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Recent Building a Team Business White Papers, Webcasts and Case Studies | BNET
Recent Building a Team Business White Papers, Webcasts and Case Studies | BNET

Moving Beyond the Employee Lifecycle: Talent Solutions for a New Workplace
Thanks to globalization and technology, employees are able to move in many directions — laterally as well as vertically — and select from among a variety of work options. And with employees increasingly able to work from anywhere in the world, the traditional idea of the workplace is becoming obsolete. Going forward in these challenging economic times, companies will need to create a difficult balance — retaining their best performers and attracting new people to replace their retiring baby boomers while keeping costs down. This isn't something that can just be handed off to human resources (HR); effective talent strategy is also good business strategy.
Resource Guide: 11 Qualities of Successful IT Managers
To succeed as an IT manager, and to advance your career into the executive sphere, you need some very specific traits--11 to be exact. From needs assessment to team building, read this TechRepublic guide for a description of the skills you need to be at the top of your game. Note: This premium editorial content is underwritten by SkillSoft. The registration information you provide will be shared with the sponsor.
MindTree: What Makes It Different As A Place Of Work?
MindTree has a very simple concept of what kind of a person it helps develop. It wants to build a company of nerds, who dress well and speak the language of business. The idea may sound very strange at first glance but it is about building a very unique person who grows in a holistic manner, appreciates life in its fullest colors and adds unusual value.
Keys To Teamwork / Teambuilding Success
How to create effective teams, team work, and team building is a challenge in every organization. Work environments tend to foster rugged individuals working on personal goals for personal gain. Typically, reward, recognition, and pay systems single out the achievements of individual employees. Appraisal, performance management, and goal setting systems most frequently focus on individual goals and progress, not on team building. Promotions and additional authority are also bestowed on individuals. Given these factors, is it any wonder that teams and team work are an uphill battle in most organizations? This paper provides you information needed to develop team work and effective work teams in your organization.
Improving Office Productivity: Shared Workspace, Meeting Rooms, Conference Ro...
Desk sharing among mobile workers is known by several names: hoteling, hot-desking, virtual office, etc. It's simple and powerful. Mobile workers, like sales representatives, consultants, auditors, and even telecommuters, are often out of the office more than they are in. Hoteling maximizes utilization of space by sharing fewer office resources among more people. In all phases of the business cycle companies need to focus attention on better use of resources. With greater and greater computerization of office functions, more and more people have an "office on the go". They move from one customer site to the next without lengthy desk time in the office. Meanwhile, the office is filled with empty desks and offices. Whether your objective is reducing your real estate footprint, improving accessibility to conference room reservations, allowing more people to comfortably occupy the existing office space, or making work life easier for mobile employees, Desk Flex helps your operation hum. Download this paper to learn more!
Leadership - Ten Ways To Be Better At Leading Teams
Leadership is a fascinating art, a balance between getting things done and having enough about you to maximize both the motivation and engagement of all of your people for now and the future. In any business there is a need to lead teams, unless there is just the one of you. So, being savvy about the clear points that you need to have in your own skillset are vital. This paper explains ten of the best ways to be better at leading teams.
Nailing Jelly To A Tree: Approaches To Self-Directed Work Teams
There is much talk these days about implementing self-managed or self-directed teams. As a process, self-directed work teams become increasingly able to perform functions that in the past were done by others outside the group. As an outcome, it is a team that without a management-appointed supervisor that substantially controls the creation (manufacturing or service), scheduling, design, quality control, procurement, and employee hiring/firing/performance feedback of a process that has a specific product or service. The company supports the team by its organizational structure, information system, compensation policy, and management. There are three approaches: the opportunistic approach, the partial implementation approach, and the structural (re-engineering) approach.
How To Deal Effectively With Poor Performance
Poor performance is an issue that faces any manager from time to time. You can deal with it in several ways: put up with it (not to be recommended); re-brief or train to allow performance to improve; re-assign the person to another task that they can do; terminate employment. These options are linked.
Time Management In Need Of Team Management
Teamwork is necessary when working out a time management plan. The key to success is taking essential precautions to avert communication leakages within a business. Teamwork that instills motivation and confidence is the focus of getting the plans in action. When you have confidence, and motivation, you have the primary keys to getting on the road to managing your time. Communication is a valuable ingredient that makes time management fall into place.
Creating Successful Teams With Emotional Intelligence
The bottom-line impact of team skills such as communication, conflict resolution, and sharing are only now getting acknowledged in professional organizations. Yet the idea that athletes require superior teamwork has long been recognized as critical to a sports team's success. Emotional intelligence is the ability to recognize and manage one's emotions, as well as the ability to recognize and respond effectively to the emotions of others. It not only includes being able to engage with others in your group, but also understanding your group and extended social community from the "Big picture" point of view.
The Future of Work: How to Prepare Your Business for the New Frontier
According to a recent study by IDC, nearly 75 percent of the U.S. workforce will be mobile by the end of 2011 - but research shows that businesses are not aligned with this trend due to a slow adoption rate of technologies that can make this transition simple for both employee and employer. Check out this BNET Webcast, sponsored by Citrix Online and now available on demand, to hear from Gretchen Nemechek, Product Marketing Manager, Citrix Online, and James Ware and Charles Grantham, co-founders of The Future of Work Program. Their presentation highlights research on key industry trends, including data from Citrix Online's recent survey on Web commuting. Learn about: Trends and shifts in the workplace The business case for implementing a flexible work plan Factors that contribute to organizational resistance Tips for getting your business up to speed
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Talent Supply Chain Management: An Alarming Look at the Mismatch Between Tale...
A recent independent survey of over 250 professional services firms has uncovered the impact of these realities on the service-oriented firm. These findings highlight significant disconnects between the ultimate desired operational state of the services firm and their current ability to execute to achieve that state. These findings clearly illustrate a trend in the services industry that includes: The achievement of acceptable processes and automation of tactical resource planning/management has resulted in a shift towards considering the strategic impact of the manner in which the talent inventory is managed. Aggressive prioritization of service line profitability in order to ensure the acquisition, development, retention, and integration of talent pools drives firm success. Active search for areas of possible improvement over the management of the talent inventory that will positively impact the firm's ability to improve service-line profitability while decrease operational inefficiencies. The nature of these trends seems to suggest that service firms are beginning to identify a need to treat the talent inventory with supply chain-like discipline, but are poorly prepared to optimize day-to-day operations of the talent inventory that would permit a true talent supply chain.

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