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		<title>Seven ways to beat Stress</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 08:46:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Jackson, chairman of leading technology venture capitalist Elderstreet Investments, gives SmallBusiness.co.uk his tips for dealing with stress. 1) Assume the very worst-case scenario and then plan from there I am often accused of being unduly pessimistic when I use this technique, but it works for me at the outset and provides me with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is needed to make UK more competitive</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 08:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Efforts to close the UK&#8217;s productivity gap with its major international competitors are being fatally undermined by a leadership and people management skills deficit in the UK, according to the CIPD. Responding to the Government’s Skills for Sustainable Growthconsultation, the CIPD has highlighted the &#8220;skills multiplier effect&#8221; that good management can have in unlocking the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Six reasons why projects fail. Planning the implementation of your HR software project</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 09:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just because you&#8217;ve invested in new HR software doesn&#8217;t mean it will solve all your problems. In fact, most projects fail to deliver to their full potential. It&#8217;s a depressing statistic, but research from the IT research specialist Standish Group suggests that less than 50% of software projects in large organisations will meet their objectives, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Key changes under the new Equality Act explained in series of podcasts by Acas</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 08:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Acas, the employment relations service, has launched the first in a series of new podcasts explaining key changes under the new Equality Act that come into effect tomorrow (1 October). Steve Williams, Acas’ head of equality, said: &#8220;One of the issues we have had enquiries about relates to the outlawing of health-related questionnaires in job [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can HR keep up with the pace of self-service technology?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All the evidence points to self-service saving time and money yet take-up remains low and the technology is becoming ever more advanced. David Woods looks at why HR is dragging its feet. Difficult as it is to imagine, when Apple launched the iPod &#8211; its first foray into the consumer MP3 market nine years ago [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Employers risk loosing talent</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 08:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Employers will lose talent if they don&#8217;t make better use of employees&#8217; skills. Employers face a challenge to retain their most talented employees, warns a Randstad survey. The new report shows employers do not properly understand what motivates their employees to continue working for them. It also found employers are failing to utilise fully the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can new technology predict when employees are going to be off?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2010 10:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is no shortage of statistics on rates of staff absence. And systems are now being developed that not only record absence data but actually predict when an employee will next be off. The danger is that such information can be open to misinterpretation. Robert Gray reports. Is absence the biggest barrier to Britain&#8217;s economic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four times more men than women phone in sick because of work-related stress</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 11:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Men are four times more likely than women to phone in sick due to work-related stress Of the 3,000 workers surveyed by healthcare cash plan provider, Medicash found 20% of men admitted to taking two sick days in the past month because of stress. And work-induced stress is also driving twice as many men as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Identifying and Managing Stress at Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:16:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[September 21st 2010 The CIPD has launched a new guide highlighting the potential legal risks employers face if they ignore their health and safety responsibilities around workplace stress. The guide, produced with support from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), Acas and the cross-government Health, Work and Wellbeing programme, spells out employers’ legal obligations in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July NEWS</title>
		<link>http://agathonconsulting.co.uk/news-agathonhr-achieve-people-inc-partner-accreditation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:37:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AgathonHR achieve People Inc Partner Accreditation P&#38;A Software Solutions has recently put in place an accreditation scheme for partners. The aim of this scheme is to give official status to partners and recognition to individual employees working with P&#38;A Software Solutions products. AgathonHR are delighted to have achieved this People Inc. Partner Accreditation and have [...]]]></description>
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