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Staff Performance
Orlando, FL – The assisted living industry honored outstanding senior living professionals as “Champions” for providing extraordinary care and service...
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Staffing & Performance
Summer is coming to a close, and the fall hiring season is about to start. The ALFA Career Center is a tool designed to connect managers seeking talen...
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Staff Performance
Senior living companies whose staff earned 2010 ALFA Champion Awards are showcasing those awards on their Web sites and in the local press – a great w...
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Executive Talent Management, Executive Team Development
Learning to be an effective leader in a sink-or-swim situation can be a lonely experience – but it’s part of an important learning curve, says Andrew ...
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Labor Relations
Revisions to the Americans with Disabilities Act substantially broaden the scope of covered disabilities – and, therefore, what employers need to acco...
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Executive Talent Management, Organization Development
The business model of the future must be more fluid with fewer layers of managers and employees, says Fred Hassan, former CEO of Schering-Plough. This...
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Executive Team Development
Avoid the term “failure” if you want to encourage your employees’ creativity, says Richard Sandor, CEO of the Chicago Climate Exchange. Of course ther...
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Staffing
With much attention focused on boomers’ care needs and preferences in the next 20 years, less has been said about how many of them are retiring physic...
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Organizational Culture
Learning to be an effective leader in a sink-or-swim situation can be a lonely experience – but it’s part of an important learning curve, says Andrew ...
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Executive Talent Management, Executive Team Development, Organization Development
“The fish stinks from the head,” says Hewitt Associates CEO Russell Fradin, who in saying that drives home his point that company leaders must be full...
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Employee Compensation, Labor Relations, Organization Development, Organizational Culture, Staff Development, Staffing & Performance
In some ways, the sorry state of the economy has had a positive impact on employee recruitment and retention. Employers report record numbers of respo...
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Organization Development
The Assisted Living Federation of America has announced the recipients of its Hero Awards and Best of the Best Awards for 2010. Six extraordinary prof...
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Labor Relations
More than three in four working Americans age 60 and over say they will put off retirement for financial reasons …
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Executive Team Development, Organizational Culture
There are two strategies senior leaders must incorporate if they want to create a culture of innovation in their companies, says Vijay Govindarajan, p...
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Executive Talent Management, Executive Team Development, Organizational Culture
Giving good advice isn’t what makes leaders effective in a mentoring relationship, says Kathy Kram, professor of organizational behavior at the Boston...
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Organizational Culture, Staffing
Especially when c-level executives are looking to hire management staff, there are a bevy of factors that go into the hiring process. But above all el...
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Executive Talent Management, Organizational Culture
Daniel Vasella, CEO of Novartis, says he remembers being a “very demanding and sometimes very harsh” company leader—but that’s all changed now. CEOs m...
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Executive Talent Management
A leader is merely someone who needs a team to accomplish goals, and to be an effective leader you really only need three goals, says Carlos Brito, CE...
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Executive Team Development
Alan Fairbanks got the bug for working with seniors while studying for his master’s degree in health administration. Interning in a senior residence, ...
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Competitive Positioning, Staff Performance, Staffing
Hiring creative employees is critical to innovation and developing products and services that will keep your company ahead of the competition, says Ke...
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Organizational Culture, Staff Development, Staff Performance
It's 2 p.m. on a Thursday and the vice president of marketing for a senior living company is talking with the COO and the vice president of quality ab...
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Labor Relations
Leading senior living companies opened the c-suite door to women long ago. Now, those with the most skill and savvy hold some powerful reins – despite...
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Labor Relations
National Nurses United is now the nation’s largest union of RNs, with 150,000 members who come mainly from three merging organizations. NNU representa...
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Executive Team Development, Organization Development, Staff Development
It may come as a big surprise to your senior vice presidents and managers when you ask them to take charge of something outside of their comfort zone,...
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Organizational Culture, Staff Development, Staffing & Performance
A business leader’s concern should be how to motivate employees – rather, they should concentrate on how to find self-motivated people, says business ...
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Organization Development, Organizational Culture
The best strategy executives can adopt when seeking to accomplish companywide change is to share insightful stories with employees that will help them...
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Staffing & Performance
Two senior living executives weigh in on this scenario: Having instituted a management-level hiring freeze last fall, an assisted living company CEO i...
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Executive Team Development
Women’s success at all levels of business and government is fueled by the networks women form to support their goals, says former U.S. Secretary of St...
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Executive Team Development, Staff Development
When Rhonda was hired as an administrative assistant at a senior living community in Macon, Georgia, moving into the corner office was the last thing ...
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Growth Strategies, HR Systems & Processes, Organizational Culture, Staff Development, Staffing & Performance
Handle your company’s talent as you would your portfolio, says Dick Beatty, author and professor of human resources management at Rutgers University. ...
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