Does your organization have a set of stories and sound bites that your recruiters and hiring managers share with potential candidates, stories that say: … Read more
4 Mistakes You’re Making in Your Performance Management Process
Leading a team is quite a rewarding experience. Managers get to be the ones who instill the culture and values of the company into the workforce and watch … Read more
Google’s 5 Key Team Dynamics: Just Another Way to Define Engagement?
Back at the turn of the century when Google was just a startup bucking for excellence, they had a strict policy of hiring only Ivy League grads at the top … Read more
Tech Insights: On-Demand Talent Comes to the Aid of Recruiting
One of the most important new categories of HR technology is the talent platform. These are the apps that connect clients to on-demand labor. In almost any … Read more
Hiring Wisdom: Here’s a Surefire Formula For Business Success
While you probably do extensive recordkeeping to track how well your team meets customer service standards and goals, I doubt you track how well you are … Read more
HR Roundtable: How Do You Know if Your Organization Is Healthy?
The February HR Roundtable in Cincinnati was cool because the topic was suggested by one of the regular attendees. That kind of engagement is awesome and … Read more
How One Doctor Is Showing Us How to Tear Up the Organizational Playbook
“Within six weeks, they had to send a truck around to pick up all the wheelchairs,” Thomas told the Post. “You know why most people [in nursing homes] use … Read more
When It Comes to Feedback, Are Your Employees Ready for “Radical Candor?”
Getting helpful feedback at work has always been a challenge. You hear from the boss immediately if you screw up. Otherwise, the annual performance review … Read more
Why You Need to Adopt Employee Goal-Setting to Really Drive Performance
Google the definition of a goal and you will find this: “The object of a person’s ambition or effort; an aim or desired result. An intention.” As a … Read more
How (and Why) Great Leaders Are Great at Delegating
One thing I love about the work I do is that it gives me contact with a wide range of leaders. I especially enjoy the opportunity to learn from those whose … Read more