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Grahall Announces the 2nd in a Series of Seminars on Health Care Reform

by Garry Rogers 

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May 25th, 2010

Grahall Announces the 2nd in a Series of Seminars on What Health Care Reform Means For Your Business:  Wednesday, June 02, 2010 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM (Eastern Time)

Delve deeply into the immediate concerns affecting your plans in 2010 and 2011.  Takeaways include strategies on dealing with rate hikes, dependent status, small business tax credits, and keeping your grandfathered status.

Who Should Attend?
    • Owners
    • CFOs
    • HR managers
    • Benefit managers

Presenters
    • Robert Cirkiel, Chief Actuary, UHY Advisors
    • Todd C. McDonald, President, Aisling Partners Insurance Brokerage
    • Pate Steele, Consultant, Grahall Consulting Partners

To download information from the first seminar in this series including a recording, all presentation materials, and other information go to http://www.grahall.com/knowledge/event-transcripts/.  (Note that the conference content begins about 6 ½ minutes into the recording.)

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Expert Perspective - Organization Development

Filling the Gap – 3 Strategic Moves to Make Now

by Joe Davidson 

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May 25th, 2010

Expert Perspective by Grahall’s OmniMedia Editorial Board

In her May 12, 2010 article titled The Workforce Paradox: We’re Short on Talent, Not Just Jobs for Bloomberg’s Business Exchange, Tammy Erickson writes:  “There are significant, growing shortages of skills in critical job categories. The recession may have obscured this trend for a couple years, but it marches steadily onward. Even at the height of the recession in 2009, U.S. companies were struggling to fill certain kinds of positions… [and] many of the jobs now being created require skills that the workforce doesn’t possess in sufficient quantity.”

There is vast evidence to support this from authoritative studies, anecdotal information and empirical evidence.  We all agree that there is a shortage of labor with the necessary skills.  

And we can all agree that this is NOT a new problem; in fact, this trend has been observed for nearly 40 years. 
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