by RHiNO NEAL
Mississippi’s unemployment rate dropped slightly last month – from 11.4 percent to 11 percent – but it still remains among the highest in the nation. Mississippi ranks sixth.
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A House vote Thursday is expected to send President Barack Obama a long-sought measure to resume unemployment payments to millions of people whose benefits have lapsed.
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The he-said-she-said-I-heard-don’t-tell-anybody rumor mill thrives in any workplace. You can be a registered nurse, an attorney, a foreman or a teacher, and you come across information that no one else knows. Is it news? Is it gossip? The textbook correct way to handle this information is to keep it to yourself. If what you found out about is that a partner at the firm is pregnant or that Greg… Read the rest

by drp
Unemployment insurance has been a hot topic in Washington recently, and today in our nation’s capitol, progress was made. Yahoo News tells us that “Legislation to restore unemployment benefits to millions who have been out of work for more than six months broke free of Senate Republican delaying tactics on Tuesday.
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Today, the nation will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Americans With Disabilities Act, but will you care? Most of us don’t, including many of those with disabilities. According to a survey by the Kessler Foundation and the National Organization on Disability : A majority (61%) of people with disabilities say that the ADA of 1990 has made no difference in their life, while just about… Read the rest

Dance the MOJO 2-Step! Are you taking the right steps to finding your Mojo at work? Marshall Goldsmith defined Mojo as “that positive spirit toward what we are doing now that starts from the inside and radiates to the outside.” I just finished rereading Marshall Goldsmith’s book Mojo . Click here to read my previous review. Dance a Daily MOJO 2-Step Assessment: Step 1: Track Your Tasks . Record your activities for a… Read the rest

Employee Morale: Driving Performance in Challenging Times by David Bowles and Cary Cooper. David and Cary created a well-written and well thought out book on employee morale and the links between morale and performance. The biggest benefit of morale is individual and organizational performance and the authors present the evidence for “morale correlating highly with, and driving , performance is strong and growing” (p.59). Morale can empower of disable… Read the rest

by jvoves
Locally elected and appointed officials voted on the following matters in the past week: Federal The Senate voted 60-40 to overcome a Republican filibuster to take a vote on extending unemployment compensation to jobless workers. U.S. Sens.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Legislation to restore unemployment benefits to millions who have been out of work for more than six months broke free of… Read the rest

Hi there. You are probably here because you read the article about me having Asperger's syndrome. I have never seen the Mail on Sunday, but it must be a big publication because thousands of readers are coming to the blog from London today. (For readers who did not see the article, I like it. Here's a link . And, sidenote, the author, Louette Harding , was so good at… Read the rest

Employee Engagement Extra Here is David Clarke’s well-designed short slide share presentation on motivation and engagement using Dan Pink’s drive perspective. Motivating And Engaging Your Employees: The Comprehensive Approach For Success View more presentations from clarkee1974 . Enjoy and engage. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ David Zinger, M.Ed., works with global organizations and individuals to foster engagement. David is a writer, educator, speaker, and consultant. He founded the 2751 member Employee Engagement… Read the rest

by QUALITTEE
Although unemployment in the Sioux Falls area is dropping slowly, the economic downturn continues to present the city and state with job-related challenges. Mark McKillip is an example. He is among almost 6,000 people in the four-county metro area who are looking for work. For McKillip, signs of a slowly unfolding recovery remain mostly talk.
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