The Communicator Archive

2000 • 2001 • 2002 • 2003 • 2004 • 2005

2000

January • February & March • April • May • June • July
August • September • October • November

• January 2000
  • Just Informing Staff Isn't Enough
  • Tips for Conquering Procrastination

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• February/March 2000
  • Guidelines for Good Service
  • Retention Ideas
  • You Are Only As Good As Your Worst Employee
  • Why We Fail To Delegate
  • Tips to Make Life Easier
  • Black Jack Meetings

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• April 2000
  • HR Inventory Cheaper Than You Think
  
  
  • Make Work Enjoyable
  
  
  • Termination Recommendations
  
  
  • Employer Cheats
  
  

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• May 2000
  • Do You Really Listen?
  • 8 Stress Management Tips
  • Make Recognizing Employees Part of Your Daily Routine

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• June 2000 
  • Dear Debra- A discussion on hiring guarantees
  • Tips to avoid burnout
  • What are you doing about Sexual Harassment Awareness?
  • Can't Hurry Hiring

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• July 2000
  • Finding Employees - Places to Search
  • It's Your Job to Motivate and Energize
  • Top 10 Ways to Motivate Employees
  • HR Tip: Personnel file do's and don'ts

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• August 2000
  • Recommended Reading - "FISH! A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results"
  • Tactics to Boost Morale
  •  Ask Debra - A discussion on Wonderlic© Forms and Personality Profiling
  • HR Tip: Hiring Questions

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• September 2000
  • Is Training Really the Answer?
  • Legal Matters: FLSA 
  • Move Up The Ladder

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• October 2000
  • Information on Job Shadowing
  • More Thoughts on Training
  • Are Your Meetings Idea Killers?
  • Hiring Hints
  • OSHA Support
  • Tips for Employee Feedback

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• November 2000
  • Stop E-mail Madness
  • Performance Questionnaire
  • Hiring Tip: Employee Referrals
  • Recommended Vendor for Newsletters

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2001

January • February • March & April • May • June • July
August • September • October • November • December

• January 2001
  • Planning This Year for Success
  • Communication Musts
  • Hiring Tip: Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC)

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• February 2001
  • Trends Predicted for 2001
  • Training Tip: Ask Questions
  • Stop Yourself from Over-Committing
  • Hiring Tip: Employee Referral Program

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• March/April 2001
  • Exactly What is an X’er?
  • How to Manage Generation X
  • Dear Debra: Litigation Protection

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• May 2001  
  • Heloise’s Hints on Business
  • Are You Considering Hiring an Outside Sales Person?
  • Food-for-Thought: What the World Needs Now is Patience
  • Recommended Purchase: John Giles Revised & Updated "Digital Original"

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• June 2001
  • Management Thoughts
  • 10 Proven Ways to Improve Employee Productivity and Morale
  • Test Before You Hire – Wonderlic© Personnel Test
  • Recommended Reading “The Four Agreements”

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• July 2001
  • Surival Guide to Stress in Organizational Change
  • Customer Service – It will make or break your business.
  • NEW! Job Descriptions for the Mailing & Fulfillment Industry
  • Data Offers Insight on Job Satisfaction, Generational Differences
  • Recommended Reading – "The One Minute Manager Builds High Performing Teams"

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• August 2001
  • 12 Questions That Matter
  • 10 words Never to be used in Customer Service
  • Take Cues from Your Team
  • Do you Sabotage Teamwork?
  • Recommended Reading – "The Nordstrom Way – The Inside story of America’s #1 Customer Service Company"

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• September 2001
  • Thoughts and Prayers: September 11th
  • How to be Flexible in Times of Chaos
  • Recommended Reading – “Jack Welch and the GE Way” by Robert Seater

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• October 2001
• Maintenance of Personnel Files and Records
• Recommended Reading - "The World On Time"
• Keep Working for Your Boomers
• Don't Make Costly Legal Mistakes While Interviewing

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• November 2001
  • School District Adds "Employability" to Three R's
  • Managing Your Sales Team Through Tough Times
  • Recommended Reading - "First, Break All the Rules"

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• December 2001
• Recent Survey on Retaining Talent
• 'Tis the Season . . . How to Handle the Holiday Parties
• Recommended E-zine: Word Trippers
• Help People Kick the Holiday Blues

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2002

January • February • March • April • May • June • July
August • September • October • November • December

• January 2002
  • New Year's Resolutions
  • 5 Ways Bosses Can Help Their Employees
  • Free Tip Sheets on Managing, Hiring and Customer Service

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• February 2002
  • "Make Ready a New Generation" - Spread the Word About Career Opportunities in Graphic Arts
  • Groundhog Job Shadow Day - Start Job Shadowing Today
  • 2 Ways Bosses Can Hinder Their Employees
  • Recommended Reading - "Beyond the Myths and Magic of Mentoring (revised)"
  • 10 Great No-Cost Ways to Recognize Employees

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• March 2002
  • Trend Alert: Aggressive Recruiting - The Churning Has Begun
  • Employers Planning Lower Raises in 2002
  • Communication: Developing Positive Assertiveness
  • HR Tip: Does your team have a complainer?

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• April 2002
  • TG & Associates Expands Staff - Bill Greif Joins Team Full Time
  • Is your Employee Ready to be a Manager?
    
  • Compensation: One-Minute Tip for Retaining Employees
    

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• May 2002
  • Performance Appraisals - Two Perspectives
    
  • We now have Personality Profiling On-line!
  • Communication: Assertiveness vs. Casper Milquetoast

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• June 2002
  • A Great Story: "Catch of the Month" Employee Reward Program
    
  • Interviewing Requires Preparation: Steps to Assist You During the Interview Process:
    
  • Quick Quiz for Managers: What is a Manager?
  • Printips: A Newsletter Service for the Printing Industry
  • Planning Company Picnics: Liability Issues

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• July 2002
  • Wonderlic© Personnel Test Update: Available in 18 Languages
    
  • People Tip of the Month Club: Submit Your Ideas and Win!
    
  • People Tip for July: Motivating Employees , from Scott Cappel, Sorrento Mesa Printing, San Diego
    
  • Customer Service: The World According to TARP
    
  • HR Tip: Publicize Employee Benefit Programs
    
  • Employees Rate Health Insurance as # 1 Benefit
    
  • Work/Life Balance: It's all about Perspective
    

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• August 2002
  • Employee Relations: Listen-Listen-Listen
    
  • Hiring Process: Great Idea for a Classified Ad
    
  • Negative Effects of Excessive Overtime
    
  • News Flash: Individual Job Descriptions Now Available!
    
  • People Tip of the Month for August: Catering to Momss Needs, from Mailmedia, Inc.
    
  • Micro-Managing Destroys Morale and Initiative
    
  • Recommended Reading - FISH!
    

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• September 2002
  • 9/11 - One Year Later: What to Expect at Work
    
  • Employee Training Is Your Competitive Advantage
    
  • News Flash: You Can Now DOWNLOAD Individual Job Descriptions and Individual HR Forms!
    
  • Keeping Morale Up Through Lean Times: Alternatives to Financial Employee Incentives
    
  • People Tip of the Month for September: Great Idea for a Classified Ad, from The Master's Press
    
  • Recommended Reading - Die Broke: A Radical, Four-Part Financial Plan
    

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• October 2002
  • Work/Life Balance: What Concerns Your Employees
  • WGMT: New Association for Women in Graphic Arts
  • Introducing the Proception2 Online Profile
  • Employee Development: Some Thoughts on Coaching
  • Generation X: The Younger Side of Motivation
    

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• November 2002
  • Employee Retention Tips from an Employer of Choice
    
  • Communication: What's going on around here?
    
  • Ten Reasons to Train Your Staff
    
  • News Flash: Individual Hiring Kits Now Available!
    
  • Employee Management: Preventing Small-Business Fraud
    
  • Hiring and Interviewing: The Benefits of Diversity
    

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• December 2002
  • Plan Work/Life Balance for 2003 Now!
  • Tips for Conquering Procrastination
  • Small Business Association Launches Web Site
    
  • News Flash: Individual Hiring Kits Now Available!
    
  • Recommended Reading: John Woodens' Pyramid of Success
    

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2003

January • February • March • April • May • July
September • 4th Quarter

• January 2003
  • Job Shadowing Starts January 31, 2003
    
  • HR Tip: Driving is getting cheaper - Reimbursing Employee Mileage
    
  • New! Ask Debra Web Archive
    
  • People Skills: High Touch, Not High Tech
    
  • The World's Shortest Sales Course
    
  • Top 10 Forecasts - Workforce and Workplace 2003
    
  • Recommended Reading - Leadership: The Eleanor Roosevelt Way
    
  • Debra Thompson's Receives the PrintImage Industry Award Of Distinction

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• February 2003
  • Small Business Association Creates Spanish Web Site
  • People Tip of the Month for February: Team Book Reports, from PIP Printing
    
  • Recommended Reading: Impending Crisis
    
  • Your Competitive Advantage: Career Development is Key to Building a Strong Infrastructure
    

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• March 2003
  • Your Competitive Advantage: Are you ready to grow?
    
  • Training Your Employees is the Competitive Advantage
    
  • Teambuilding and Analyzing your Company Provides Another Competitive Advantage
    
  • Employee Surveys: Feedback You Can Use
    
  • IRS Offers Help for Small Business Owners: Free Resources to Aid You with Taxes

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• April 2003
  • Hiring Tip: Exercising Due Diligence: Reference and Background Checking are Essential
    
  • A New Hiring Peril: Consider Why the Applicant is Changing Positions
    
  • Teambuilding: The Value of Strong Management
  • Attitude Adjustment #2 from Marcus Buckingham

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• May 2003
  • Employee Retention: The Value of Training
    
  • Tips for Keeping Your Credit and Identity Safe
    
  • John Giles’ New Book: Digital Directions
    
  • Top 10 Motivators for Workers
    
  • Hire Right: Follow the Hiring Process Steps

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• July 2003
  • Hiring and Interviewing: Make Recruiting a Top Priority
    
  • Diversity: Do Men and Women Lead Differently?
    
  • Leadership Test: Are You a True Leader?
    
  • Welcome Home, Jason!
  • Employee Recognition: The Daily Routine

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• September 2003
  • Hiring & Interviewing: Impending Crisis: Don't Let It Catch You By Surprise
    
  • Communication: Spend Your Time Wisely!
    
  • Tips on Setting and Keeping Goals
    
  • Job Description Preparation Guidelines
    
  • Recommended Reading: "Now, Discover Your Strengths"
    
  • Managing Generation X

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• 4th Quarter 2003
  • What's all this Fuss about Leadership?
    
  • Truth or Consequences: Reference Checking is Not a Game
    
  • One More Thing on Prescreening Candidates
    
  • Recommended Reading: "Authentic Leadership"
    
  • Internal Customers: Remember Your Employees
  • Leadership Development Through Coaching

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2004

January • February • March • April • May • June
Summer • Fall

• January 2004
  • Happy New Year!
    
  • 2004 Workforce and Workplace Forecasts
    
  • Hiring & Interviewing: Community Outreach Can Work for You Too
    
  • Resolutions: Easy to Make; Easier to Break
    
  • Recommended Reading: Play to Your Strengths
  • TG & Associates' Customized Staffing Solutions
    
  • Economy: Are you Ready for Recovery?

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• February 2004
  • Make Your Company An Employer of Choice
  • The Real Costs of Obesity
    
  • Recipe for Hiring the Cream of the Crop
    
  • Hiring: You Need to Complete Background Checks
    
  • Recommended Reading: Digital Directions
    
  • Retention Strategies: Employee Retention At Risk

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• March 2004
  • Hiring & Interviewing: The Keys to Total Customer Loyalty
    
  • TG & Associates' New Article Archives
    
  • Termination: You Have To Do It Right!
    
  • Personality Types: What Language Do You Speak?

   

• April 2004
  • Minding Your Manners in Business
    
  • Random Drug Testing - Ask Debra Question
    
  • Training Has Impact on Bottom Line

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• May 2004
  • Congratulations, Shari!
    
  • Ahoy, matey! Are ye harboring music pirates?
    
  • The Rochester Institute of Technology Employment Resources
    
  • HR Forms Announcement - New Prescreening Forms!
    
  • Evaluating Skills: Is it a Strength or a Flaw?
    
  • Coaching: When you are ready, the teacher will be there!
    
  • Recommended Reading : The Precious Present
    

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• June 2004
  • Hiring Picks Up - But it's Pickier!
    
  • Performance Evaluations
    
  • Educating Students about Graphic Communications Careers
    
  • Common Sense Test
    
  • Monsters Amongst Us!
    
  • Vacation - Use it or Lose it!
    

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• Summer 2004
  • Summertime is a Time for Reflection
    
  • Email: A Critical Piece of Your Branding Strategy
    
  • Performance Review Tips
    
  • Recommended Reading: The EQ Edge
    
  • Pulling Your Hair Out Trying to Find Great Employees?
    

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• Fall 2004
  • Happy Holidays!
  • Out with the Old - In with the NEW!
    
  • TG & Associates introduces robust new staffing tools!
    
  • TG & Associates Launches HiringDept.com
    
  • Electronic Communications - Mind Your Manners
  • Motivating Employees through Corporate Incentive Programs
    

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2005

Spring

• Spring 2005
  • Updates from Debra
    
  • Another Associate at TG & Associates
    
  • New Digs for TG & Associates
    
  • Congratulations to Our New Placements
    
  • EMA Conference Highlights
    
  • Retention is Critical
    
  • Team Culture Analysis
    
  • Book Review - Guerilla Marketing in 30 days
    

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