Beverly Kaye and Sharon Jordan-Evans.The most talented people on your team are the ones that show up day after day, do their jobs well and contribute to the organization’s success. Whether they are high-potentials or solid citizens, they are stars. This revised edition of the international bestseller (more than 230,000 copies sold of the first edition) shows managers not only how to keep the employees they can’t afford to lose, but also how to keep those employees engaged and energized by giving them what they really want -meaningful work, opportunities for growth, and excellent bosses.

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The London Skills Council today launches a major new programme of action to tackle London’s chronic skills shortages in the public and private sectors. It has set up the London Framework for Regional Employment and Skills Action (FRESA) with the aim of ensuring that employment and skills programmes better serve the needs of Londoners and businesses in the capital. There are critical shortages of nurses and teachers throughout London.The NHS estimates it will need an extra 45,000 people over the next five years to fill job vacancies to meet London’s rising demand for services. A scheme jointly delivered by the NHS and the London Skills Commission aims to address this shortage through recruitment, training and retention programmes for health workers across Greater London.

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A framework of measures to promote sustainable communities has been announced by Deputy Prime Minister John Prescot. Funding in total will amount to 22 billion pounds. The framework brings together a number of measures to tackle the housing provision mis-match between the South-East and parts of the North and the Midlands and to provide affordable houses for key workers such as nurses, teachers and police.For areas of low housing demand in the older urban areas, such as the North West, a housing market renewal fund will allow local councils to operate homeswap schemes. The council will buy a rundown property and the homeowner will be re-housed in a refurbished house in a nearby street. The existing mortgage will be carried to the new property.

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