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2012 Trends for Reputation Management
By: Patrick Lunsford
01/11/2012 - It's early in the New Year, which means many of us are writing the wrong date, making small talk about how "2011 just flew by," going to movies that want Oscar nominations, and reading plenty of articles/posts on what to expect for the year. In…
What We’re Reading: Employee Communication
By: Maggie Brandt
12/16/2011 - Often when people think of how a business communicates, they think externally: what the company advertises on TV, how they respond to customer complaints or what they say in media interviews. Yet, one of the most important audiences a company communicates with is its employees.…
Gamification for Modification
By: Beth Doriani
10/26/2011 - How Adding Fun Can Drive Behavior Modification and Business Results Gamification is the buzz word floating around offices and business conferences all over the world. Yet many are still asking: what is it? Gamification takes the components of a game - the experience, dynamics and…
Health Care Can't Solve Nursing Shortage with More Nurses
By: Patrick Lunsford
09/28/2011 - "I want to scream at whoever wrote this." That's the reaction I received from my wife when I showed her an old (May 2011) article from NurseWeek magazine. To put this response in perspective, my wife secretly owns the "Little House on the Prairie" DVD…
3 Ways to Make Internal Newsletters More Effective
By: Nick Sargent
08/31/2011 - Not long ago internal newsletters were simply feel-good vehicles to celebrate employee birthdays, announce Christmas parties and give the CEO a forum to thank employees for their contributions. During the last few years, that's changed. As the rapidly evolving information age requires quick, innovative action…
Don't Stress about Employee Engagement
By: Patrick Lunsford
07/28/2011 - Let's start today's conversation about employee engagement where most employee engagement discussions start — with baboons. You know, the primates with the long faces and protruding hairless bottoms (they kind of look like Rafiki in "The Lion King"). Baboons take center stage for their unknowing…
Tools for Employers to Innovate
By: John Guest
01/31/2011 - At the Standing Partnership we work with many clients who understand the value of and need for attracting and retaining talented people. As several of those organizations know, this can often involve working with innovative and hard working professionals from outside the U.S. While the…
A Collision of Internal and Public Relations at Zappos.com
By: Amber Morris
08/27/2010 - I love shoes and I love Zappos.com's incredible customer service so I follow them on Facebook. Yesterday morning, I was surprised to see a post inviting me and their 61,000+ other fans to their "All Hands" employee staff meeting ... Zappos.com Wanna get in one…
Internal Communications: How to Get Human Resources to Collaborate
By: Justin Lopinot
01/28/2010 - I've been helping quite a few clients lately with their internal communications. During a webinar earlier this week, I asked the speakers how to encourage human resources, which in many instances can be reluctant to work with "marketing" people, to collaborate on internal communications. The…
The Employee Survey: What You Don't Know Can Hurt You
By: Marijean Jaggers
12/22/2009 - It's annual review time at Standing Partnership, as I'm sure it is at many of your companies. That means, as managers, we're compiling information, gathering feedback from colleagues, and considering the year's accomplishments and shortcomings to prepare reviews, as well as completing self-evaluations ("my greatest…
