I had the chance recently to join a group of HR professionals who serve entrepreneurial, small to mid-sized organizations to talk about the realities and … Read more
Why You Need to Customize Your Employee Experiences
Is your organization skilled at creating a customized employee experience? Are your managers skilled at tailoring their management approach and … Read more
An Imperative For Today’s HR: A Sharp Focus on Data and Analytics
This past week I participated as conference chair for the first ever workforce analytics conference in the Middle East — the Workforce Analytics … Read more
Hiring Wisdom: Be Careful When You Set Employee Expectations
I’m a longtime advocate of how important it is for employers to tell the absolute truth in the hiring process. When you tell promising applicants the … Read more
How to Help Bring Your HR Department Into the 21st Century
There’s no good reason why HR departments should look like they did 20 years ago, but most of them still follow the same thinking. Technology has changed … Read more
What Getting Fired Taught Me About Choosing the Right Candidate
I hate to admit it, but I was fired from my first two jobs out of college. I felt like a failure and was dejected, not knowing why I could not succeed … Read more
10 Ways to Help Your Team to Be a Lot More Productive
“It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.” — Napoleon Hill, motivational writer If you’re not the boss or … Read more
Why Isn’t HR Driving Company Culture?
The other day while with a client, I mentioned something about the organization’s culture, and the client grumpily replied “I’m sick of hearing about the … Read more
How to be a Good Boss – It’s Not as Simple as it Sometimes Looks
Editor’s Note: Readers sometimes ask about past TLNT articles, so every Friday we republish a Classic TLNT post. Here’s a great question that I almost … Read more
Rewards Run Amuck: Contests That Demotivate and Destroy the Culture
“We’re adding a little something to this month’s sales contest. As you all know, first prize is a Cadillac El Dorado. Anybody wanna see second prize? … Read more