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By:Cheryl Cran
Been Busy Hiring?
5 Ways to Keep the People You Have Hired and Get Them Up to Speed Quickly
It has been a busy time for recruiting. Have you and your company recruited strategically? Or did you just go for the 鈥榳arm body\’ to fill a position.
Strategic recruiting means you will get new hires up to speed quicker and increase the likelihood that new hires will stick around longer then you can say 鈥榩ay period鈥?
An organization I have worked with provides HVAC services to developers in Portland. Last year they held a management retreat strictly focused on strategic hiring. In the retreat they listed the characteristics of a perfect employee for their company. Then they listed the common traits that long term, high performing employees had in common. They quickly discovered that their ideal demographic was men in their late 20\’s or early 30 who enjoyed hunting and fishing. Wait a sec, you might be asking what does hunting or fishing have to do with recruiting? Well if you are creative you will quickly put two and two together and know that hiring around lifestyle is a very smart thing to do. So guess where the HVAC Company went to recruit? Yup, the local hunting and fishing games show and they recruited six 鈥榩erfect profile\’ employees into the company.
The HVAC Company described above did the first step in keeping the people they recruited and getting them up to speed quickly.
Step One: Have a strategy before recruiting; take the time to identify theperfect fit, what their interests are, where to find them and how your company fits into their lifestyle. One reason the HVAC Company had men interested in hunting and fishing is because the company owner was an avid outdoorsmen and he would take his entire team on hunting and fishing excursions as reward and as incentive.
Step Two: If it\’s too late and you didn\’t hire strategically it is never too late to have a training and retention strategy. Find out what their lifestyle interests are, how can you tailor reward and incentive around the lifestyles of your employees?
In a survey conducted by Right Management 2006 showed that 68% surveyed stated
bad hires and promotions lead to lower morale, 66% said it led to lower productivity, 54% said it causes loss of customers and 51% said bad hires/promotions increased training costs.
Step three:Provide the training. Many baby boomer leaders expect new hires to have common sense or to just know what needs to be done. Stephen Covey says; fail to plan-plan to fail. We need to set up our new hires for success by providing them with the training to do the job at the highest level. Among surveyed CIO\’s in order to retain employees: 63% are providing additional training opportunities and 47% are providing flexible work schedules (Robert Half Technology Survey of 1400 CIO\’s)
Step four: Cross-train. Bringnew hiresup to super speed by having them cross train with cross-functional departments. Employees that have a deeper understanding of the overall company operations tend to buy in faster to the culture, the goals and their role in the company success. Set up a simple process of buddy system information sessions for example pairing an operations role with a sales role and let them see a day in the life of each other\’s department. It is eye opening and builds team at the same time.
Step Five: Create outlets for fun. I know when I bring this one up people balk especially us Canadians. What do you mean fun? It\’s called work for a reason, is a typical baby boomer response to the 鈥榝un\’ word. In my research even tired and burned out baby boomers are looking for a little levity along with their Generation X and Y counterparts.
Survey results from,鈥?Fun Work Environment Survey,\” Sponsored by the Society for Human Resource Management
Companies who have 鈥榝un\’ plans in the workplace:
79% companies had reductions in turnover
72% companies had decreases in absenteeism
72% companies saw reductions in employee conflicts
95% indicated an increase in the ability to attract new employees
95% of the respondents reported increases in employee enthusiasm as a result of the fun.
94% experienced an increase in group cohesiveness
93% had increased communications among employees and employee satisfaction
92% saw an increase in employee creativity
If you have made it through the first 90 days of a new hire and you have training and retention plan in place then you are in good shape. If your hiring strategy is hit and miss and your training strategy is sink or swim and your retention strategy is that they should just be happy to get a paycheck you could find yourself on the hiring/re-hiring treadmill indefinitely. By the way the HVAC Company in Portland has a 95% retention rate in a very complex industry with a steep learning curve.
Cheryl Cran, CSP (Certified Speaking Professional) is the author of 鈥?0 Ways to Lead & Love It鈥?and the January 2008 release by Career Press titled, 鈥淭he Control Freak Revolution鈥? Check out Cheryl\’s site www.cherylcran.com to find out more.
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Cheryl is the President of Synthesis at Work Inc. and an internationally renowned keynote speaker. She provides practical tools and creative strategies for individuals to take their current level of success and boldly grow it to the next level. The companies that Cheryl works with are top performing organizations with a strong focus on becoming a workplace of choice. The leaders of these organizations recognize the value of investing in the growth of their employees for overall company success. Cheryl is a bold growth seeker herself and continually challenges herself to grow, learn and expand as much as she challenges others to do the same.Replica Watches
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By:Ainuddin Mohamad Mohamad
If you\’ve ever read an article about eBay, you will have seen the kinds of incomes people make - it isn\’t unusual to hear of people making thousands of dollars per month on eBay.
Next time you\’re on eBay, take a look at how many PowerSellers there are: you\’ll find quite a few. Now consider that every single one of one of them must be making at least $1,000 per month, as that\’s eBay\’s requirement for becoming a PowerSeller. Silver PowerSellers make at least $3,000 each month, while Gold PowerSellers make more than $10,000, and the Platinum level is $25,000. The top ranking is Titanium PowerSeller, and to qualify you must make at least $150,000 in sales every month!
The fact that these people exist gives you come idea of the income possibilities here. Most of them never set out to even set up a business on eBay - they simply started selling a few things, and then kept going. There are plenty of people whose full-time job is selling things on eBay, and some of them have been doing it for years now. Can you imagine that? Once they\’ve bought the stock, everything else is pretty much pure profit for these people - they don\’t need to pay for any business premises, staff, or anything else. There are multi-million pound businesses making less in actual profit than eBay PowerSellers do.
Even if you don\’t want to quit your job and really go for it, you can still use eBay to make a significant second income. You can pack up orders during the week and take them down to the post office for delivery each Saturday. There are few other things you could be doing with your spare time that have anywhere near that kind of earning potential.
What\’s more, eBay doesn\’t care who you are, where you live, or what you look like: some PowerSellers are very old, or very young. Some live out in the middle of nowhere where selling on eBay is one of the few alternatives to farming or being very poor. eBay tears down the barriers to earning that the real world constantly puts up. There\’s no job interview and no commuting involved - if you can post things, you can do it.
Put it this way: if you know where to get something reasonably cheaply that you could sell, then you can sell it on eBay - and since you can always get discounts for bulk at wholesale, that\’s not exactly difficult. Buy a job lot of something in-demand cheaply, sell it on eBay, and you\’re making money already, with no set-up costs.
If you want to dip your toe in the water before you commit to actually buying anything, then you can just sell things that you\’ve got lying around in the house. Search through that cupboard of stuff you never use, and you\’ll probably find you\’ve got a few hundred dollars\’ worth of stuff lying around in there! This is the power of eBay: there is always someone who wants what you\’re selling, whatever it might be, and since they\’ve come looking for you, you don\’t even need to do anything to get them to buy it.
So you want to get started on eBay? Well, that\’s great! There are only a few little things you need to learn to get started. Our next email will give you the lowdown.
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After his Grande Sonnerie Souveraine tour-de-force, Fran?ois-Paul Journe has followed this staggering achievement with an ultra-slim minute repeater watch. The F.P. Journe Repetition Minutes Souveraine carries on the reputation of the famous watchmaker for crafting Haute Horlogerie distinguished by brilliant technique and a passion for innovation.
This F.P. Journe Minute Repeater watch features a case crafted from stainless steel. Chosen specifically for its superior acoustic properties, which inhabit less space than more complex traditional repeater systems; due to their ingenious simplicity, and minutes with a series of high tones.
Comprised of 301 individual components, this system allows for even greater resonance. Also unique to this movement is the system of racks and striking selectors, including a free-sprung balance with four variable-inertia weights, and showcases a guilloche central pattern Breguet, reliability is also optimized. Two patents have been applied for, and a system of twin mainspring barrels that offer approximately 56 hours of power reserve. The minute repeater mechanism incorporates a number of distinctive elements. By utilizing a flat gong mounted under the dial rather than a system of coiled gong springs around the movement edge, which sounds upon demand—the hours are sounded by a low chime, to protect the development of this innovative repeating mechanism.
Each F.P. Journe Repetition Minutes Souveraine watch is completed by a fine crocodile strap Bedat & Co, the movement plates and bridges are crafted from 18K pink gold. It offers a number of unique technical features Vacheron Ulysse Nardin, and a moire-finished small second subdial and power reserve indicator; the hands are in blued steel, at a mere 4.00 millimeters; not only outstanding for its compactness Blancpain, the mechanism has become extremely flat, its classical form measures 40mm in diameter. The dial is made from silver Oris, and a crocodile leather strap with an F.P. Journe buckle.
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Project Efficiency and Effectiveness The IT Project Management
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By:Bharat Bista
The two primary objectives of project management are that the project should be effective and efficient. Most projects confound effectiveness, efficiency and effort to create a more efficient task, ignoring effectiveness, resulting in project breakdown.
Projects being successful imply projects to produce effective effects, but at other end being efficient implies producing consequences with minimum effort or the caliber to carry out actions promptly.
Efficiency of the Project:
Efficiency of the project is the determinant or a ratio of the out puts from a process activity in relation to the resource inputs, as a measured by the volume of output achieved for the input used. The project can be described as efficient if all stages, maturity, delivery, initiation and implementation are accomplished within the constrains identified at its beginning, in terms of workforce, cost, time and objectives.
Success: If the project is able to exploit the resources of the members of the project group and the user time to the fullest, avoiding unnecessary idle time, delays or wasted time brought about by undertaking tasks or activities.
Furthermore, the project will be effective if integration of activities of the members of the project team, and the interaction with dependences through other parties outside the project team are capable of apt delivery of resources including hardware, software services and training.
Besides, proper time management of resources also signifies efficiency of the project, as resources arrive before they are required, this may lead to problems, deterioration, unexpected fluctuation in planned cash flows and a proportion of the warranty period elapsing before equipment has been used.
Effectiveness of the Project:
Effectiveness of the project is a measure of how well or complete a project task will carry out. A project can be described as effective if it meets with established objectives including the required needs of the user producing quality standards that have been specified to satisfy the needs.
Furthermore, a project can be considered effective if it is able to integrate within the existing organizational system structures and processes with sufficient flexibility; in addition, if it is capable of responding to the changes in the environment in which the system will operate accordingly to the change in the requirement of the user.
Two terms can occur, effectiveness in subjective concept and efficiency in objective impression, in brief; project efficiency is the ratio of the resource inputs and the outputs, while effectiveness can be gauged with objective achievements of the project.
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10 A. Lange amp Sohne Watchmaking To Be Featured At Salzburg World Fine Art Fair0 Comments | Posted by admin in Uncategorized
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9 The Benefits Of Conference Calling for Businesses0 Comments | Posted by admin in Uncategorized By:Richard Cussons Whether your business is large or small, conference calling is a solution that you have likely used at some time or another for its time saving and relationship building advantages. While you may just think of a call with multiple participants when you hear the word conference call, there are actually quite a few different conference calling solutions available to you. It\’s up to you to select the option that best meets your needs. Among these, the primary types of conference calls are: - Audio conference calling - Video conference calling - Web conference calling From these primary types of conference call, there is also the possibility to mix and match among them to customize your solution. Audio conferencing solutions are the oldest among the main three. These can include three phone lines bridged together to create complex outsourced services. It can also mean the lower cost solution of a two-party call, where a speaker phone is utilized in order to let everyone around a table participate in the call with the party on the other end. This is the type of conference call in which the most people have participated. They can be very effective despite their limitations. This limitation is the same as with any other telephone. For one thing, it means that you can only hear what the person is trying to say, but not actually see it. Also, if anyone is too far from the microphone, or the phone isn\’t of very good quality, or even if a person doesn\’t speak up enough, then it makes communication difficult. Furthermore, if the phone call is long distance, then at least one of the parties will need to pay the long distance bill - unless an 800, 877, 888, or other toll free number is available. With video conferencing, you can use a hosted solution to give that added level of professionalism and convenience. Though phone lines, multiple parties are bridged, providing both image and audio. It is the next best thing to actually having the other party in the room. Video conferencing does, however, require you and the other party to have specialized systems and support. These can be very challenging to set up and to use. However, when you compare the costs and lost productivity of video conferencing with that of actual travel, you will find that this is a very cost effective solution. Web conferencing work their very best when using computer desktop applications that are the same on both ends. They are fantastic options for showing products such as software to customers, or to share spreadsheets and other applications among the different parties involved in the conference call. Selecting from among these many conference call solutions will hopefully help you to provide the best communication solution with the party with whom you are communicating. In many situations, an audio conference call will do just fine, but when added demonstrations or a visual element is needed, then you can upgrade to video or web conferencing. It is important to remember that no matter which conference call solution you select, you are choosing it in order to meet your business objectives and those of your company. It\’s best to choose the option that meets your needs instead of going with the solution that provides you with more than what you need. It will only be wasteful in the long run if you do otherwise. About the author:
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8 Managing Your Time How To Prioritize Your Tasks0 Comments | Posted by admin in Uncategorized By:Sean McPheat Prioritizing Tasks: The ability to choose and complete tasks in the order of importance highly desirable and more challenging for some business types than others. In order to choose tasks you must be aware of as many chores and projects as possible. In order to do this, every planning session must have a list. You Must Have a List! List all your tasks, then rate them, and list them again in order. Then you can schedule them. When all tasks and projects are rated, use these additional filters to prioritize: 鈥?Imagine the consequences of eliminating the task. - This exercise will often remove some unneeded tasks altogether. 鈥?Decide if each task should be performed in prime time or secondary time. 鈥?Determine who will be affected by the task. Now Reduce Your List Until we can effectively clone ourselves to be in more than one place at a time, most of us need to reduce our workload. Before you start prioritizing, consider these task elimination criteria: Does This Task or Project Make Sense? Every task you do should first have to pass this benchmark. You have goals, priorities, and objectives. Does every task contribute to your big picture? Estimate how much time each task will take, and then imagine what you would do with the time if the task were cancelled. While not always possible, everything you do should contribute to your objectives. Why is the Task Urgent? While urgency should be a mindset of business, urgency should also be questioned - ruthlessly. Is the urgency only appeasing someone else? What has caused the urgency? Many urgent situations have been caused by mistakes. Determining the cause of urgency can eliminate or postpone a task and lead to prevention measures of interruptions and mistakes. Some seemingly imperative tasks are not urgent at all. Customers might be making demands that are unnecessary. Check with all parties involved. The Delegation Qualifier Are you the only person that can handle the task? Sometimes you might be, but many times someone else can perform for you. Delegate everything possible to free up your schedule. How Else Could the Task Be Done? Are You Utilizing Technology Could an in person appointment be a phone call? Conference calling can rule out travel and save an enormous amount of time. Could you email instead of calling? Email can be done on your terms when you want. You will have time to articulate better compared to the live telephone conversation. Time can be wasted and sales lost by leaving phone messages for people. Email eliminates phone tag. Can the Task Be Dissected? Are there portions of the work that can be delegated, eliminated, or postponed? What is the Cost of Excluding a Task? There are many jobs throughout the day that are actually not worth the time to do. Applying the dollar figure when considering cancelling a task is another measure of the task value. The Measures of Task Value Money - How much is the task worth? Time - How much time will it take? Effect - Completed versus Cancelled Effectiveness - What is the most effective way to perform the task? Contribution to Your Objectives Replacement - (What could be done with the time instead?) Division- Dividing the Task into Parts When - Can the task be performed just as well in secondary time? One great trick for prioritizing is to give every task a deadline. Give tasks a deadline. While many SME owners define a start time for projects and tasks when planning, they do not establish a deadline. Having a clear deadline makes tasks easier to prioritize. Prioritizing while planning is easy. You have time to think. Prioritizing while working is a bit more challenging. Prioritizing Interruptions While most people are familiar with prioritizing tasks, few people prioritize their interruptions. Hence, few people have defined the types of events that interrupt them. Define Interruption Types In order to take control of your time, you must minimize interruptions. Many SME owners describe their positions as managers, and define management as 鈥榩utting out fires,\’ or solving problems. While having a job definition for yourself is a great start, most owners have not defined or classified these problems. They just catch every ball tossed at them. The tail is often wagging the dog. Think about how you are interrupted from your OUT or productive work. Make a list of every kind of interruption you have experienced in the last three months. About the author:
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8 Jaquet Droz 270th Anniversary Commemorated With Design Prize0 Comments | Posted by admin in Uncategorized
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3 James Bond Villains Get Their Own Swatch Watch Collection0 Comments | Posted by admin in Uncategorized
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