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191: Succession Planning - Insurance For Your Business
Succession planning is often talked about but rarely carried out. Sometimes we only think about replacements for a few key jobs. Often, not even that. Good succession planning can have big benefits....

192: Don't Waste That Bonus - Give Them a Reason to Stay, Well Designed Incentives Can Make a Difference
Paying a bonus sounds easy and safer than giving a pay rise. But be careful. It can lead to problems or, at best, just be a waste of money. Learn how to spend your rewards money wisely....

193: Team Building 101
Building and running a team that boosts your income...

194: Recruiting the right people for the right job
To be successful in this profession, you need the right people doing the right jobs. How do you hire the right people?...

195: Salaries: Bringing It All Together - Performance, Market And Job
Building a salary system can bring many benefits to a business and prevent a lot of friction and wasted time. It is important to have the fundamentals in place and then design a system that meets your needs. It need not be complex....

196: Being Competitive With Pay - Linking to the Market
Deciding what to pay people is often difficult and often winds up with winners and losers instead of a sensible and fair agreement. Looking to the market in a systematic way along with a well designed salary system can ease the pain....

197: Who Gets Paid What? - Getting The Internal Relativities Right
Problems associated with pay are not productive and cause ongoing friction within businesses. While it is nearly impossible to pay everyone what they want it is possible to build a fair and consistent system that works....

198: Outsource Your Hiring Process
More small businesses and hiring managers are choosing to outsource some or all of their hiring process. Hiring a "virtual hiring manager" allows them to focus on their ongoing responsibilities and have piece of mind that an experienced person is going to direct to them the most qualified individuals for their open positions....

199: Is Pay Important? - Yes If You Get It Wrong
With many businesses pay is normally negotiated when someone is recruited and then doesn't get another mention until there is a problem. There is a way of making sure this problem is fixed and stays fixed....

200: It's All About Performance - Or Is It?
Why do some people just not work out? Technically they can do the job, we checked that during the recruitment process. They just don't fit....