Editor’s Note: With the Academy Awards nearly here, TLNT asked some prominent thought leaders for insights on their favorite movie with a HR management … Read more
The HR Law of Diminishing Returns
I was talking to friend recently about an interview process they were going through. I’ll take you through the steps: First contact. Came in the form of a … Read more
Is HR Helping Employer Skirt Discrimination Laws? We Can Do Better
The Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf was recently featured on the ABC series What Would You Do?, a show … Read more
Get Busy Living or Get Busy Dying: Life, Hope, and The HR Redemption
Editor’s Note: With the Academy Awards fast approaching, TLNT asked some prominent thought leaders to reflect on their favorite movie with a management or … Read more
Seat at the Table? Now it’s “Laws of the Jungle,” and 7 Tips for HR to Survive
Survey after employee survey, focus group after focus group and interview after interview, employees tell you that the thing they dislike most at work is … Read more
Lessons From a Courteous Garbage Man: Anyone Can be a Great Employee
For me, garbage day is Monday morning. It may sound funny but it is one of the ways I know that the work week is starting. I put the trash and recycling … Read more
Building a Brand: What Would Your HR Department “Elevator” Pitch Be?
If you had to create a commercial for your HR department, what would it say? In creating brochures or other collateral material, what would be the value … Read more
Valentine’s Day Sermon: Why Office Relationships Are Self-Destructive
Every year around February 14, just like clockwork, the workplace-oriented polls, surveys and so-called experts with some insight or opinion about … Read more
Bookmobile HR, or Why Changing a Workplace Culture is so Terribly Hard
In HR we talk a lot about “hiring for culture” – it’s a nice, professional way to say, we want to hire people who “fit” in with the rest of us. We try and … Read more
What Do You Do When an Online Connection Goes to the Great Beyond?
Sometimes when I use social media, I see dead people. Just yesterday, when I was scrolling through my 600 plus LinkedIn contacts, I was struck by two … Read more