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Today is employee appreciation day. A day set aside to show employees that you care about them, appreciate their efforts and value their contributions. Many businesses have events planned today, ranging from formal presentations in the auditorium to pizza parties in the break room. All of these gestures are good…
Brian Williams has been in the news recently. Not on, in. The scandal surrounding his “misremembering” of past events has made him material for the tabloids. It’s also forced him off the air. A news anchor that bends the truth is seen as distrustful at worst, inauthentic at best. Mr…
The song “Stay With Me” just won a bunch of awards at the Grammy’s, and the timing couldn’t be more fitting. Nearly 3 million jobs were created in 2014, the best year since 1999, and the number of unfilled job postings has not been this high in a long time…
I’ve read and heard many good definitions of culture, most of them coming from the world of academia. Few, however, are written from an employee’s perspective. If HR leaders could hear what employees think about the world they work in (i.e. your company’s culture) they would pay more attention to…
December’s Jobs Report, released last Friday, made news for a variety of reasons. The 252,000 net new jobs created along with positive revisions made to previous postings were considered healthy signs by experts. But to me the real story was not in the monthly numbers, but in the aggregate figures…
So you had the best intentions. You implemented a new employee recognition program. Good for you. Problem is no one’s using it! Now what? You are learning a hard lesson: all of the care and planning in the world means little if managers don’t embrace the system from day one…
What are the top leading priorities for today’s CEO? According to the Wall Street Journal ‘s guest blog website; one of the biggest concerns is “team member excellence.” An aspiration made possible through outstanding recruitment and retention and all the other human resource practices that support it. CEOs expect to…
We have all heard the term “enabler.” It’s someone who provides the means, environment or opportunity for another to continue bad habits. The term is most commonly used with those who partake in social vices. But what about a business? Can it, too, be an enabler, or more specifically a…
Valentine’s Day is all about showing that you care. Cards and flowers will be sent today between people in various stages of a relationship. So let’s use today to focus on what makes a good “working” relationship. Relationships begin when people have things in common. Respect and trust cement the…
Who is Alexa? Or should I ask, what is she? Alexa is the digital assistant inside Amazon’s new voice activated smart speaker called the Echo system. You can ask it to do a lot of different things such as play music, update you on the news, tell you about the…
