Category Employees

Stop Promoting Functional Experts To Management

Hey – wake up! If you run a business or are responsible for running a division or department of a company listen up. You’re doing it wrong! You keep promoting the people who are good at the “function” of a job into… Continue Reading →

Engagement By Any Other Name Will Smell As Bad

Employee engagement. Employee experience. It’s not culture, its community. There is no culture. Those concepts have been swirling around lately as it relates to how to connect companies and employees. Businesses (or is it just consultants who sell to companies) are… Continue Reading →

Solve the Problem. Don’t Try To Fix It.

Ever try to fix a technology problem and find yourself going down a rabbit hole of google searches, phone calls, texts to friends, questions on Facebook. More and more questions. More and more possible answers. Trying this. Trying that. And… Continue Reading →

It’s People! Performance Reviews Are People!

  If you’ve taken any time to poke around this site you know that I write for other sites/blogs. Fistful of Talent (will have one up next week again) and HRExaminer – to name two. Today I have a post… Continue Reading →

Guest on #HRHappyHour – It’s Not Pretty – Don’t Listen

A few weeks ago Trish McFarlane was looking for help hosting the HRHappyHour podcast because her partner in crime Steve Boese was in China doing some big business. And of course, never wanting to let an opportunity to have an… Continue Reading →

We Are Purposely Making Employee Engagement Hard

Okay this will be a short post today – informed by a post I was putting together for HRexaminer.com and a conversation that I’m having on Facebook right now about what else – employee engagement. It wouldn’t be 2015 if… Continue Reading →

Calling BS on The Experts In Engagement, Motivation and Rewards

“Want to reinforce someone else’s behavior? For learning new behaviors, use the fixed-internal and fixed-ratio schedules. (When it comes to maintaining behaviors, the variable-ratio schedule is most effective.)” What a load of crap! And that was an expert on a… Continue Reading →

Mother Teresa and Engagement

I live in South Carolina. Yes… THAT South Carolina – the one with the whole flag thing. But that isn’t what provided the fodder for this post. I saw an public service message on TV the other day about traffic… Continue Reading →

Are you to blame? New Post on LinkedIn

If you didn’t know it LinkedIn allows people to post their own “blogs” on their site. It is a way to get more people engaged and get more visibility for LinkedIn. It also is an easy way for people to… Continue Reading →

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