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Human Resources and Organizational Development


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6/11/2088
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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8/31/2010
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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8/18/2010
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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8/10/2010
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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7/27/2010
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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7/27/2010
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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6/29/2010
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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6/22/2010
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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5/25/2010
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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5/3/2010
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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4/12/2010
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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3/22/2010
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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3/15/2010
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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3/15/2010
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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3/8/2010
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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3/1/2010
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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2/7/2010
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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2/1/2010
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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2/1/2010
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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1/25/2010
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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1/11/2010
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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1/5/2010
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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12/21/2009
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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12/21/2009
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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12/1/2009
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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11/23/2009
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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11/16/2009
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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11/9/2009
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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10/26/2009
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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10/19/2009
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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SENIOR Living University

Senior Living University

Senior Living University training materials are available in several formats so you can customize training to meet your unique needs.

Senior Living University award-winning training and certification programs have been recognized by the assisted living community for setting the standard for assisted living training. Their curriculum is accepted as the standard for training in over 15 states.

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EXECUTIVE Magazine

Assisted Living Executive Magazine

The Assisted Living Executive is ALFA’s monthly magazine covering the latest news, trends, solutions and operational techniques used at the most innovative companies in the business. The ALE magazine is aimed at improving operational excellence and is a flagship publication for senior living executives.

Past editions of the Assisted Living Executive are archived online for both ALFA members and non-members. If you are employed by a senior living provider, you may qualify for a FREE 12 month subscription of the ALE magazine, delivered to your door!

ALFA Store

Assisted Living Store

Take advantage of the ALFA Store, your source for quality assisted living publications. The ALFA store offers a collection of resources including tool kits, housing reports, guides, overviews and subscriptions, addressing the most challenging issues facing senior living providers and operators.

The majority of the products in the ALFA Store are free to ALFA members and are available to non-members for a one time fee. Products are downloadable and printed copies are available for a small fee.

Visit the online ALFA Store.

CAREER Center

Assisted Living Jobs

ALFA’s Career Center is the premier career resource serving job seekers and employers in the assisted living industry. Use the links below to guide you as you begin your search for senior living jobs or to post your employment opportunities.