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VOLUME 1 ISSUE 14

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IN THIS ISSUE...

The Ayers Perspective

The Age-Advantaged Workforce Part II

Succession Planning Recommendations

Principles for Executive Women

Trends in Executive Coaching

Successful Landings

Bill Ayers Named GPOIC Executive of the Year

College Day 2006

Look Who’s Turning 60 in 2006

AYERS REPORT

Editor in Chief:
Joan Caruso

Writer:
Catherine Carlozzi

Designer:
Roberta Martin

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The Ayers Perspective
Synergies and Integration

Over the years, I’ve helped numerous clients with the HR aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Now I’m going through the experience with my own firm following our acquisition by Kelly Services in May. And I’m finding it’s very different from this side of the process.
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The Age-Advantaged Workforce Part II
A Different Job Strategy
by Terry Ebert

The Conference Board estimates that by the end of this decade, 40 percent of the U.S. workforce will be eligible to retire. Of major interest to aging baby boomers—who have made it clear they have no interest in traditional retirement—is the extent to which companies ultimately will look to them to take up the projected slack.
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Succession Planning Recommendations
Consultant's Corner
by Susan Michener, Ph.D.

Effective succession planning maximizes the use of resources across the entire organization. When succession planning is allowed to play out at the micro rather than macro level, that objective is difficult to achieve. One test of effectiveness is to pull back and look at how many of the individuals who have been placed in management positions when openings occur are on the organization’s high-potential list. If you don’t have a high hit rate, you’re not making optimum use of your talent.
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Principles for Executive Women
by Rosemary Maxwell Lynch, Psy.D.

Following is the second article in our new series of articles exploring 10 Principles for Executive Women.*
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Trends in Executive Coaching
by Joan Caruso

It’s been more than a decade since coaching gained a toehold in the corporate environment, and it has continued to broaden its acceptance. I find it valuable to periodically take stock of emerging trends in the field and validate them against our own experience at The Ayers Group.
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Successful Landings
by Doug O'Connor

Job searchers are often reluctant to network among former colleagues. Some overlook or resist the idea of networking "down" among former subordinates. "Whether it’s out of pride, fear that former peers won’t be receptive, or a mistaken feeling that lower-level colleagues can’t be helpful, you have to get over this kind of thinking," says Doug O’Connor, Senior Vice President in Ayers’ Career Transition group.
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Bill Ayers Named GPOIC Executive of the Year

Bill Ayers was honored as Executive of the Year by the Greater Paterson affiliate of the Opportunities Industrialization Center of America on September 29.
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College Day 2006
Learning How to Stand Out in the Crowd

The 2006 Ayers College Day Seminar on August 10 drew a record turnout. For the 118 participants, there was quite a bit of good news. First, this year’s graduates are finding an even stronger market than graduates of recent years.
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Look Who’s Turning 60 in 2006

It began on January 1 at one second past midnight with the birthday of Kathleen Casey, hailed as the nation’s first baby boomer; it will continue for the next 18 years. Every seven seconds, someone in the U.S. turns 60—an estimated 7,918 a day.
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