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The Latest Management Trend - Brightsizing
The Latest Management Trend and Why it is Dangerous to Your Organization - looks at what brightsizing is and what you can do to protect your organization from it

Mentors and Mentoring: Being a Mentor
There is little that can give you the satisfaction of being a mentor. Mentoring: what is a mentor, finding a mentor, how to be a mentor.

What Good People Really Cost
What Good People Really Cost looks at the high cost of replacing employees lost to layoffs, attrition, or resignations.

The Right People in the Wrong Jobs
The Right People in the Wrong Jobs - how you can make your people, and yourself, more productive and happier at the same time, from John Reh, your About.com Guide to Management

Napping at Work is OK?
Napping at Work is OK reviews the changing attitudes toward sleeping at work, from John Reh, your About.com Guide to Management.

The Lesson of the Red Horse
The Lesson of the Red Horse stresses the importance of employee motivation and its effect on performance, from your About.com Guide to Management

You Have Been Fired!
Whether it's called downsizing or laid off or fired it still hurts. Here is how to tell if the axe is about to fall.

Employee Benefits as a Management Tool
Employee Benefits as a Management Tool - how to keep your best employees happy and how to keep them period, from John Reh, your About.com Guide to Management

Larry Doesn't Work Here Anymore
For employee retention employee motivation is key, like putting the right person in the right job.

Alternatives to Layoffs
Reducing the workforce has become an automatic response for companies who need to cut costs to look good for Wall Street. It's wrong. It's counter-productive. It should be a last resort, not a first choice for a skilled executive.

What You Need To Know About Surviving Layoffs.
Surviving layoffs or RIF means learning these coping survival skills for managers and employees

Managing Change: Managing People's Fear
Managing Change, Managing People's Fear. Change is natural and good. People's reaction to change is unpredictable and irrational, but can be managed. By John Reh

Are Your Top People Ready To Leave You?
Are Your Top People Ready To Leave You? looks at the warning signs and suggests employee satisfaction and retention strategies

Cross Training Employees
Cross training is training someone in another activity that is related to their current work. It saves you money and makes them happier.

Offshoring - Outsourcing To Extreme
Companies have been outsourcing work for many years. This trend has been carried to an extreme in the case of offshoring - sending work and jobs to other countries where labor is cheaper.

Golf As A Team Building Exercise
Team building exercises and icebreakers can help build a sense of team in your people, helping them find the team in teamwork. Golf or golfing works well, even with non-golfers.

Bowling As A Team Building Exercise
Team building exercises and icebreakers can help build a sense of team in your people, helping them find the team in teamwork. Bowling works well, even with non-bowlers.

Meeting Management
Tips for meeting management to make your meetings more productive.

There Is No "I" In Team
Sports teams not always a good analogy for building teams and teamwork in workplace business environment.

Mentors and Mentoring: What is a mentor?
There is little that can give you the satisfaction of being a mentor. Mentoring: what is a mentor, finding a mentor, how to be a mentor

Mentors and Mentoring: Finding a Mentor
There is little that can give you the satisfaction of being a mentor. Mentoring: what is a mentor, finding a mentor, how to be a mentor.

Your Boss Is Watching You
More companies are monitoring their employees electronically. Why? What can you do about it?

Performance Management Instead of Layoffs
It costs too much to leave an incompetent manager in place. If the employee won't request a return to a level at which they were competent, the company must take action.

Office Romance
Office romance is fairly common these days as the office is where we spend so much of our time. Handled well it can lead to a relationship. Handled badly it can lead to a lawsuit for harassment.

New Employee Training - Is It Worth The Investment
Getting off on the right foot. New Employee training - is it worth the investment?

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