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
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
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
A People Management Lesson From Bill Clinton: It’s the People, Stupid
When Bill Clinton was strategizing his successful presidential run in 1992, his campaign came up with three topics to help focus his message, especially in … Read more
Rush to Judgment: Where was HR When Juan Williams got Railroaded?
I’ve worked in a lot of places and supervised all sorts of different people. As most managers, I’ve had to fire people for performance-related … Read more
Weekly Wrap: Bad Bosses, Dissing Federal Workers, and 85,000 Applicants
Anytime you get into a listing of the “best of” or “the worst of,” you know that the list is going to be highly subjective, frequently shortsighted, and … Read more