The term “human capital” refers to the knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA’s) of people within an organization. For the most part, business professionals … Read more
Inclusiveness Dilemma: The Challenges Dealing With Differences at Work
College football star Michael Sam’s announcement last week that he is gay, and would soon the first openly gay NFL player, rekindled some hot workplace … Read more
3 Ways That JetBlue Gets the Most Out of Social Recognition
During my career as an employee recognition strategist and consultant, I’ve had the honor and privilege of working with many truly innovative and forward … Read more
Investing in Employees: Smart Companies Are Increasing Their L&D Budgets
A 2014 report from Bersin by Deloitte, The Corporate Learning Factbook 2014: Benchmarks, Trends, and Analysis of the U.S. Training Market relays some … Read more
You Can Apply Olympic Best Practices to Your Own Workplace Team
Anyone who knows me knows I’m an “Olympaholic!” I LOVE the Olympic Games — Summer, Winter, it makes no difference. I love them all! Beyond admiring … Read more
Hiring Wisdom: 3 Timely Management Tips Worth Remembering
Here are three timely tips: We need to stop training employees and instead start developing them. (We train animals; we develop people. ) Employees need to … Read more
Increasing Motivation: It’s Determining Just What Is the Right Approach
Second of two parts We all strive for a harmonious workplace that offers us the opportunity to bring out the best in ourselves and others and to do … Read more
The Power of Setting Expectations – Especially When It Comes to HR
I had the most remarkable conversation with a new client CEO this week. As a kickoff to the project, I wanted to understand his expectations about the work … Read more
Pivoting in Business: It’s Something That HR Needs to Learn to Do
One of the things we HR practitioners get dinged on consistently is our ability to be flexible. Yes, there are compliance pieces and yet other things that … Read more
Motivating Employees Can Simply Be a Choice of Promotion or Prevention
First of two parts In which kinds of situations are you most effective? What factors strengthen — or undermine — your motivation? People answer these … Read more