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...Managers, right? Have you heard that before? What are you doing, or what is your company doing, to make sure your managers have what it takes to keep your best employees? I just posted the following article on another blog, and thought it would also be appropriate here.

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In this great article from the HR Executive Online, Leslie Stevens-Huffman explores the power and effect of developing internal competencies in Critical Thinking and Creativity. To underscore the evolution of training and development in the workforce, Stevens-Huffman highlights the tremendous efforts Jim Hackett, CEO of Steelcase, has undergone to ensure these core competencies company-wide. As with many case studies you’ll read on any number of innovative programs, this is an example of the

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Best Practices Roundtable Discussion
Monday, October 19, 2009
Courtyard Marriott Portsmouth
1000 Market Street Portsmouth, NH


The NHRA is hosting an informative session with seasoned HR professionals to help each other develop strategies in each of three challenging areas:

• Screening and Selection – Improving the quality of new hires.


• Leave Integration – Tracking leaves and integration of benefits.


• Compensation for Performance – Increases based on merit in the current

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I was told once that the way to determine whether the glass if half full or half empty is to know whether your filling the glass or emptying it. If it started out empty, it’s easy to see the glass as half full; if it started out full, you’re likely to feel that it has become half-empty. Following that logic, I suggest that the glass of our economy is half full.

“What I can tell you is that we are seeing signs of improvement. Layoffs, although we are still having them, seem to be leveling off a… Continue