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Why Are Business Owners Experiencing Workers Compensation Rate Increases?

Why Are Business Owners Experiencing Workers Compensation Rate Increases?

Workers’ compensation insurance rates have experienced a steady rate increase over the past few years, as you have probably noticed. If you’re an employer that Read More

Talent Derailed

Talent Derailed

What is a leader to do when one of their top team members starts to fade? What happens with high potentials that lose their shine? Read More

Are Your HR Practices Helping or Hurting Your Workers Compensation Premiums?

Are Your HR Practices Helping or Hurting Your Workers Compensation Premiums?

Time and time again, I see employers hurting themselves with their human resource policies. Poor policies (or lack of policies) can directly affect their workers Read More

Exploring Executive Compensation for Your Growing Business

Exploring Executive Compensation for Your Growing Business

Executives are important to your business in a number of ways, and are often the backbone behind huge growth, innovative changes, and the ultimate success Read More

Ten Article Recommendations on the Topic of Corporate Culture

Ten Article Recommendations on the Topic of Corporate Culture

Corporate culture has been described as “the values and behaviors that contribute to the unique social and psychological environment of the organization.” Culture Read More

Three Ways to Develop High Potentials

Three Ways to Develop High Potentials

Once you’ve identified high potentials in your company, you want to do what is best to turn them into the best leaders they can be, Read More

Creating an Effective Employee Pay Structure

Creating an Effective Employee Pay Structure

Determining the best way to compensate employees is difficult.  Pay too little, and your best people will leave.  Pay too much and your cost structure Read More

3 Steps to Give Your New Hires a Terrible Onboarding Experience

3 Steps to Give Your New Hires a Terrible Onboarding Experience

Do you want to make sure that your new employees are dazed and confused from day one? Do you know the secret to keeping them Read More

Does Your Culture Match Your Business Model?

Does Your Culture Match Your Business Model?

An understanding how organizational culture and business service models align is the bedrock foundation to form strategy upon – yet this critical relationship is often Read More

[Podcast] Daniel Pink on Motivation: How to Inspire Employees to Perform

[Podcast] Daniel Pink on Motivation: How to Inspire Employees to Perform

Daniel is a New York Times best-selling author, a former White House speechwriter and a featured keynote speaker in the upcoming ThinkBIG:Vistage 2013 International Member Read More

Talent Management: Start With A Strategic Workforce Plan

Talent Management: Start With A Strategic Workforce Plan

You’ve likely heard the term workforce planning, but what makes a workforce plan strategic?

If you’re looking to improve your talent pool and bring success Read More

Healthcare Accountability: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Healthcare Accountability: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

In one of my past articles, I showed why we need to make employees more accountable for their health costs — now the third Read More

Three Ways To Keep High Potential Talent Happy

Three Ways To Keep High Potential Talent Happy

With the unpredictability of the job market these days it probably comes as no surprise that job satisfaction is on a downswing.  Even those fortunate Read More

CEOs Need to Resolve This Healthcare Conflict of Interest

CEOs Need to Resolve This Healthcare Conflict of Interest

At the risk of ruffling a few feathers in my own supply chain (yikes!), I think it’s time to finally talk honestly about one of Read More

3 Human Resources Trends Driving Innovation

3 Human Resources Trends Driving Innovation

What are the hottest topics in human resources these days? That question was answered for us recently when we attended the 2012 HCI Human Capital Read More

Send the Right Message: Reward Performance

Send the Right Message: Reward Performance

Human Resources initiatives don’t need to be chalk full of meaningless forms and pointless training sessions that don’t bring value to your role. In fact, Read More

[Podcast] How to Effectively Hire and Nurture Your “A” Level Team

[Podcast] How to Effectively Hire and Nurture Your “A” Level Team

Sought-after business mentor Cameron Herold on:

Interviewing…

  • Should screen candidates for introspection, values, and emotional intelligence – these are the types of traits that demonstrate
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[Podcast] Building Foundations of Trust: How “Cultures of Communication” Drive Results

[Podcast] Building Foundations of Trust: How “Cultures of Communication” Drive Results

Vistage speaker and leadership expert Dr. Gustavo Grodnitzky shares:

The relationship between culture and communication…

  • Culture influences behavior, and should trump strategy and personality in
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When You’re Green You’re Growing, When You’re Ripe You’re Dead

When You’re Green You’re Growing, When You’re Ripe You’re Dead

The above title was an infamous line of McDonald’s CEO Ray Kroc. He was always learning from the best.

Too often CEOs get stuck. Year Read More

Hiring Failure: Hiring Mistake #2 – Superficial Interviewing

Hiring Failure: Hiring Mistake #2 – Superficial Interviewing

Next to not defining success, which I covered in my last blog post, superficial interviewing is the second most common mistake made in the hiring Read More

Why Hiring Fails: Hiring Mistake #1: Inadequate Job Descriptions

Why Hiring Fails: Hiring Mistake #1: Inadequate Job Descriptions

In one of my last blog posts, I mentioned that I would take the Study we did within the Vistage/TEC Community on Hiring Failure before Read More

Are We There Yet?

Are We There Yet?

I have triplet three year-old girls. While I avoid long car trips like the plague, they do come up occasionally. When traveling with the girls, Read More

Human Resources and Social Media

Human Resources and Social Media

I’m still deciding if HR can be friends with social media. (Or is it the other way around?) On one hand, it’s a fantastic way Read More

Three Ideas to Have a Healthy Workforce without an Expensive Health Plan

Three Ideas to Have a Healthy Workforce without an Expensive Health Plan

You are familiar with some of the health insurance hot topics in the media. From Health Care Reform to wellness programs to Medicare Part D Read More

Change Anything: A Leader’s Guide to Improving Employee Performance

Change Anything: A Leader’s Guide to Improving Employee Performance

The October Surprise

In October 2006, Geoff received startling news. His new manager announced in his performance review that his colleagues hated working with him. Read More