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Help Your Physician Group Be Progressive: Discipline That Preserves Your Best Investment

February 25, 2011 by angishields

Burr Forman's Results Matter Radio

Help Your Physician Group Be Progressive: Discipline That Preserves Your Best Investment

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It is often more difficult for an employer to recruit a good employee than to retain one. Lisa Warren and Ashley Hattaway talk about how setting expectations and using progressive discipline can help you retain those employees that your group has invested in. They also discuss how these steps can help you when you need to end the relationship.

Lisa is a healthcare consultant with Warren, Averett, Kimbrough & Marino, LLC in Birmingham, Alabama. She has spent over 15 years working with hospitals and physician practices on improving the operations and financial performance of their organizations. E-Mail Lisa Warren.

Ashley is a Partner in the Labor and Employment practice group at Burr & Forman LLP and represents companies in all types of labor and employment matters including litigation and advice. She has worked closely with many health care providers on their employment issues and represented them in disputes. E-Mail Ashley Hattaway.

Gary Jones, Sees Nothing but Opportunity since Defining Moment

February 24, 2011 by angishields

Inspiration At Work

Gary Jones, Sees Nothing but Opportunity since Defining Moment

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If there was ever a doubt in your mind about how an inspiring culture can drive profit, listen in on this interview with Gary Jones on Inspiration At Work Radio. Gary, the Chief Human Resource Officer at The Grizzard Communications Group, shares a superb balance between guiding principles and practical ideas on how to create an inspiring culture at work.

Gary also speaks about his deep appreciation and affection for the many helpful relationships he has developed through the years through his involvement with SHRM-Atlanta and SHRM national.

As good as the content is on the subject of culture, the payoff of the interview comes towards the end of the show when Gary opens a window into his life and shares how a guitar-playing experience in a recording studio became a defining moment in his life. Listen in and you will be glad you did.

You can improve your employees’ performance at work – you just need to know how. (11/23/10 Show)

November 22, 2010 by admin

Corporate Conversations

You can improve your employees' performance at work - you just need to know how. (11/23/10 Show)

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Many managers think their poor performing employees are simply not capable of doing the job properly. The reality is that it may be the manager. Our experts in this show talk about how you can take failing performers and turn them into top A+ performers with little to no extra dollars.

Sharon Kaivani, Practice Lead Talent Management, Designs on Talent

Sharon Kaivani is a proven organizational effectiveness leader with a breadth of expertise in strategic change and talent management. She has more than 18 years experience crossing retail, financial services, transportation, and manufacturing sectors. Her career includes a blend of consulting and industry service.

Prior to her current consulting work, Sharon served in director roles at The Home Depot, leading talent management and change management teams. Under her leadership, Sharon’s organization produced and championed a range of strategic human resources tools for the enterprise, including a holistic change management methodology and field guide, a new leader assimilation approach, an organization-wide HR talent review process, and 360 assessments. She also penned a comprehensive organization design methodology and toolkit targeting HR generalists and business leaders, helping them to integrate business strategy into their organization structures. She also served as an HR generalist.

Before joining The Home Depot, Sharon had nearly 6 years in consulting with both IBM Business Consulting Services in the Strategy and Change practice, and Pricewaterhouse Coopers in their Organization Change Strategy practice. During her tenure, she led multiple change management teams through large-scale change efforts in a variety of industries. Her extensive change management work included organization design, communications, culture change, and training efforts, among other areas. While at the firm, she also authored an organization design training suite for fellow change management consultants.

Sharon also has a process redesign/reengineering background gained from her employment at First Union National Bank, now Wachovia. Her process-based foundation helps her to be a well-rounded practitioner, always searching for new ways to improve her clients’ effectiveness.

Sharon holds an MA degree in Industrial Organizational Psychology from University of North Carolina at Charlotte and a BA in Psychology from North Carolina State University. Sharon Kaivani Segment

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Amir Ghannad, Atlanta Plant Manager Sunny Delight

Amir Ghannad has 25 years of experience in leadership and organizational development with Procter and Gamble and Sunny Delight Beverages Company. Amir, who holds a Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech and an MBA from Wilmington College, has lived in four countries and has managed operations, designed and conducted training sessions, and facilitated workshops in various locations in the U.S., Far East, and Europe. Amir has hands on experience in Operations Management as well as development and implementation of Organizational Effectiveness strategies in a variety of business situations, including start-ups, JV partnerships, acquisitions, and divestitures. Amir is also a Registered Corporate Coach (RCC) and a highly skilled facilitator. Amir Ghannad Segment

How to Hire the Right Person for the Right Job (11/02/10 Show)

November 5, 2010 by admin

You may think that with the unemployment rate so high, the pool of good candidates is also high and ripe for the picking. This only means it is even easier to hire the wrong person. Hiring the wrong person can cost you upwards of $120,000 or more. You can’t afford that right now. Learn how to hire the right person for the right job the first time.

Tiffany Hoffine, Managing Partner AquantUs, LLC

AquantUs is a results-oriented firm providing executive recruiting and coaching services. We cultivate long-term professional relationships with both employers and employees to assist them with achieving their goals. We work with the highest caliber clients, candidates and networks. We are committed to your success and to providing exceptional service. We use a collaborative process to ensure employers find the right person for the job, the company and the team.

Tiffany graduated with honors from Clemson University with a bachelor’s degree in Accounting. She began her career in public accounting as an audit professional with Deloitte & Touche, progressing to the Senior Manager level. Prior to AquantUs, she was a partner with another executive search firm. She is also on the Board of Ahimsa House and a member of the Board of Directors Network.

Tiffany is also co-owner of The Sundance Co., LLC and co-inventor of the Chill Out and About stay-cool food serving and storage system that can be found in over 120 gift and kitchen stores throughout the United States. Tiffany Hoffine Segment

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Barbara Carkenord, Co-Founder & Chief Curriculum Strategist, B2T Training

Barbara Carkenord, Co-Founder and Chief Curriculum Strategist of B2T Training, has over 20 years experience in business analysis. Barbara possesses an MBA from the University of Michigan and is a Certified Business Analysis Professional Recipient (CBAP®). She began her career in the Information Technology area as a programmer, systems analyst, business analyst, and project manager. Barbara is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, has authored many articles on business analysis and published her first book, Seven Steps to Mastering Business Analysis in 2008. She is a contributing author to the IIBA book Managing Business Analysts which will be published at the end of 2010. Actively involved in the IIBA, she was a core team member of the IIBA BABOK® creation committee.

Barbara possesses detailed knowledge and experience in many structured approaches and methodologies. Her experience covers many industries including insurance, banking, and manufacturing. Barbara designed the business analysis curriculum of B2T Training bringing together proven techniques with real-world experience. She conducts formal and informal training sessions, consistently receiving excellent feedback. Barbara Carkenord Segment

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Jane Weathersby, Strategic HR Consultant, Argus Benefits

Jane Weathersby combines deep experience in total HR build-out. Her experience includes companies such as CNN, TBS and Caribiner, where she served in executive leadership roles. Throughout her career, which begain at Deloitte & Touche, she has obtained and utilized broad strategic HR consulting experiences. Her HR experience crosses multiple disciplines, including mergers and acquisitions, shared service implementations, international assignments and employee relations. Additionally, Jane is an expert in developming and delivering corporate and employee communication strategies and content. She has hired hundreds of talented people in her career, and has built and managed programs and processes to harness the power those people bring to organizations.

Jane’s focus is working with mid-sized companies to help them move the HR function from tactical to strategic. She specializes in companies going through transition, and always enjoys working with start-up organizations and people. Jane is an Atlanta native and gradutated from the University of Georgia with a degree in journalism. Jane Weathersby Segment

Non-Compete Clauses in Georgia Are Enforceable – How Do You Make Them Work For You & When You Might Want to Use Them. (03/15/2011 Show)

October 11, 2010 by angishields

Corporate Conversations

Non-Compete Clauses in Georgia Are Enforceable - How Do You Make Them Work For You & When You Might Want to Use Them. (03/15/2011 Show)

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Most executives think that non-compete clauses are not enforceable in Georgia. That is wrong. They are – you just have to draft them properly. Learn how to draft enforceable clauses and when you should consider using them for your business. Changes to non-competes may be coming to make application broader – learn how.

Jeffrey D. Mokotoff, Partner Ford & Harrison, LLP

Jeff Mokotoff has a broad employment law practice and routinely counsels clients n a myriad of employment issues, drafts and reviews employment agreemnts, conducts management training, and litigates employment cases in state and federal court. He has extensive experience in representing clients cncnerning cass involving non-compete agreements, misappropriateion of trade secrts, employment/business torts, and wage and hour litigation.

Jeff is the co-editor of the “Wage & Hour – Fair Labor Standards Act” chapter of Ford & Harrison’s annual Sourcebook and the editor of Ford & Harrison’s Noncompete News newsletter. Jeff joined Ford & Harrison in 1996 and has published numerous publications related to non-solicits, non-competes and restrictive covenants in various environments.

Brian P. McGowan, Managing Partner Aquinas Search Partners

With over two decades of consumer goods and executive search experience, Brian McGowan’s approach to consulting consists of helping clients think through solution alternative to achieving their vision and delivering the leadership teams capable of making an immediate and sustainable impact. Mr. McGowan’s clients range from Fortune 50 market leaders to equity-back growth companies. He has completed over 250 executive search assignments.

Prior to leading Aquinas Search Partners, Mr. McGowan was a partner and consultant with two other global executive search firms. He has led search projects on a global basis and offers well developed senior management expertise across consumer oriented businesses, healthcare, and industrial markets. Before entering executive search, Brian acquired his marketing and business development expertise in both corporate and entrepreneurial settings. He spent 14 years in the consumer packaged goods industry at The Coca-Cola Company and Campbell Soup Company, where he developed a strong reputation for identifying and creating new business ventures, products, and channels. Additionally, he has built and commercialized two successful start-up companies.

Mr. McGowan is an active author and contributing speaker focusing his topics towards the needs of aspiring career minded executives. He has a M.B.A. from Case Western Reserve University and a Bachelor’s degree from Grove City College.

If Your Company is Stressed, How Stressed Are Your Employees? Are You Getting the Most Out of Them When You Need it Most? (08/03/10 Show)

August 17, 2010 by angishields

Corporate Conversations

If Your Company is Stressed, How Stressed Are Your Employees? Are You Getting the Most Out of Them When You Need it Most? (08/03/10 Show)

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Dawn Ely interviews these experts and executives to learn more about how employees are being affected by the stresses going on in their employers. How to identify when your employees are stressed, what the impact to the organization is and how to turn it around and keep your employees functioning at the highest levels to keep your organization performing at its highest levels.

Barry A. Boyles, Co-Founder Carciba Business Services, Inc.

Barry Boyles is Co-Founder of Carciba Business Services, Inc., an outsourced provider of human resources services for small cap companies since 2001. He focuses his main attention to the business objectives of clients and how to incorporate human resource strategies into these objectives. Mr. Boyles has been working in human resources for over twenty years, working in both Fortune 100 companies as well as small start ups in both B2B and B2C industries. His background covers all apsects of human resources with a heavy emphasis on organizational development and employee relations.

Linda Brenner, Co-Founder Designs on Talent, LLC

Prior to starting Designs on Talent, Linda Brenner was co-founder and Managing Partner of inTalent Consulting for five years. Both firms focus on talent acquisition and talent management optimization for Fortune 1000 companies; clients included top brands such as Chick-fil-A, Coca-Cola Enterprises, Equifax, TJX, Toys R Us and Microsoft. Prior to consulting, Linda spent her professional career in human resources at leading retail and restaurant companies. As Director of Retail Staffing at The Home Depot, Linda led the effort to centralize the staffing function for the first time in the Fortune 25 company’s history. She oversaw the hiring of over 100,000 field hourly and management employees annually. As part of that effort, Linda built nationwide hiring partnerships with the US Departments of Defense and Labor, as well as with AARP. Prior to joining The Home Depot, Linda worked for The HoneyBaked Ham Company as Director of Staffing, OD and Internal Communications, overseeing the performance review and succession planning processes, as well as leadership, operational and product training development and implementation. Prior to that, , where she ran training and management development for Pizza Hut’s Southeast Divisionwhen the restaurants where part of the Pepsi organization.