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Management In Real Life: Improving Performance: The Five-Step Plan

By Kevin Herring, President, Ascent Management Consulting, March, 09, 2010 - When we go to a doctor for a health problem, the doctor will ask a few questions, poke us where it hurts, and often write a prescription for whatever ails us. In a few days, all will be well again. If the doctor doesn't bother to examine us, and simply prescribes the same treatment for everyone, we head for a second opinion. With no examination, how would the doctor diagnose our problem and know how to treat it?  more...
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Doing More With Less: Paying for Performance in the New Economic Reality

By Lori Wisper, Senior Consultant, Hewitt Associates, March, 05, 2010 - The "great recession" of 2008-2009 has resulted in unprecedented cost-cutting actions for most organizations - especially cuts related to compensation. The issue of how economic conditions have impacted overall compensation costs (and how to effectively manage those costs) has painted 2009 and 2010 as a period like no other in recent memory.  more...
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Nurturing a New Manager

By John Reed, Managing Principal, Corporate Psychologist and Executive Coach, QRA, March, 02, 2010 - Executive coaching creates opportunities to work with senior leaders who present an interesting mix of strengths, experience and opportunities for development. Quite different -- but just as interesting -- is coaching with executives taking on their first management role. In preparing to work with these clients, it helps to understand how the world looks to people making this early career step, and how we as bosses, mentors or coaches can best position new managers to meet challenges and contribute.  more...
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Management In Real Life: Plugging the Reality Gap

By Kevin Herring, President, Ascent Management Consulting, February, 10, 2010 - At the end of the year we sometimes find ourselves wondering about somebody we haven't seen in years. Time and distance seem to make it hard to stay in touch. But being in touch can be just as much a problem between people working in the same general facilities day after day as for old friends swapping Christmas cards across the country. Often, the disconnect shows up in the worst possible ways.  more...
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The Hidden Gift Your Gen Y Employees Are Offering You

By David Lee, Consultant, HumanNature@Work, February, 03, 2010 - Yesterday, I read one of those "10 Tips for... " type of articles on how to manage the Millennial or Gen Y employee. They included recommendations such as:  more...
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When We're 65

By Joe Kovacs, Freelance Writer, , January, 06, 2010 - The utility industry is getting older. By some estimates, nearly half of today's workforce will be eligible for retirement in the next decade. Years of hard-won knowledge seem doomed to disappear just as utilities are implementing smart grid initiatives and benefiting from improved data collection and opportunities for advanced customer communications and energy efficiency. Is this a perfect storm?  more...
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Five Ugly Numbers That You Can't Ignore - It's Time to Calculate Hiring Failures

By Dr. John Sullivan, , Dr. John Sullivan and Associates, December, 03, 2009 - Some numbers indicate failure so clearly that you can't help but pay attention to them.  more...
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Management In Real Life: My Contribution

By Kevin Herring, President, Ascent Management Consulting, November, 19, 2009 - Have you ever sat around griping about a boss, manager, or co-worker who doesn't "get it" or acts like they know it all? You're not alone; my hand goes up, too. Once when I was dosing out a hefty portion of criticism about an executive I found difficult to work with, a good friend of mine asked, "So what are you doing to contribute to the problem?"  more...
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B-29 Leadership

By Kevin Herring, President, Ascent Management Consulting, October, 16, 2009 - After nearly 25 years of working with leaders I know I can get a bit obsessed with extracting leadership lessons from some of the most obscure experiences. But these lessons leaped right out when a World War II veteran described his experiences as a member of a B-29 bomber crew. Even though the point of what he had to say had nothing to do with leadership, I was fascinated with the lessons embedded in his message.  more...
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How to Get Ready for a Surge in Replacement Hiring

By Lou Adler, President, The Adler Group, October, 01, 2009 - Over the past few months, I've been tracking employee satisfaction vs. job hunting activity. Here's the link so you can take the survey yourself, see the results, and forward it to others.  more...
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