Whether your company is a serial acquirer or you’re just now going through your first acquisition, the potential to experience employee fallout can be … Read more
Deloitte Survey Digs Into Millennials’ Perceptions About Our Workplace Culture
Deloitte’s 4th annual Millennial Survey sends a message from more than 7,800 degreed and employed Millennials from 29 countries around the world to … Read more
The Reality of the Brian Williams Case – Workplace Demotions Rarely Work
Quietly, Brian Williams returned to NBC last week. Not in his usual spot of Nightly News anchor, but in a demoted spot on MSNBC for less pay: The embattled … Read more
Management 101: How to Handle Passive-Aggressive Workplace Behavior
Janet wore a smile from the nose down; her eyes bore daggers. If I offered a Friday afternoon off for having finished a big project early, she “wished” it … Read more
How Bullies and Barbarians Can Ruin Your Workplace Culture
A friend and I were sharing “speaker war stories” recently, prompted by his jaw-dropping experience earlier that week. Here’s what happened… Just as my … Read more
A Handy 5-Step Formula to Resolve Conflict with Your Employees
When rules are broken in situations that don’t call for immediate termination, gain your composure and think “Open The Front Door Now.” This is the … Read more
Open Offices? They May Actually Be Damaging Employee Productivity
Compensation and benefits covers a lot of ground. Can we consider it to also, well, literally cover ground? I’m asking this after a recent dinner with … Read more
Good Leaders Need to Have Good Manners, Too
We are at our best with those random acts of kindness to strangers. Co-workers and family members don’t fare so well. The reasons vary: We take them for … Read more
HR Roundtable: How to Handle and Cope With Workplace Behavior
The October HR Roundtable in Cincinnati gathered to discuss a factor of the workplace which is too often overlooked. What is that factor? Behavior. The … Read more
The Keys to Coping With Bully Behavior in the Workplace
The phrase workplace bully holds many meanings and comes in many forms. Just about every office has one – that person who makes life around the office … Read more