Saying “please” and “thank you” is one of the most fundamental communication strategies we use to project our own intentions and gauge the intentions of … Read more
Success in the Global Workplace Takes Understanding the Culture
An engineering manager I’ll call Geoff was sent to his company’s Mexican subsidiary to direct a team of engineers. His job was to get a production line up … Read more
Is Your Company Suffering from Expectation Alignment Dysfunction?
It happens to the best of us — Expectation Alignment Dysfunction, or EAD. If you haven’t experienced it yet, you probably will. It’s fast becoming the … Read more
The New Rules For Business Success In the Digital Age
Note: This is part one of a two part series on what’s required of successful leadership in the digital age. Part two posts tomorrow. Leadership of … Read more
For Greater Employee Engagement, Do These Two Simple Things
I just had an experience that reminded me of simple opportunities managers have to impact employee engagement. These are opportunities to let employees … Read more
HR Roundtable: How HR Can Encourage Encouragement
We decided to start the HR Roundtable (of Cincinnati) off in 2017 on a positive note. The topic was “Encouragement At Work” and we were going to explore … Read more
The Robots Are Coming. What Are You Doing About It?
I hope you didn’t miss yesterday’s post about the World Government Summit and its full day Global Dialogue for Happiness. I know it sounds like … Read more
How Innovations Revolutionize Talent Acquisition
This past week I had the opportunity to attend the Spring SourceCon event in Anaheim, CA. It was chock full of ideas, information, and enthusiasm. One of … Read more
What You Need to do to Make Your Engagement Strategy More Effective
Employee performance management trends are in constant evolution due to the different needs of five generations all in the workplace at once. Poor … Read more
You Are Rating Employees Even When You Say You’re Not
Note: This is the second of three articles dealing with managing performance and compensation in the post-ratings organization. Monday’s article … Read more