Archive for April, 2011

I recently read a great blog entry by UK performance coach Joan Henshaw called 4 Ways to Delight Your Employees where she says:

“Most of the business owners and managers I work with genuinely want their employees to be happy at work. Why wouldn’t they? For one thing, happy employees are always far more productive than [...]

Do you know how many job boards there are online? What are you thinking? 20… 40…? 100…? There is an organization called “International Association of Employment Web Sites” and according to them there are more than 40,000 employment sites that serve job seekers, employers and recruiters worldwide. (See for yourself at: [...]

Approximately one-third of employers report that their organizations supplement wages and salaries with cash incentives in the form of individual or team awards, spot bonuses, and similar payments, according to a recent survey of Cash Compensation practices conducted by the HR Daily Advisor.

Long term incentive bonuses were most frequently reported to be paid to employees [...]

My friend and colleague Dan Tobin, author of such books as Feeding Your Leadership Pipeline, is in the process of writing his next book, to be called “What Did You Learn at Work Today?” Dan says the book will provide guidance to employees at all levels on how they should be learning at work every [...]

Managers. Why can’t they just do everything the way you ask them to and the way the policy reads? Wishful thinking. Here are seven deadly managers’ sins that are probably being committed right now, down the hall.

Sin 1. Lust

Sexual harassment continues to be a problem in the workplace. And it’s often worse when it’s a [...]