By Mel Kleiman If you’re having a difficult time attracting enough quality front-line workers and retaining them long enough to realize a return on their … Read more
Five Reasons Your CEO Doesn’t Care About Employee Engagement
I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve heard about employee engagement at various webinars, lunches, and conferences. We talk about ways to … Read more
Four Signs To Help Encourage Employee Wellness
There’s no doubt that we have a lot of unhealthy people in the U.S. workforce — and more set to enter it at some point. Disease management, acute risk and … Read more
From the Energy Files: A Little Bit of Direction Goes a Long Way
This edition of “From the Energy Files” comes from data we have been collecting in the Leadership Pulse™ project. Since 2003, we have been sending short … Read more
Should You Be Using Facebook For Recruiting?
One of the interesting things I’ve heard over the last few months as I’ve talked to different people and companies is how they couldn’t … Read more
The FMLA Challenge: Reinterpreting the Law for a Diverse World
By William R. Hanna Nothing in the world of employment law remains static and unchanged – least of all, the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). Since … Read more
How to Talk (or Sell) to Executives – and Get Invited Back, Too
Most companies I work with want to sell higher value deals to higher level executives. The problem is, their sales force doesn’t know how to talk to … Read more
Survey: 70% of Businesses Don’t Have a Strategy for Developing Women
Does your organization focus on women when they talk about having a more diverse workforce? Some do, of course, but the vast majority of businesses — … Read more
10 Ways to Develop High Quality Human Capital Metrics
Today, HR practitioners and senior executives are continuing to recognize the growing importance of metrics in effectively shaping the strategic position … Read more
The NPR-Juan Williams Incident Shows Why HR Really Matters
I don’t want to keep beating on the Juan Williams-NPR firing fiasco, but there are a few loose ends to tie up before we move on. Loose End No. 1: NPR … Read more