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- Learn to manage employees' energy in order to increase productivity
Businesses seeking to take full advantage of the recovery will need to make sure their employees are engaged with their work, this article suggests. While many companies focused on the bottom line during the recession, maintaining a breakneck pace will eventually burn workers out. Great managers concentrate on directing an employee's focus instead of trying to micromanage all their time, the authors note. American Management Association (free registration)
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- Tips for giving more-effective presentations
Giving an effective presentation starts with understanding the people to whom you're speaking and tailoring what you say to match the audience, says business communications specialist and INSEAD professor Steve Knight. Confidence and good stage presence can help engage the audience, he notes, while having a varied set of slides keeps your presentations from getting stale. Knowledge.insead.edu
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- Cutting meetings, training may hurt in long run
It might be short-sighted to cancel off-site meetings or training to cut costs, Fred Cook writes. Face-to-face meetings boost morale, strengthen relationships and generate ideas, he notes, while training promotes engagement by showing workers that their employer is "investing in their future." Forbes
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- OPM plans to strengthen hiring policies for the disabled
The Office of Personnel Management announced last week that it will hold a career fair and provide training designed to boost the number of disabled employees on the federal payroll. The number of disabled government workers has declined since 2000, despite efforts by the administration of President George W. Bush to boost the tally. "As the nation's largest employer, the federal government and its contractors can lead the way by implementing effective employment policies and practices that increase opportunities and help workers achieve their full potential," President Barack Obama said in a statement. Government Executive
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- 10 flawed assumptions about managing people
Human resources must challenge its own assumptions about how to best manage people, Bob Sutton writes. Some of the "flawed" practices include breeding individual talent instead of focusing on teams and networks, and emphasizing a shared vision among workers instead of fostering individual creativity, he writes. Bob Sutton's Work Matters blog
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- Report finds reduced attrition levels at TSA
The Transportation Security Administration has made progress in reducing attrition among executive staffers, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office. The report applauded the agency for implementing exit surveys of departing employees and for clearly outlining its merit-based staffing requirements. Homeland Security Today
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- Bill could dismantle Pentagon's pay-for-performance plan
The Defense Department's National Security Personnel System would be disbanded under a bill that has cleared the House. While President Barack Obama has said he plans to veto the bill, the language of the pay-system overhaul is likely to reappear in a revised version of the measure. Experts say that terminating the NSPS would not necessarily mean the end of all government pay-for-performance proposals. Federal Times
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Webcast: Thinking on Your Feet
We've all been there. At an important business meeting you're quickly introduced to four potential clients and within seconds your brain takes a hike and you forget their names. This situation requires different skills from those usually associated with making a presentation. Since you don't have the time to prepare in advance, you need a set of tools that you can call upon at a moment's notice -- a sort of communication "cheat sheet" stored in your brain for just such emergencies. This free webcast gives you useful tips for handling what to say when you weren't planning on saying anything at all. Oct. 28, noon to 1 p.m. Sign up today.
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Podcast: William Schiemann on Reinventing Talent Management
 Over the past 10 or so years talent management has become something of an HR hurrah term. The extent to which all the hubbub has led to tangible results is quite another issue. Dr. William Schiemann's Reinventing Talent Management: How to Maximize Performance in the New Marketplace aims to put a tight process and discipline of measurement behind the annual report cliché that "Our people are our most important asset." At the heart of Dr. Schiemann's thesis is a provocative new talent-management model he terms People Equity. Listen now.
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What helps you become a better manager?
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Talking with your employees regularly |
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