By Roger Schwarz Effective leaders want productive relationships inside and outside their team. Effective teams improve the way they work together over … Read more
Smartphone Use by Non-Exempt Workers: It’s Even a Problem For Police
Do your managers expect employees to check their emails and other messaging options after hours or on the weekends? (That’s sort of everybody, … Read more
Employee Entitlement: You Need to Know Your Cart from Your Horse
Second of two parts I once had a client – a large commercial bank – whose managers were fond of urging employees to “run it like you own it.” Employees … Read more
Performance Management Is Simple: You Either Work Hard, or You Don’t
HR ladies secretly love to write performance improvement plans. Let’s face it — performance problems are exciting. No matter how it ends, HR looks like it … Read more
The 3 Keys to Effective Employee Recognition
Employee recognition done right is easy, but it’s not simple. An article in Time magazine reminded me of this truism, inspiring me to share with you these … Read more
Re-Tooling “Flexibility” – Is the Way We Describe It Getting in the Way?
Jack Nilles was a Southern California engineer who coined the term “telecommuting” in 1973. It caught on. Frank Luntz is a Republican marketing strategist … Read more
Employee Entitlement: Why You Need to Beware of Self-Inflicted Wounds
First of two parts As human resource people see it, entitlement is organizational tuberculosis, a wasting disease that saps energy from the enterprise. … Read more
Learning From LEGO: Core Values Must Define Your Workplace Culture
Harvard Business School recently issued a new business case study on The LEGO Group, makers of the famous toy plastic building blocks. I’m sure most of us … Read more
Digital Natives: Is Your Company a Go-To Place For Gen Y Workers?
You may know them as Millennials, Gen Y, Echo Boomers or the Peter Pan Generation. Whatever you call them, “Digital Natives” will form 70 percent of the … Read more
Trouble at the Top: Getting a Handle on Corporate Trust & Betrayal
From Enron to the Vatican Bank scandal, there is no shortage of examples of powerful individuals betraying their companies, colleagues, and subordinates to … Read more