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		<title>How to Manage Without Micromanaging</title>
		<link>http://managemyemployees.com/leadership-tips-motivating-employees-micromanagement-leadership-employee-retention/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 13:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Article #53 Micromanagement is often defined as “excessive control of people or projects” and it is popularly viewed as an evil not a good. But is it entirely? I believe that the ambiguity comes when we try to get our arms around exactly what is excessive? Most micromanagers I have encountered do not realize they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>7 &#8216;Business Trends&#8217; and How Gen Y Employees Will Help You Survive If You Let Them</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Article #52 I’m not a futurist, but, if you ask me to look through my plexiglass ball – I see 7 Major Trends that will impact most companies over the next ten years. More importantly, I believe there is a link to those trends and 7 Ways to Engage Gen Y Employees to help your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Customer Service Junkie</title>
		<link>http://managemyemployees.com/customer-service-junkie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Holmes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Customer Service]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Article #50 Admittedly, I’m addicted to great customer service. I like to get it. I like to give it. Whenever I don’t get great service, I’m disappointed. At times, it makes me boiling mad. Take the experience I had the other day around nine in the morning…. My Customer Service Experience Was Terrible I stopped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Gen Y Workers Wish Managers Knew About Managing</title>
		<link>http://managemyemployees.com/what-gen-y-workers-wish-managers-knew-about-managing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Holmes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communication Skills for Managers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Article #48 Is your company attracting then retaining bright, younger workers successfully? Is your community keeping its best and brightest or are they moving away for greener pastures? This begs the question: What do Gen Y workers want anyway? And what exactly do they expect from a boss in terms of managing work efforts, effectively? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thanks for the Bonus &#8212; I Quit! &#124; The View from Harvard Business &#124; BNET</title>
		<link>http://managemyemployees.com/thanks-for-the-bonus-i-quit-the-view-from-harvard-business-bnet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Short article # 40&#160; The article from BNET (link below) makes an apt point regarding employee praise, a point that should be common knowledge for any manager or leader:&#160; Principle: deserved praise is critical to feelings of connectedness, employee loyalty, as well as ongoing contribution of uninhibited effort. One of my own consulting engagements closely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Say You Want Employee Input. Better Mean It!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Short article #36 and #37 (combined) It all started three or four decades ago with the ubiquitous employee suggestion boxes. For the most part, those antiquated&#160; methods of getting employee input never really worked very well. Why? Mainly, employees sensed that management really didn’t want their input. Two things in particular tipped them off. First, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Balancing Employee Pay With Praise</title>
		<link>http://managemyemployees.com/balancing-employee-pay-with-praise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Holmes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Employee Performance Reviews]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Short Article#34 I was interviewed by Kevin Gray at BNET (a CBS owned top-tier business web site) for the article: Can’t Pay Employees What You’d Like? Praise Them Instead.&#160;BNET is a great site for articles on management, strategy, marketing and more. Personally, I’ve been struck by how many insightful comments have been posted to this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Motivating &#8220;Distance Employees&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://managemyemployees.com/motivating-distance-employees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Holmes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Employee Retention Strategies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blogger Jason Christensen linked to a recent BNET.com article interview I gave regarding “Can’t Pay Your Employees What You Like? Praise Them Instead&#8220; You might want to check out Jason’s article on motivating and building the morale of remote employees, I found it pertinent. He offers up a number of useful ideas especially if you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4 Powerful Words to Employees&#8217; Ears</title>
		<link>http://managemyemployees.com/4-powerful-words-to-employees-ears/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Holmes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communication Skills for Managers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Short Article #29 “What do you think?” asked the manager to her employee. Surprised, the employee responded, “Well, I don’t know if this would work or not but I think…” Those four words posed in the question, “What do you think?” may be more telling of one’s management style than any other sign. Why? Here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Employee Disengagement or Low Morale?</title>
		<link>http://managemyemployees.com/employee-disengagement-or-low-morale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Holmes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attitude]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Managing Difficult Employees]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Short article # 28 Is there a difference in disengagement and low morale? Perhaps, as author Terry Kabachnick asserts in her book, I Quit But Forgot To Tell You. Low morale is not disengagement. Low morale occurs when an employee gets frustrated with the work load, the work environment or their supervisor. Disengagement occurs when [...]]]></description>
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