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    • Jul 1, 2019
    • 2 min

    Pop Culture Helps Employees Understand Harassment

    Want to know a little secret? I’m a sucker of pop culture. I like reading young adult novels and cool business books that tell us to not...

    • Jun 10, 2019
    • 5 min

    Why you mad? Fix your face.

    Back when I was still working in the hospitality industry (I was a Master Trainer and HR manager for a global hospitality brand in my fir...

    • May 15, 2019
    • 7 min

    5 STRAAAAANGE TIPS FOR AWESOME MEETINGS

    Meetings aren’t exactly the most popular workplace activity, as illustrated by this passage from the book jPod by Douglas Coupland: Here’...

    • Mar 12, 2019
    • 3 min

    Manager's #1 priority? Train their replacement.

    One of our big mantras to clients is that a manager's primary job is to hire and train their replacement. Managers shouldn’t be threatene...

    • Feb 27, 2019
    • 4 min

    Go From Negative(-) to Positive(+)

    Employees like time off. According to an article in Harvard Business Review, flexible hours and vacations are the two most popular employ...

    • Dec 3, 2018
    • 1 min

    LMS: Go Beyond Compliance

    We’ve sent our metro clients many emails on how New York’s new “Stop Sexual Harassment in NYC Act” law will affect their business (and how...

    • Nov 9, 2018
    • 2 min

    eNPS - My new acronynm for your HR dictionary

    Over the past two years or so, I've heard and talked about measurements like employee net promoter score (eNPS) to understand employee en...

    • Oct 15, 2018
    • 3 min

    10 Financial Skills Every Manager Should Know

    I ran across an article on the Association for Talent Development site titled “Financial Skills Every Manager Should Be Able to Navigate”...

    • Sep 19, 2018
    • 2 min

    Employee Engagement Is Not Impossible

    Fortunately or unfortunately, employee engagement is a hot topic. Don’t get me wrong, engagement is important. There’s a proven link betw...

    • May 17, 2018
    • 2 min

    Assertive = Good, Aggressive = Bad

    Why all of the confusion about what is assertive behavior versus aggressive behavior? Please allow me to share my thoughts, observations ...

    • Apr 30, 2018
    • 3 min

    The Social And Mobile Workplace: Climate Change Is Real

    We’ve all watched (and some of us have helped) Social and Mobile (SM) rise to the forefront of the world of work. It’s applied a new sour...

    • Mar 15, 2018
    • 2 min

    4 tips to help candidates ease up during Interviews

    Smile and set the stage. A smile can loosen up the entire tension in the room. Treat your candidates like a guest who has come to visit y...

    • Jan 9, 2018
    • 1 min

    What is the Future of Work?

    According to Intuit, by 2020 40% of American Workers will be freelancers. Another study conducted by MBO partners found that today there ...

    • Nov 7, 2017
    • 2 min

    HR is a Consulting Function not Shared Services

    Here's a worthwhile thought I'd like to share for this week: I was listening to a podcast from last year this past week. Josh Bersin, Pri...

    • Aug 2, 2017
    • 2 min

    Ways To Keep Your Productivity Up

    As busy HR professionals we use the word focus in many ways, whether it be in terms of what project we need to focus on next, what the fo...

    • Jun 1, 2017
    • 3 min

    Work Life Balance: Dangers of Snoozing

    How many times did you hit the snooze button this morning before you finally dragged yourself out from under the covers? C’mon, be honest...

    • Dec 13, 2016
    • 3 min

    Good Management Skills: Nature Or Nurture?

    Earlier this year, Gallup issued a fascinating study that looked at why great managers are so rare. It concluded that while one of the mo...