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    • 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...

    • Mar 7, 2019
    • 1 min

    U.S. Department of Labor Issues Proposed Rule that Would Qualify More Workers for Overtime

    On March 7, 2019, the United States Department of Labor (“DOL”) announced a proposed rule that would increase the salary threshold for wo...

    • 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...

    • Feb 20, 2019
    • 4 min

    NJ Expands Paid Family Leave & Temporary Disability Benefits Significantly

    On February 19, 2019, Governor Phil Murphy signed into law Assembly Bill 3975, significantly changing New Jersey’s paid family leave laws...

    • Jan 24, 2019
    • 4 min

    Your 2019 Social Recruiting Strategy: Remember These Key Elements

    Successful recruiters know what job seekers want – the most qualified candidates. And for job seekers, finding a job is increasingly abou...

    • 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...

    • Aug 2, 2018
    • 4 min

    Recruit Smarter, Not Harder

    It’s happened to us all: That person—that star—the one who absolutely nailed their interview ends up being a dud. New hires end up in dud...

    • Jul 10, 2018
    • 3 min

    Tending The Leadership Pipeline: It’s All About Engagement

    Workplace lore has it that a manager who hires a millennial is facing a number of challenges. Among them: how to engage and retain a gene...

    • Jun 12, 2018
    • 3 min

    The Importance Of Leadership In The Workplace

    Higher education, known as continued education in the US and further education (FE) in the UK, is greatly in need of leaders. College, li...

    • 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...

    • Feb 8, 2018
    • 3 min

    Culture, Brand, Engagement: How Benefits Support HR’s Three-Legged Stool

    You know the old three-legged stool metaphor: you can’t sit down if one of those legs is off. In HR, that means culture, brand and engage...

    • 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 ...

    • Feb 21, 2017
    • 3 min

    The 6 Dated HR Technologies Your Company Needs To Replace

    This one may just get me in trouble with some of my clients and partners but I can't help myself. Just like professionals from other indu...

    • 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...