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 give a flying f%ck ...

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 first year of "real wor...

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

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 threatened by this because it...

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

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 River Run HR can h...

Over the past two years or so, I've heard and talked about measurements like employee net promoter score (eNPS) to understand employee engagement. I don’t kn...

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

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

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

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 source of heat; flooded ...

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 your home or a custom...

According to Intuit, by 2020 40% of American Workers will be freelancers. Another study conducted by MBO partners found that today there are approximately 30...

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, Principal and Founder, ...

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 focus of our next meet...

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. But let yourself s...

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