| As HR practitioner, are you a Cost-Center or | | | | through practice. Then I realized; if only I |
| Profit-Center? How do you contribute to the | | | | knew this skill when I was yet a manager, |
| bottomline results of your organization? By | | | | life could have been easier and more |
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| also for non-HR managers who understand that | | | | desire to help fellow HR practitioners, that |
| human resource management is a line function. | | | | you may have the short-route and avoid the |
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| justify, but deep inside we don't feel good | | | | office skills you can learn is how to |
| about it. Oh yes, it necessary for the | | | | effectively use Microsoft Word. You may not |
| functionality of an organization. And I | | | | know it, but MS Word has a lot of excellent |
| personally hate it when they tell me - it is | | | | and underutilized features. It will take us a |
| a necessary evil. Because no matter how | | | | whole book to discuss details, so I decided |
| necessary it is, the perception remains that | | | | to give you a complimentary copy of an e-book |
| it is evil. This is the path I've chosen, and | | | | "The Secrets of Microsoft Word." It is |
| I love HR no matter how others call it. In | | | | actually sold at $14.95 but I got permission |
| fact, paper-pushing is just one of the myriad | | | | from the author to give it to you for free, |
| of activities an HR is expected to do. I had | | | | only if you're interested. Please send me an |
| so much aversion to paperworks and | | | | email so I can reply and attach the e-book. |
| administrative duties during my time, and was | | | | Hope you learned something of value today. |
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| just imagine how his pc monitor looked like | | | | practitioners grow and improve in this |
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