Professional Life Articles

• Award winners tops in promoting retirement readiness

  Profit Sharing/401(k) Council of America's Signature Awards contest, 2007 was a good year.

• Taking the fall: Workshop emphasizes gaining, giving trust as key ingredient to career success

  When Carol Evans, president and CEO of Working Mother Media, opened a town hall meeting last November in Washington, D.C., declaring that trust was not only a business and cultural imperative but crucial to one's personal career success, the mostly female audience appeared somewhat, well, distrusting.

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• Virtual reality: Most teams work remotely, increasing need for different processes

  Globalization, enhancements in technology and the expansion of flexible work schedules and telework have scattered many work groups, which raises a new challenge for managers, experts say.

• Key to top achievement? Stop setting goals

  When most people make a goal, they state something they want to do or achieve, set a completion date, create checkpoints for the goal and then cross items off their list as they get done. Unfortunately, such an approach rarely leads to long-term success.

• Reduced copays may increase patient adherence, states new article in PBMINews

  Drugmakers are in a race to find newest "miracle pill" for weight loss, according to an article in PBMINews, a publication of the Pharmacy Benefit Management Institute. Another article in this issue highlights how reduced copays may help increase adherence with chronic diseases. PBMInews is one of many drug benefit resources available to employers with a membership in PBMI.

• Views & Vents - On Barking Oneself

  In this month's Views & Vents, benefits consultant Corey Sherman turns his spotlight on the relationship between employers and consultants. His "tails" of consulting efforts gone wrong will resonate with both HR professionals and advisors.

• Dream it, then do it - Author advises pros on 'How to Land Your Dream Job'

  Conventional wisdom says that to find a job you should write a detailed resume, send it to as many HR departments as possible and then sit back and wait for the phone to ring. However, Jeffrey J. Fox, author of "How to Land Your Dream Job: No Resume! And Other Secrets to Get You In the Door," thinks otherwise.

• Companies invest in training, career development

  The investment that firms are making in employee training and career development is growing faster than all other areas, including base pay, according to a new Mercer survey of 580 companies in the United States and Canada.

• Dispatches from Dallas, Day 2: Benny Award Winners Announced!

  Greetings from Dallas! We're up to our ears in benefits-related news and keeping tabs on the hottest trends in benefits management during our 20th Annual Expo, held Sunday-Tuesday of this week at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas, Texas. We?ll be keeping you up-to-date on the conference goings on through our Top Stories tab, so check back regularly for up-to-the-minute conference coverage.

• Benny awards recognize 'best of the best'

  Excellence in benefits management and advisory services was on display when Al Schubert, vice president, strategic alliances and management for Benny Award sponsor VSP, praised "the best of the best" during the annual presentation.

• Report: First 100 days on the job critical for CHROs

  Chief human resource officers (CHROs) can help themselves immensely by establishing a strategy within their first 100 days on the job to ensure their workforce is engaged and empowered to deliver desired business results, according to a new report by Mercer.

• Sibson reveals secrets of successful performance management

  High performing companies tend to have stronger performance management than lower performers do, according to the 2007 State of Performance Management Study conducted jointly by Sibson Consulting and WorldatWork.