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Tim Eiring, Centare

Tim Eiring, Centare

IB's Professional of the Week is the premier way to meet the state's professionals. This week features Tim Eiring, vice president of operations, Madison region, Centare.

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After Hours

with Jody Glynn Patrick

CFO Awards: Nominate your ‘Dan Bullock’!

Dan Bullock: He’s clear speaking, levelheaded, creative, compassionate, and reliable. He is also known for being an early adopter of a “paperless” workspace, preferring electronic records to file cabinets. But more than that, he’s a contributor to his company’s bottom line and growth potential. Dan, the CFO at Cleary Building Corp., is a friend of mine, and I hope that he applies to be in the running for In Business magazine’s CFO awards, because I believe he would be a strong contender. If he doesn’t win, he will have nonetheless set the bar high for other competitors.

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How to leverage Twitter to ensure you gain absolutely nothing from the next conference you attend

For the last several years, I’ve made my living talking to people. I’ve been fortunate enough to meet people in almost every industry, from almost every background, and in every state except for Delaware and Hawaii. (I don’t know what I’ve done to annoy the people who live there, but I’m sorry for whatever I did, so please invite me sometime. I will bring cake.) It’s a fun job if you don’t mind airports, and if you get the sense that the things you’re saying are the kinds of things that your audience is excited to hear.

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Leader to Leader

with Terry Siebert

Three keys to keeping your employees engaged

Late last year, our Dale Carnegie corporate office commissioned a study on employee engagement in the workplace. Conducted by MSW research, the study focused on 1,500 employees aged 18 to 61 across all business sectors. Employee engagement is defined as the emotional and intellectual commitment of employees to deliver high performance. What the research found is that there are three primary drivers of employee engagement.

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Mind Your Business

with Corey Chambas

Bring your ‘B’ game

Last weekend I went out for my first bike ride of the year. The first ride is always hard, and I was battling a strong wind that day too. The bad news was I realized my computer battery was dead. But that ended up being the good news, as I didn’t know how slow I was on that first windy ride.

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Forward HR

with Diane Hamilton and Nilesh Patel

Your employment contracts are not the place for a scavenger hunt

Can an offer letter be an employment contract? How about an employee handbook? Yes, they can be, but it is much better to not have that be the case. As shown by a recent Milwaukee case, without drafting the terms of a formal employment contract, there can be needless confusion and expensive litigation.

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Blaska's Bring It!

with David Blaska

Blaska may be mistaken, but Soglin is evil

Normally, I would have written “wrong” for “evil.” But it is the habit of our acquaintances on the Left to personalize the political. An old Alinsky strategem. Thus, is Scott Walker portrayed with little Hitler mustaches. It is why the self-righteous mobs subject the governor’s family to taunts on his front lawn in a residential neighborhood at midnight. I thought it might be instructive for the other side to try that on for size, for once. See how it fits.

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The Gray Area

with Donna Gray

12 ways to reduce your work stress

Peter Drucker said, “No one ever has more than 25% of their time under control.” It’s easy to lose control and get overwhelmed during busy times, and one can get frantic when deadlines approach and there don’t seem to be enough hours in the day. I’ve seen some folks who are usually calm, cool, and collected get cranky, crabby, and semi-ballistic when faced with the stress of having no control of their time. One has to find the best way to deal with the time-constraint challenge.

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The Web Chef's Cafe

with Paul Gibler

Google+: a plus or minus among your social media platforms?

The armamentarium of social media platforms and tools used by consumers and businesses continues to evolve and grow. This growth has made choosing the networks in which to “play” and sometimes “pay” a challenging task. Among the newer ones gaining steam is Google+. While still in its relative infancy, more than 100 brands have more than 1 million followers on Google+. Among these are iconic brands like Ford (2.6 million+), General Motors (1.4 million+), Time magazine (~3.4 million), U.K.-based newspaper The Guardian (1.8 million+), and less iconic brands like humorous illustrator Rodney Pike (~1.6 million).

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Left Business Brain

with Tom Breuer

Impeach Obama? Hey, knock yourself out

I don’t want to overly downplay the severity of the three scandals bedeviling the Obama administration right now, but Republican whispers about impeachment bespeak a cluelessness not seen since the last time the GOP tried to oust a sitting president. Seriously, did they learn nothing from the Clinton years?

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Financial Perspectives

with Michael Dubis, CFP

‘You can do better!’ … Compared to what?

One of my jobs is to analyze performance and solicitations that clients occasionally get from outside money managers, mutual funds, and other “advisors.” I sometimes hear the saying “you can do better” or “you can do better than what you’re currently doing.” It drives me nuts.

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Free Minds At Work

with Cay Villars

Three steps for overcoming anger and frustration in others

Imagine this nightmare scenario: You show up at a meeting where you’re the speaker and you suddenly realize only half the group received the memo about who you are and the purpose of the meeting. The only notice most received was “this is a mandatory meeting,” and it is 6:30 p.m. on a Monday Night Football night, no less. Needless to say, at least 10 of the 20 people are upset. How would you change this anger and frustration (fear) in order to free minds and have a productive meeting?

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Transportation Matters

with Craig Thompson

50 may be the new 30 for some, but …

My wife, Michelle, and I built our house about 12 years ago now. One of the things that appealed to me at the time about building new was not having the unexpected cost of home repairs that older houses can stick you with. (The other thing that appealed to me was that Michelle told me, “We are building new.”) Well, all you homeowners out there know that there is no such thing as a “new” house for long.

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Van Lines

with Joe Vanden Plas

About those state jobs numbers …

Anyone who is familiar with the phrase “lies, damned lies, and statistics” will understand the editorial decision that I’m about to explain. The poster child for this saying could well be the preliminary – and we do mean preliminary – monthly jobs data for Wisconsin that are released by the Department of Workforce Development, based on statistical information provided by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Archive »Biz Report

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Unemployment drops in 67 of 72 counties

Madison Fire Department won't train at MATC

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  • Blaska may be mistaken, but Soglin is evil

    Conservatives wanted the names on the recall forms made public so that those forms could be examined for fraud. Other than that, we didn't care who signed the form. Oh wait, we did care when ...
  • About those state jobs numbers …

    Come on people, there is no way to make a positive out of Scooter's job creation performance. His outrageous campaign promises in this area notwithstanding, our numbers are far behind the ...
  • Is Paul Soglin that stupid?

    Blaska yells discrimination, yet he has no problem trying to discriminate against my religious view for abortion when needed, he yells descrimination for Care Net which uses bait and switch which ...

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