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The objective of the following role-playing exercise is to review strategies for managing challenging employees effectively. Instruct trainees to choose a partner and role-play each of the following situations. For the first role-playing exercise, one person takes the role of the supervisor and the other, the role of the employee. Then, for the second, switch […]
Yesterday’s Advisor began attorney Whitney Warner’s list of 14 things managers do that make a plaintiffs’ attorney’s day. Today, the rest of her list.
Yesterday’s Advisor presented basics of expense reimbursement (courtesy of Compensation.BLR.com); today, details of processing and taxation.
“Because I am a plaintiffs’ attorney, people want me to fail and die,” says attorney Whitney Warner. At SHRM’s Annual Conference and Exposition in Orlando, Warner turned the other cheek and told HR managers what they can do to avoid lawsuits.
Supervising employees is never easy, but some workers make the task particularly difficult. These challenging employees can try your supervisors’ patience and drain a lot of their time and energy. They can also be a disruptive influence, damaging morale and making it difficult for their coworkers to function productively. That’s why your supervisors need to […]
John A. Rubino, who is the founder and president of Rubino Consulting Services in Pound Ridge, NY, offered his tips at a recent BLR®-sponsored webinar.
Achieving workplace diversity isn’t easy—even for global powerhouses like Google. “We’re not where we want to be when it comes to diversity,” Google observes in a January 2014 demographic report, which reveals that 70% of Google’s employees are male and 61% are white.
Job skills training was the number one training need identified by participants in a recent survey, and leadership/supervisory skills training is a close second. Also, 22% chose job skills as their top training need, while more than 20% pointed to leadership/supervisory skills. Other training needs include compliance training (12%), safety training (6.5%), better training materials […]
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In fact, he says, it is his goal to eliminate such programs. Why?