As CEO of a marketing company, I have the opportunity to work with clients large and small to implement LinkedIn-based, employee-first social media … Read more
How Crowdsourcing Can Improve Your Performance Review Process
Seth Godin sets the bar high for bloggers with short, pithy posts that drive home an important point. A post a few weeks ago honed in on this point with … Read more
Have You Asked How Much Revenue You’re Costing Your Organization?
Is everyone in your company valuable? Your CEO will say “Yes” publicly, but privately, we all know the deal — some employees are more valuable than … Read more
4 Good Reasons You Should Re-Think HR Outsourcing
As far as the new trend of outsourcing professional work goes, I’m not a big fan. I don’t believe HR should outsource strategic work such as … Read more
Who You Gonna Call? Your HR Physician Can Diagnose What Ails Your Organization
Imagine going to your general practitioner, and after a few questions, you get a prescription. During this process, she pulls out a list of best practices … Read more
Dear HR Professional: Are You Ready to Make the CFO Your New BFF?
It’s all the rage in HR land. Many and various thought leaders and industry pundits exhorting us to build a more collaborative relationship with … Read more
4 Steps to Enable Your New High Performers
As organizations become more matrixed, employees are sharing more responsibilities, authority, and accountability than ever before. While informal working … Read more
The One Smart and Practical Thing That Successful People Always Do
A graduating student recently asked me, “What is the main difference between people who advance and people who don’t?” In thinking about … Read more
3 Lessons for Creating a Workplace Culture of Innovation
There’s a lot of bad advice in the business world, and even worse aphorisms. One I particularly abhor is “Failure is not an option.” Of course, in some … Read more
Developing Leaders: 10 Steps to Help to Do It Through Delegation
Creating future “owners. That’s the job of a leader. That means cultivating team members who “own” the vision like we do, not merely directing a group of … Read more