Please take the time to vote in the weekly poll in the right hand column of this blog. Different than my usual polls, this poll is a survey to determine ... Read More

Are you working more, enjoying it less, and dreading the time you spend most days at your work place? If you answered "yes" to this question, take some time to ... Read More

Stress is normal. Everyone feels stress related to work, family, decisions, your future, and more. Stress is both physical and mental. It is caused by major life events such as ... Read More

Your small business has unique opportunities and challenges. There are best practices that exist for small business - proven solutions to the troublesome issues you face with your human resources ... Read More

Want to know more about creating quick, fun ice breakers for meetings, team building sessions, and training sessions? I am a huge proponent of ice breakers that reinforce the content ... Read More

As more organizations reengineer, merge, downsize, and even capsize, employees confront uncertainty daily. The rules keep changing and since most have little control over the rules, the result is often ... Read More

One key factor in employee motivation and retention is the opportunity employees want to continue to grow and develop job and career enhancing skills. In fact, this opportunity to continue ... Read More

Selecting and retaining great staff is key for business success. Talented people who continue to develop skills and increase their value to your organization and to your customers are your ... Read More

It is time for Human Resources practitioners to rethink their role and that of the HR department, not only for the purposes of contributing to the organization's bottom line, but ... Read More

HR Solutions, Inc., a Chicago-based management consulting firm specializing in Employee Engagement Surveys, recently analyzed recurring themes in employee surveys and compiled the following top ten list. These are the ... Read More

Gary Billings says, "I once read an article in which Mickey Mantle tells about a recurring dream. He’s racing to get to Yankee Stadium in a panic, because he’s late ... Read More

In today's turbulent, often chaotic, working environment, commercial success depends on employees using their full talents. Yet in spite of the myriad of available theories and practices, managers often view ... Read More

Having just hired a new HR Director for a client company, I am very clear about what candidates for the position did that really turned us off. I don't in ... Read More

In their annual survey, the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) predicts that these trends will be among the most important to employers: the rising cost of health care coverage, ... Read More

Performance management is an extremely well visited topic on this site. Some days, I think most companies must be constantly redesigning their performance management systems and seeking new ways to ... Read More

Please take the time to vote in the weekly poll in the right hand column of this blog. To make it to an interview, a candidate has already passed a review ... Read More

I'm writing this blog for today from the 34th floor of the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, New Jersey. I can see the Atlantic Ocean and the boardwalk from ... Read More

The Pension Protection Act of 2006 offers retirement tax breaks and tougher rules on charity contribution receipt retention. About's William Perez says that, "The House of Reprensentatives and the ... Read More

Having done a lot of recruiting in recent years, I had wondered how many applicants were typically arriving at the company from the various sources we used for recruiting. My ... Read More

In the category of what could she be thinking, About's Alison Doyle wrote a blog about a young woman who is job searching. Apparently, everything about the resume eliminates her ... Read More

I've used this successful team building icebreaker for so many years that I don't remember where it originated. This team building icebreaker is fast, easy, and fun. Try out this ... Read More

Every organization needs traditions. Traditions are the special events, happenings, cultural manifestations, activities, and ways of doing business that are uniquely yours. They are hallmarks of your organization and help ... Read More

Forget what you’ve heard about “being one of the boys,” “having it all,” and “going for the jugular.” Here is how real working women get ahead. Working women favor smarts ... Read More

Want to make people happy? Make people sad? Care to create an uproar in your organization that rivals in ferocity any change you’ve ever introduced in your history? Want to ... Read More

My article about How to Make a Potential Employer Fall in Love With You sparked both praise and controversy. There are two perspectives to every job search issue. In ... Read More

If you work in an organization, you’ve heard this complaint repeatedly. Leaders and managers say they want change and continuous improvement but they don’t walk their talk. The power of ... Read More

An effective, successful manager pays attention to many facets of management, leadership and learning. He or she displays characteristics that make people want to follow them. Here are seven tips ... Read More

Conflict avoidance is most frequently the topic when conflict in organizations is discussed. Conflict resolution - as quickly as possible - is the second most frequent topic. This is bad ... Read More

You want to have the necessary policies and procedures to ensure a safe, organized, convivial, empowering, nondiscriminatory work place. Yet, you do not want to write a policy for every ... Read More