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Welcome



Happy New Year! With 2008 behind us it is now time to focus on our New Year’s resolutions.

Are you an Employer who has to make some difficult staffing decisions this year? Here are some Top Tips on tackling redundancy situations that may help you begin this process.

How will these hard economic times affect your organizations HR initiatives? Read our research article HR Priorities for 2009 and Beyond.

We’re interested in your feedback so feel free to share it by emailing us at feedback@insala.com. We hope you find this issue of InfoLink interesting and informative.

Have a great day!

The Insala Research Team

Spotlight

Mentoring

Improving Mentoring and Communication through Online Programs As more workers are approaching retirement age and planning how they will spend their time, organizations need to be able to retain their knowledge and what better way than Mentoring.

Hi-Impact Mentoring®. Have your training budgets been reduced? Have you ever thought of Mentoring as a cost-effective alternative to engaging your employees and increasing performance within your organization? Learn more about Hi-Impact Mentoring®.

Featured Articles


The Insala Outplacement Industry 2009 Forecast
What is the outlook for the outplacement industry in 2009? Will it thrive? How will your business be affected? This review of recent research is optimistic as it explores factual data on upcoming layoffs, increased usage of outplacement, new proposed legislation likely to boost the outplacement industry.

Redundancy tips for employers Redundancies are difficult for employers, and one mistake may result in severe consequences, financial or otherwise, for the organisation. Here are some top tips on tackling redundancy situations.



Whitepapers
Boosting Workforce Development: A Coaching Centered Work Culture Searching for new ways to engage critical workforce segments and groom your next generation of leaders? A coaching centered culture may be the ticket. Read what Deloitte coaching experts have to say.

Leadership Development: Bringing Technology Solutions to Life In today's busy corporate environment, efficiency and scale are key. We have come to believe that the more people we reach with our message and our programs, the greater impact we will have. This white paper will discuss how programs, processes, and technology can be carefully woven together to bring the human touch to Leadership Development. Through targeted employee branding, programmatic elements, and properly sequenced follow-through and measurements, you can make Leadership Development live and breath in your organization. Technology cannot be the methodology; it is simply the engine that makes solutions run.

Insala News
EmploymentTalk™ Version 4 is the next generation in online career services technology. The web and the way people interact has moved on significantly in the past twelve months and the economic downturn is fueling individual’s interest in trying to new things to be successful. Watch this space to find out how Version 4 can help you and your firm keep ahead of the competition while delivering a truly world-class services to your Clients.

Organizations Increasingly Turning to Online Outplacement Solutions Amid Global Job Cuts

Insala's European team will be attending the ACF Europe bi-annual European Conference as keynote speakers on March 5th 2009. Hosted in Brussels Insala will speaking about the trends in the global career transition market.

How To Fire 50,000 People Technology makes it easier, but laying off thousands of people is both costly and labor-intensive. Read more on this interesting article written by forbes.com