Barbara Milhizer, Author at Ere Media API

Barbara Milhizer

Barbara Milhizer, CCP, SPHR is a partner at PeopleResults, a human capital consultancy focusing on change, organization, talent and communications/new media. Barbara’s background includes over 15 years of HR with key leadership roles in rewards & recognition and talent strategy at both Accenture and PeopleResults. Contact her at bmilhizer@people-results.com.

Exit Interviews: The 2nd Most Worthless Activity HR Has To Handle

Barbara MilhizerJuly 24, 2015

Editor’s Note: Readers sometimes ask about past TLNT articles, so every Friday we republish a Classic TLNT post. Let’s be clear, the most useless HR … Read more

Exit Interviews: The 2nd Most Worthless Activity HR Has to Handle

Barbara MilhizerMarch 27, 2015

Editor’s Note: Readers sometimes ask about past TLNT articles, so every Friday we republish a Classic TLNT post. Let’s be clear, the most useless HR … Read more

The SHRM Certification Flap: How to Fail Communications 101

Barbara MilhizerJune 11, 2014

As an SPHR (certified senior human resources professional), I should be worked up about the Society of Human Resource Management’s recent announcement that … Read more

Coming Down To Earth, or How Do You Handle Overconfident Employees?

Barbara MilhizerJune 4, 2014

Recently the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) released its survey of math, science, and reading skills of 500,000 15-year-olds across … Read more

Recognition Done Wrong? It Starts Killing Your Stars

Barbara MilhizerMay 15, 2014

My last weekend was spent reading 33 college scholarship applications from some amazing kids. They didn’t just volunteer, they started charities. They … Read more

Deficiencies, Benefits and the Real Winners in the New War for Talent

Barbara MilhizerApril 30, 2014

In his book David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants, author Malcolm Gladwell spends a lot of time talking about how presumed … Read more

Is Your Talent Brand Totally Toxic?

Barbara MilhizerFebruary 5, 2014

As I watched Sunday’s Super Bowl commercials, I paid particular attention to those with celebrity endorsements. At a staggering $133,000 per second … Read more

What Penney’s Ron Johnson Could Have Learned From Pope Francis

Barbara MilhizerNovember 29, 2013

OK, they’ve probably never met, but it strikes me as interesting how two “turnaround” leaders of embroiled organizations, took wildly different approaches, … Read more

Stupid is the New Brilliant — Is Your Company OK With Risk-Taking?

Barbara MilhizerNovember 14, 2013

Everyone wants to be innovative. Companies think that because the word appears on their website in 42 point font that makes it so. But what is innovation … Read more

Managing Millennials: Leveraging Their Strengths to Benefit Everyone

Barbara MilhizerOctober 30, 2013

Millennials have out-sized expectations for their careers. They have been told they can be anything and do anything according to their terms. They are … Read more