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...
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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...
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:...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...