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		<title>Do You Have What it Takes to Be a High Performer?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 18:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martha Carlson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a not-so-well kept secret. I’m competitive. Therefore, whenever I’m asked a question that begins “Do you have what it takes….” it gets my energy flowing! I’ll bet your energy is flowing right now if you’re reading this! Before I tell you what it takes to be a High Performer, let me describe one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NARROW is OUT.  WIDE is IN.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 17:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jan Dick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Enterprise Thinking”…new-age consulting lingo or an essential strategic concept? 
Enterprise Thinking is the ability to think broadly across the business and organization in order to gain a big picture perspective.  It’s a pretty straightforward concept, but a skill many leaders lack; particularly those who tend to defer to their own area of specialty, which can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If You Can&#8217;t Beat &#8216;Em&#8230;Join &#8216;Em</title>
		<link>http://www.thebaileygroup.com/if-you-cant-beat-em-join-em/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 04:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Danielle Paulson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My turn for the blog again…which means Leigh is either out of town or enjoying this sunny weather “course-side” (read: golf). I was glad to have the opportunity to blog this week as I’ve been considering an interesting workplace dynamic lately and wanted to share with our readers. As an almost-masters-program-graduate working within a consulting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Telling and Asking and Influencing (Oh My!)&#8230;Create More Engaged Employees</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 19:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barb Krantz Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leaders today all want more engaged employees—both in the sense that leaders want more employees who are engaged AND leaders want all employees to be MORE HIGHLY engaged. Including employees in decision-making is a sure fire way to increase engagement, but inclusion can take many forms…including TELLING, ASKING, and INFLUENCING. My definitions of these words [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bailey Group Named as one of Best 100 Companies To Work For</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bailey Group was recently announced as a winner in Minnesota Business Magazine&#8217;s 100 Best Companies to Work For competition. For the first time in our 23 year history, The Bailey Group is on the list in the small company category. Apparently we practice what we preach AND preach what we practice as many of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CEO&#8217;s We&#8217;d Take to Dinner</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:27:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martha Carlson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My daughter was recently interviewed to be a counselor at a summer camp. One of the questions she was asked was, “who is someone, living or dead, you would like to have lunch with and why?” This question prompted me to think about which CEO&#8217;s we’d like to take to dinner and why. Here’s who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did You Hire a Million-Dollar Employee? Find out how your talent acquisition process ranks.</title>
		<link>http://www.thebaileygroup.com/did-you-hire-a-million-dollar-employee-find-out-how-your-talent-acquisition-process-ranks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 22:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jan Dick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his book Million-Dollar Hire, author David P. Jones contends that employers should put the same amount of thought and effort into their recruiting and selection practices as they would any million-dollar investment.
In fact, after recruitment costs, qualification of candidates, HR costs for onboarding, training, and development &#8211; not to mention negotiated salary and benefits [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Big Ways to Get the ‘Million-Dollar Employee’</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jan Dick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Years ago, a colleague of mine shared his CEO’s stance, “Think of every hire as a ‘million dollar hire!’”  Scratching my head, I took a fully loaded compensation of a $75,000 salary for five years, added costs of hire, on boarding, and training, and layered in a minimum two-year delay to full productivity and quickly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can This Executive Be Saved?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 17:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leigh Bailey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bailey Group got a call last week from an HR professional inquiring about our executive coaching services. He was interested in discussing coaching for an executive who currently reports directly to the CEO. This particular executive was described as being “brilliant,” but has left a trail of damaged relationships in his wake. The million-dollar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Be Trusted or Not to Be Trusted. That is the Question.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:46:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barb Krantz Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“It astounds me how little senior management gets a basic truth: If clients don’t trust you they will eventually stop doing business with you. It doesn’t matter how smart you are.”
 &#8211;Excerpt from Greg Smith’s (former Goldman Sachs senior executive) resignation letter
 
Greg Smith’s quote caused quite a stir after being printed in the NY [...]]]></description>
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