Are They Being Served?

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Vana Prewitt

For more than 20 years, I have created workforce development programs for a wide range of clients, on three continents. Topics have ranged from the simple to the complex across industries, but I can always count on one request from every client: Improve customer service... More »

Innovation Drives Managing the Misunderstood Generation

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Jane Loda

Generation Y, some 70 million strong, have already begun to assert their influence on America's workforce, yet they remain the least understood by their managers. Bruce Tulgan's Not Everyone Gets a Trophy offers valuable insights for understanding what motivates and def... More »

Image of Public Service: Working Together for America

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Craig Pettibone

The Coalition for Effective Change (CEC), which is made up of 34 organizations with a combined membership of more than 600,000, celebrated its 15th anniversary on June 22, 2009. The CEC came together in 1993 to provide a voice f... More »

Entrepreneurial Learning: Secret Ingredients for Business Success

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Mike MacPherson

In 1954, a milkshake machine salesman named Ray Kroc negotiated a deal with the McDonald brothers to take their restaurant concept national. In the first franchise, opened near Kroc's home in Chicago, he and partner Art Jacobs attempted to perfect important aspects of t... More »

Making New Employees Successful in Any Economy

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Katharine Giacalone

To open a vacancy or not to open a vacancy - that is the question. While fiscal responsibility is in the hearts and minds of most organizations these days, they still have to run their businesses. So if there is a vacancy the organization can't live without, employers n... More »