Most of my clients understand that their work future and long-term employability is tied to the quality of their expertise.  As a result many continuously work to build that expertise.  Although gaining new opportunities, working in stretch settings and working with cross-disciplinary peers offer fine ways to develop your expertise, those situations don’t always come on [...]

Employers will be impacted

Here is some stuff on how the new appointments to the National Labor Relations Baord,  Craig Becker and Mark Pearce will begin to affect board policy over the next months.

The short version:

The NLRB is now very pro-labor!

The more specific longer version:

Expect to see case decisions and rulemaking that will significantly alter the current [...]

Last week Laurie did a great post on dick moves in the workplace that I think we can all relate to. You spend enough time around different kinds of people, you’re bound to be the perpetrator or recipient of a dick move. Probably both. I know I have. Now, I don’t want to be a [...]

Employee Engagement Linchpin.

Indispensable. Rich Meyer has put together a wonderful slide presentation on linchpins and work.  A linchpin in an organization is someone who is indispensable to the organization. Although Rich called it marketing linchpins the lessons apply very well to employee engagement.

Key points. Rich dedicated the slide presentation to Seth Godin. You can also take a [...]

I read this story today and shook my head.

The headline (More workers choosing fear over flex time, experts say) is designed for clicks. The amount of data supporting this assertion is nonexistent (there is literally not a single statistic cited about the decrease in flex time usage). The issue is presented in the boring way [...]

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Lisa D. Grant Harpe, Ph.D.
Industrial Psychologist and Senior Consultant
Peopleclick Authoria Research Institute

She is the author of:

Social Networks and Employment Law: Are you putting your Organization at Risk?
With the excitement around social networking, it is easy to think of these tools as a natural source of reference during your hiring [...]