment, Jessica Stillman, worker, Tammy Erickson; Blog posts 2007-10-19
Motivating Team Members: Organizational success has always depended on delivering results through teamwork. However, with the increasing prevalence of flat, networked, and matrix structures, effective teamwork is becoming even more criticalIn these types of organizational structures, individuals come together—forming teams—for the duration of a project or for the amount of time it takes...; Tags: Team management, Leadership, BNET Editorial, motivation, team, teamwork, leader, technique, organizational structure, adjustment, career; Articles 2007-10-24
Preparing a Succession Plan: If you’re planning to retire from your small business in the near future, or you simply want to hand over the reins to someone else, it’s important to plan carefully for your succession. Planning will help you to protect the value of your business. As the owner-manager of a business,...; Tags: BNET Editorial, succession, succession planning, consultant, entrepreneurial, business strategy, decision-making, financial, consulting, career, small business, supplier, team, benefit; Articles 2007-10-05
How to Assemble a Team of Mentors: Decades ago many employees planned to spend their whole career at one company. These days the typical worker is likely to change jobs six or more times. So if in the past the standard advice was to find a mentor, the new advice, featured this week on Forbes.com, is find...; Tags: Professional development, Team management, Recruitment & Selection, Jessica Stillman, mentor, career, team; Blog posts 2007-08-22
Ask Not What Your Company Can Do For Youâ€¦: Caterpillar builds multi-terrain loaders, hydraulic excavators, and other heavy equipment. They also teach their managers to nurture direct reports. While this may conjure up visions of awkward team-building exercises, or courses on developing interpersonal skills, Caterpillar's goal is very pragmatic. According to an article from Workforce Management, they do it...; Tags: Team management, Workforce management, training and certification, Leadership, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Leslie Leite, Caterpillar Inc.; Blog posts 2007-07-09
Creating Successful Teams With Emotional Intelligence: The bottom-line impact of team skills such as communication, conflict resolution, and sharing are only now getting acknowledged in professional organizations. Yet the idea that athletes require superior teamwork has long been recognized as critical to a sports team's success. Emotional intelligence is the ability to recognize and manage one's...; Tags: Team management, Leadership, emotional intelligence, conflict resolution, teamwork, team; White papers 2007-01-01