In one of her astute blogs, Rosabeth Kanter of Harvard Business School, writes about change and emphasizes the difficulties of what she labels the “miserable middle.” Put it this way, it isn’t change that does you in, it’s the transition from where you are to where you want to get to.

My clients have spoken to me [...]

I recently had a conversation with someone who had completed a survey about benefits for his company. The employee’s mindset surprised me and got me wondering what led to this attitude and what a company needs to do to avoid it.

The attitude was that the survey was simply pacification – a way to make him [...]

A WILD Vision
Here is the first iteration of a WILD 20/20 Vision I see for employee engagement.
To foster a 20% global increase
in employee engagement
by the year 2020.

Can you spell vision, W-I-L-D? A WILD vision is composed of the letters in WILD to guide the formulation and development of the vision. A WILD vision [...]

On one of LinkedIn’s Organization Development groups, a member asked for responses on this question: “How do you determine the most critical priorities for HR? What process do you use to ensure that your team is addressing the issues most critical to organizational success?”

I answered, use the CASE method:

C = Customers – All organizations [...]

On more than one occasion, I’ve had people mention to me that they felt the HR online community was a clique. Apparently there are “cool kids”, you know, the ones who get invited to all the cool parties (conferences) and get all the attention (blog traffic). I’ve also been told that it is really hard [...]

Last week I tweeted out this little gem:

Saw “willing to meet expectations” on a resume. Aim higher people, seriously.

Ah, I do love reading resumes, you’ll never know what nuggets of HR humor you will stumble upon and have to share with the rest of the world. Hell, Not Hired is a whole site dedicated [...]

You could almost set a watch to it: every time I talk about social media for employer branding, someone wants some sort of tactical, useful information that they can use to get started on their efforts.

The nerve!

In all of my presentations, I try to include reasonable steps that companies can take to start exploring employer [...]

I once spent a year (well, I really only made it 8 months) in a cubicle with a Judy-from-Time-Life headset on.  As I’ve mentioned before, I HATED this job.  I worked for a credit card company and my job was to provide exceptional customer service.  Now, I LOVE exceptional customer service.  I really like getting [...]

One of the most basic, and most critical, elements in a successful job search is knowing what you want. Having a clear objective. Yet so many job seekers struggle with this very step in the process.

Why is having an objective so important? Your job search objective is your target. It’s what you are after. Without [...]

Human Resources is going to continue to be impacted greatly by Healthcare Reform.  In a previous post, I provided resources.  This is meant to be a short list of the ways this will affect you and why it might be a good time to ask for a raise.    Here are just some of your job [...]