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April 2010

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July 2010 | Stepstone Solutions successfully retain UK and Singapore ISO/IEC 27001; expands its certification on information security standard to Frankfurt

June 2010 | JobsDB.com launches revamped website with innovative new features
“Dynamic Job Search on Map” and “Dashboard” design

June 2010 | Sick leave expected to increase during World Cup
Managing productivity levels will be a challenge

June 2010 | Portugal would win the World Cup of 'employee team management'
Country employee opinion benchmarks against the latest FIFA rankings

May 2010 | Hostage author joins ICLIF
The ICLIF Leadership Centre announced today the appointment of George Kohlrieser as its Head of Research and Dean of Faculty.

Mar 2010 | Promoting the Entrepreneurial Spirit

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Training Calendar
Find out what events or programmes of interest are on right now.

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The Featured Blog -- our take on blogs we've scoured with relevance to the HR community.

Jan 2010 | In January, we did a feature on Networking Groups online with a spotlight on Compensation and Benefits groups.

Oct 2009 | The Talent Insight Blog

	How do you deal with hell in the hallway?

Employers > Post a HR vacancy at no cost

Employees > Check out the latest HR positions posted

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The Editor's blog -- the HR Matters Magazine Editor shares her views on various topics.

Is it effective?
Post on 6 July 2010 | A committee of 28 people to decide on whether to run an event. Does that make sense?

Apparently it does, to some people.

	What you need to know about personal branding and Gen Y
	Put me in, Coach, and I'll make a difference in how the game is played!

	Be Redundant!
	Do Amazing Things
	The Facilitative Leader through Time
	Have you factored in the impact of social media in your recruitment strategy?
	Metrics for HR Measurement
	Marshall Goldsmith on ... Succession Planning
	...and after the Recession?


Talent Management South-East Asia Summit Malaysia \| 28 Sep - 1 Oct 2010	Global Learning & Leadership Development 2010 Malaysia \| 21 - 22 Sept 2010

Malaysian Labour Law & Compliance Malaysia \| 24 - 25 Aug 2010	The Entrepreneur. The Ultimate Entrepreneur Search

The Top Ten Strategies For Managers Of Mobile Workers - Surviving and Thriving in the Emerging Mobile Workforce
Focus on building relationships. You are now in the business of managing relationships. Once a quarter audit your time. How much time are you spending engaged in activities meant to foster stronger relationships with your mobile employees? Rate each relationship on a scale of 1 to 10 where 1 is weak and 10 is very strong. Craft a strategy for continuing to develop your strong ones and triage the weak ones. Ask yourself why they are weak and what you can learn from them.

conversations

candid conversations with local HR professionals about current opportunities, communication woes, challenges faced and strengthening positions....

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	37th ARTDO International Leaderhip & HRD Conference Malaysia \| 27 - 29 July 2010

	Seven tips towards managing HR change in difficult times
	Is outplacement the right choice for you?

Your Biggest Challenge
Decide. Then act.
If there’s anything I can say with certainty, it’s this. You need firstly, to decide what it is that you want. That is the hardest part because it means taking a stand and in effect, committing to something.

Stuart Ferguson , PhD has dedicated his career to improving the results of people and their organizations. Dr. Ferguson is expert in assessing and changing organization cultures using his proprietary QUOCA process.

Earning our Way into the Boardroom

Earning our way into the Boardroom
It’s been well-established in numerous studies and reports that high-performing organisations, those outfits that are really on the cutting edge of their own markets, those who have the highest return on investment, are the very organisations that have HR on the ball. HR is in the game; they are part of all that planning. They provide the people and training required, anticipating the demand for knowledge and skills and prioritising it accordingly.

Targeting the Elusive Candidate
Do your homework, understand what the role involves and you are well on track to recruiting that elusive candidate. In our continuing HR survey with local HR practitioners, a constant complaint we hear is that it’s so hard to find the right talent. The question we need to ask ourselves is whether we are really looking hard enough for the talent, whether we ....

As others cut back, outsourcing firms pick up the slack

HR's Big Test
If we don't give out, how can we expect to get any? I've been confronted enough times and in a number of circles to see that for many of us, information hoarding is about two things : power and fear. I have the information and you don't. Does this translate to "I have the means or the solution"? Holding information is only part of the solution, if any. It's what you do with it. And insight, connection and value from the information is more powerful than information per se. Then there's the belief that if one were to share all one's information, what value is left to the individual? A tricky one, but operating from a place of fear is never a good thing. The trick lies in viewing it with different lenses, exploring new avenues and testing your theory out....

Sulynn Choong is a Positive Change Consultant and the Founder/Chief Engagement Officer at the Asian Center for Applied Positive Psychology (ACAPP)

More or Less

Sulynn blogs

Roshan Thiran is currently the CEO of Leaderonomics

It Pays to Have Fun at Work

TOGAF Certification Course KL and Singapore

This May, we are proud to bring you the Leadership Forum. This exciting two day event will address key HR concerns in driving capability development and what it takes to build our leaders in a post-crisis era of rebirth and regrowth.

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Managing employee health, and not just managing benefit costs, is becoming a serious business issue
Around the world, employer healthcare costs continue to rise, and Malaysia is certainly no exception, with medical inflation ranging from 12% to 15% whilst other Asian countries are also facing double-digit inflation rates. While traditional forms of managing costs, such as insurance premium sharing, premium shopping or the use of managed care networks, have served employers well, new approaches are also gaining strong interest—including reducing the cost of illness in the near future by investing in employee preventive care in the present. This offers a win-win situation: better employee health and employer savings.

Sandra Ford Walston is the Courage Expert and innovator of STUCKThinking™

The Power of Language

Thank You So Much
It’s a well know fact that employees that feel appreciated have a more positive outlook at work and contribute significantly more than those that do not. But not so well known is the fact that recognition doesn’t have to be expensive or complex to implement…and can sometimes be as simple as just saying ‘Thank You So Much’...

Social Forces Driving a Simpler Way of Working

Large, complex organisations have reached a critical size in the modern world. This is probably most apparent in highly developed industrial capitalist economies. As far back as 1977 the U.S. National Science Foundation commissioned a study that examined "The Limits to the Management of Large, Complex Systems." An accessible
version was reprinted in The Futurist magazine that year (Duane Elgin and Robert Bushnell, "Limits to the Management of Large, Complex Systems," The Futurist, December, 1977). We take that study as our foundation for this article. Simply put, as organisations reach an unmanageable size they will disaggregate themselves into smaller, more manageable units in order to survive.

10 Crucial Consumer Trends for 2010
Business as unusual...
Forget the recession: the societal changes that will dominate 2010 were set in motion way before we temporarily stared into the abyss.
This year, prepare for ‘business as unusual’. For the first time, there’s a global understanding, if not a feeling of urgency that sustainability, in every possible meaning of the word, is the only way forward. How that should or shouldn’t impact consumer societies is of course still part of a raging debate, but at least there is a debate.

What do You Believe Engagement is All About?
Engagement in the workplace is something business owners and managers strive for. Engaged employees are more likely to feel motivated and be bound by close friendships at the workplace and exhibit a higher level of passion for what they do. Employers the world over embrace the virtues of a fully engaged workforce and employ various techniques to put this into action. But really, what is engagement all about?

We speak to two personalities on this topic. Doug Shaw runs What Goes Around Limited, and advises organisations on how to combine employee, customer and social engagement in order to co-create and deliver great service. He also writes the Stop Doing Dumb Things to Customer blog, runs a business behaviour group on LinkedIn and writes articles for a number of magazines and websites. David Zinger M.Ed. is a global expert on employee engagement.

	The Psychology of Human Resources Common sense usually works, but the science of psychology is better. We are all amateur psychologists making efforts to understand the motivations and behaviours of the people around us, and most of the time, we are quite successful at this. ...
	A Coaching Exercise Gina, 38, is a Senior Human Resource Manager at a large medical device manufacturing firm. In the last year, Gina has had to deal with employee issues on many fronts. Revenue has dropped, morale has suffered, management has remained relatively quiet on a number of management and outlook issues and people have left the organisation.

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INSIGHT Metrics for HR Measurement		OPINION Be Redundant!		HR PRACTITIONER A Conversation with ... Amparo Diaz Llairo		LEADERSHIP Tracking the Facilitative Leader through Time		Q&A The Psychology of Human Resources		FOCUS Thank You So Much

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The Three Laws of Performance The Organisation of the Future 2 JAN 2010 The Ten Commandments for Business Failure		Interesting stories of memorable days.... JAN 2010 A Battle I Can't Win		topical interviews with :- Dr David Cohen Alison Lester Rebekah Fensome Raymonde Das Lou Tice and more... APR 2010 The Psychology of Human Resources		recent appointments and promotions in HR...... Vijayabalan a/l Velu Lim Li-Anne Karunagaran Suppiah Azham Zainal Abidin Rozita Awang		interviews with high calibre HR managers and directors including ...... Jadwiga Zareba, Nokia Poland Matt Carter, Otago Polytechnic New Zealand Serene Tan, Otis Malaysia Bernard Cruz, Prosafe Singapore John Taya, Main Roads Western Australia Melissa Fitzpatrick, Melbourne IT Australia

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