I was at the SMA Staffing Symposium in Seattle this week, and Laurie Ruettimann (former PunkRockHR blogger, current New Media Services founder) spoke to … Read more
Leading in Tough Times: It’s Good to Be Positive, Because it Always Matters
As a leader how do you deal with with negative energy? This has come up a lot lately, so I wanted to talk more about this point I mentioned a while back as … Read more
A Split Decision on Employee Rights When Using Office Computers
By Brent A. Cossrow When employees resign to join competitors, it is not uncommon for employers to review the former employees’ workplace computers … Read more
Networking and the Wok Principle: Do It Like A Mongolian Grill
Have you ever been to a Mongolian grill? I have and I’m guessing they aren’t authentic but I do know that there is no tastier way to combine … Read more
HR’s Big Task: Keeping Its Finger on the Pulse of the Workforce
By Michelle T. Johnson When average people think of the HR department in the company where they work, they tend to think of the “resources” aspect of the … Read more
7 Memorable Lessons on Work & Life
Note: Frequent TLNT contributor Fran Melmed attended this month’s Business Innovation Factory 6th annual summit (BIF-6) in Providence, Rhode Island. … Read more
A College HR Director’s Worst Weekend: When Mascots Fight
If I’m the Human Resources Director or Vice President for HR at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, I probably woke up this morning wondering, “how did … Read more
Low-Ball Offers for the Unemployed: Just Our Free-Market System at Work
CareerBuilder had a new survey out today, and on first glance, it will make you cringe. Here’s the headline: “More Than Half of Unemployed Workers With Job … Read more
Handling Problem Employees, or Struggling With Our Own Paris Hilton
Sometimes, readers say the darndest things – like this: hey, enough about difficult managers already; what about problem employees? Okay, I’ll admit that I … Read more
The Annual United Way Campaign: So Why Again is HR Stuck With This?
By Laurie Ruettimann The fourth quarter is an exhausting time of year for most Human Resources professionals. Companies finalize their budgets. Open … Read more