Keeping Employees

Welcome to the March 28, 2007 edition of how to keep employees. Thank you to everybody who sent in ideas and here are a the "chosen ones"

The Positivity Blog presents Why some people almost always are successful posted at Henrik Edberg.

Editor - Dave Prouhet presents Employee Retention posted at Business Advice Daily, saying, "We all know this old piece of wisdom:  “It’s easier and cheaper to keep an existing customer than it is to find a new one.” Substitute the word “employee” for “customer” and it’s just as true.  In this article we discuss employee benefits, compensation, and business."

Arvind Devalia presents Leadership in the current climate of change posted at Arvind Devalia, saying, "Practice leadership based on the courage to live the change you wish to bring about."

MabelandHarry presents Inner Values posted at MabelandHarry

Jack Yoest presents Are Business Elites Capitalists? posted at Reasoned Audacity, saying, "Your Business Blogger once partnered with a former McKinsey Consultant, a brilliant mind with a Ph.D. in Math from Columbia. I once wondered aloud why McKinsey, indeed all big business seemed to be confused conservatives. If you are in business, doing business, creating wealth -- you must be a Calvin Coolidge conservative GOP'er. Right?"

Vahid Chaychi presents The First Step to Start an Online Work at Home Business posted at Internet and Search Engine Marketing, saying, "There are many who love to start an online business that can be done from home. There problem is they don't know "how" and "from where". The most important thing in starting a new business is making a serious decision. Without a serious decision, no business will be started."

Charles H. Green presents Trust Tip 35: Reciprocity, Sales and Suicide Hot Lines posted at Trust Matters, saying, "Suicide hotlines teach something very important about trust and persuasion.  When you pick up a call in a suicide hotline center, the first impulse is to try and start talking; to try and convince the caller not to kill himself. It's the exact wrong thing to do."

Lead Optimize presents Make Your Website a Tool for Everyone posted at Lead Optimize.com.

Sudhanshu presents Entrepreneurship and 300 posted at Gyaan Sutra, saying, "This post is about what I learned about entrepreneurship from the movie '300'"

Alvaro Fernandez presents "Tis better to give than receive": oxytocin and dopamine posted at SharpBrains, saying, "Being generous may help retain good employees...and improve our own mind."

Charles H. Green presents Working and Feeling Good posted at Trust Matters, saying, "Being happy at work turns out to have to do with being engaged, and being engaged with being praised.  It doesn't turn out to have much to do with incentive payments.   Why do we have to keep rediscovering "treat people well"?"

John presents OhCash.com » Building A Learning Organisation posted at OhCash.com, saying, "A learning organization is an organization that learns and encourages learning among its people. It promotes exchange of information between employees, hence creating a more knowledgeable workforce."

David Zinger presents Zinger?s Employee Engagement Rant (Part 1) posted at David Zinger on Employee Engagement

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