Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC), Employment & Training Administration What is WOTC? The Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) is a Federal tax credit available to employers for hiring individuals from certain target groups who have consistently faced significant barriers to employment. WOTC joins other workforce programs that incentivize workplace diversity and facilitate access to good jobs for American workers. What does WOTC do? WOTC helps targeted workers move from economic dependency into self-sufficiency as they earn a steady income and become contributing taxpayers, while participating employers are able to reduce their income tax liability. How large is the tax credit? The maximum tax credit ranges from $1,200 to $9,600, depending on the employee hired. Looking for more information?
Filing - How to Manage Your Documents and Your Time - Time Management Training from MindTools Managing Your Documents... and Your Time Filing is an important skill! © iStockphoto/sdlocal Have you ever kept a client or your boss waiting on the phone while you've searched the piles of papers on your desk for an important document? If you have, then your boss and your client may not have a good opinion of you, because in a key encounter, you've let them down. And if it's your job to help people, how much of other people's time are you wasting if you can't find the documents and papers you need, when you need them? You owe it to yourself to file effectively, however boring this may seem. Managing Time Even in the age of email and the Internet, we still deal with many paper documents and files. All too often, though, we waste our own time (and often the time of other people) searching for data that's actually sitting somewhere on our desk or in an office filing cabinet. Managing Information Efficiently Effective File Management Here are some tips to help manage your files: Tip: Key Points
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Building High Performance Teams - 5 Simple Steps By Lyndsay Swinton There’s something not quite right at work. Your colleagues are generally a good bunch and work gets done, but yet you’re in early, leave late and a full lunch break is a distant memory. Chances are you’ve been down-sized or re-engineered so radically there’s zero tolerance for mishaps or delays, and you extend your work day to pick up the slack. Step 1 - Master your own destiny Realise you don’t have to be the “boss” to build a high performance team. Step 2 - Put your eggs in one basket Chances are you’re a member or leader of many teams at work. Step 3 - If you don’t know it’s broke, how can you fix it? Regardless of how established the team is, invite constructive feedback about the team's performance. Step 4 - Proper practice prevents poor performance Footballers spend 95% of their time practicing for the big game. Step 5 - A stitch in time Keep going. As my grandmother said, don’t have a wish-bone where your back-bone should be! Citation Information: Swinton, Lyndsay.
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Knowing & Switching Leadership Styles for Managerial Effectiveness « Leadership Champions We discussed few topics like ‘What is Leadership?‘ and ‘Situational Leadership‘. Research on Leadership style model are usually based on orientation between Task behavior & Human Relationship behavior. Basically, knowing these leadership styles helps us in adopting them in different situations. Like Hersey & Blanchard Situational Leadership model, William Reddin introduced a model of leadership style containing four basic types, namely: 1. 2. 3. 4. Further, by measuring the level of effectiveness of each style Reddin developed this basic model into eight leadership styles. The below table shows the Less Effective & More Effective Leadership styles in each basic types. This is a legalistic and procedural approach: adherence to rules and procedures; acceptance of hierarchy of authority; preference of formal channels of communication. This is an affective (supportive) approach. This is the objective counterpart of the missionary style. This is a directive and controlling approach.
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A Review of Free, Online Accessibility Tools You are here: Home > Articles > Accessibility Evaluation Tools Introduction Many web designers, developers, and evaluators are introduced to web access through accessibility tools. However, web accessibility requires more than just accessibility tools; it requires human judgment. Important No automated evaluation tool can tell you if your site is accessible, or even compliant. Classifications of Accessibility Evaluation Tools There are many different types of evaluation tools that can be used to determine whether or not web content is accessible. Standards and guidelines used One key in understanding accessibility tools is to understand the standards to which the tool was developed. WCAG 2.0 consists of three priority levels that act as an industry standard. Section 508 Similarly, Section 508 of the United States Rehabilitation Act outlines the requirements for making federally-funded web sites accessible to individuals with disabilities. Free vs. commercial Who will be using the tool. Scope
tips and downloads for getting things done @Blueluck: Very true - I've seen other countries where people leave their family in another country to go find work, and then to manual labor for extremely cheap just to be able to send it all home to their family. I guess that could be interpreted as their purpose, but the work is not purposeful in and of itself. I guess "pay enough to take money off the table" covers that, so we're only talking about how to motivate people after they're at the comfortable level most Americans that read this blog are at. Interesting results in India, though. I believe there is a threshold that once you're paid a certain amount, you feel on top of things like you deserve it, so you don't work hard to move up further. I think that's one reason government employees aren't known for super service. @Blueluck: Its completely subjective, is the answer.
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