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                                                      March 2014   
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How To Regularly Achieve the Impossible
Predicting Turnover
Call Your Lawyer Before Hiring That HR Executive
How Technology Can Reshape Your Organization
Who Can You Trust?
How Employee Rewards Can Backfire
The Downsides to Undervaluing HR
Do "Good People Know Good People?"
Do You Really Need to Interview a Slate of Candidates?
12 Netflix Business Documentaries to Make You Smarter
5 Myths About Introverts
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Here's our monthly digest of articles to help you hire, retain and inspire great people.  

 

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How to Regularly Achieve the Impossible

 

Mountain Climbing

From time to time, all of us feel like we're asked to do the impossible at work. But few work environments are designed to help employees actually succeed when faced with those daunting situations.


Fortunately, we can all learn from the rare organizations that have figured out how to regularly achieve the impossible - without burning out their team or setting people up to fail. 

 

The SEED Foundation is one of those rare work places. Few organizations tackle anything remotely as complex, challenging or vitally important as it does.

 

See how SEED engineered its culture to achieve results in an arena where so many others have failed. 

 

Scream

How can you tell when one of your employees is planning to quit? And when they do give notice, how can you tell when you should try to make a counteroffer, and when it's simply too late to bother? 

An employee's resignation is the result of multiple interlinking factors, and can be hard to predict - but new research shows there are certain warning signs that could help you predict and prevent turnover. More...

ManThinking
More than any other person in your firm, your top HR executive determines how courageously your managers can manage. When things with an employee go sideways, HR helps to evaluate the potential legal risk of ushering someone out the door before they cause even more damage.

 

I recently discussed how HR helps manage legal risk with my own lawyer, employment super lawyer Rick Vernon. Rick is on virtually every list of Washington's legal elite, and as an employment attorney, he deals first-hand with the staggering costs of employers failing to properly manage risk. More...


Technology Emerging technologies are changing jobs in every organization, but some people are leveraging technology to completely rethink how to deliver value to customers, and it's not just happening in Silicon Valley. 

 

I recently spoke with Iris Rush, the Chief Operating Officer at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) about how technology is reshaping their organization chart. More...

How Do You Know Who You Can Trust?
 

"Decades of scientific research show that people's accuracy in deciding if another can be trusted tends to be only slightly better than chance...because the guidelines most of us use to make such predictions are flawed. We place too much emphasis on reputation and perceived confidence, ignoring the fact that human behavior is always sensitive to context and can often be better assessed by our own intuition.

 

So when your company's money and resources are on the line, how can you do a better job of gauging trustworthiness and thereby improve your likelihood of success?"

 

Here are four points to keep in mind when deciding to do business (or not) with a new partner. 

Are employee of the month awards and other incentives really the best way to motivate people to become (or remain) top performers? New research suggests otherwise - "rewarding employees for good behavior can actually backfire, leading to a drop in motivation and productivity."

If your organization is one of nearly 80% of employers who offer these incentives, it may be time for a change in approach. Here's why.
When You Undervalue HR, You Undercut Your Managers' Effectiveness

AdvisingOne of the fastest ways to sabotage your business results is to hire the cheapest HR professionals you can find. When you saddle your executive team with under-staffed (or under-skilled) HR support, you hobble their performance. 

 

Here's why.

Conventional wisdom says that, "Good people know good people." So it naturally follows that the most common question in recruiting is, "Who do you know who might be good for this job?" Good people will inevitably lead you to other good people, right?

Actually no. It's just not that simple. Here's what you overlook when you think this way.
Do You Really Need to Interview a Slate of Candidates? Or Just One?   

Slate of CandidatesWhen hiring, it's tempting to rush into interviewing, rather than waiting to develop a full slate of candidates. Hiring managers are often eager to interview as soon as they approve a job description. It's a request most HR folks try to oblige. And it's often a mistake.

 

So how do you know when to jump, and when to wait? We've put a lot of thought into this question, and here is our decision process.

Sometimes you would rather veg out in front of the TV instead of reading the latest business book.

 

But now, you can boost your business acumen without all that dull reading. Just get your popcorn ready and dig into these documentaries available on Netflix. More...

5 Myths About Introverts

 

Laptop-3 At long last, the strengths of introversion are being recognized in everyone from students to senior executives. But despite the increased acceptance, there are still some wild misunderstandings about what it means to actually be an introvert. Here are 5 myths that still need to be debunked. More...