A Big Ego
Your department in shambles? Your employees lack enthusiasm? Are they no longer offering any new ideas and seem to lack innovation? Is your office full of bickering and finger-pointing? One of the...
View ArticleThe Danger In Overpraising Employees
Employees that are good at what they do oftentimes don’t hear it. They are so good that even when they do a little extra, it becomes viewed as the norm and is virtually unnoticed. Most times when we...
View ArticleADApting To Employee Needs
Please visit Performance I Create for my new post on compliance and decency in the workplace. Here is a sample… “The very foundation of what HR professionals do is ensure that our organizations avoid...
View ArticleWhen The Phone Stops Ringing
I so often hear complaints about the amount of calls and questions we get in our Human Resources departments, but what if they stopped coming? I’m guilty sometimes too. From time to time I let out a...
View ArticleA P.I.P. Shouldn’t Be An R.I.P.
It’s so easy to say that employees should just go away when they’re not performing the way we want them to or responding to our management. The hard part is not actually getting them to change...
View ArticleLeadership Position, Follower Mindset
I see a lot of things in my line of work. Organizational issues, backbiting and fighting, several people that need to shut up and sit down, but more importantly, people in leadership positions that...
View ArticleWorkplace Diversity Isn’t Enough – Let’s Ramp Up Inclusion
Today I am over at Performance I Create discussing Diversity and Inclusion. We typically see these two terms in the same sentence used interchangeably, but it is so very possible to have one without...
View ArticleMake Good Business Decisions, Not Popular Ones
I believe that the most difficult part of being a true leader is the ability to make the tough call even when it meets resistance. Do we tell people untruths to avoid hurting their feelings? Do we...
View ArticleWorkplace Astigmatism
For the last 10 years, I’ve boasted that my vision has not changed. I laugh at optometrists when I walk into their examination rooms because I know that the result is going to be the same…”Well Mr....
View ArticleForget HR! I’m Going To Work For Starbucks
Is the grass always greener on the other side? Not necessarily. But I can tell you when it comes to employee incentives, benefits and having executive advocates, the coffee may be stronger and sweeter...
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