Category Humans
We have almost reach comedic levels of posts on employee engagement, satisfaction, happiness and recognition. I am pretty confident I could bet you a year’s salary that you can’t go two days without seeing at least 5 posts on… Continue Reading →
Today’s post is sort of a “phone in.” A while back I read “The small BIG: Small Changes That Spark Big Influence” by Steve J. Martin, Noah Goldstein, Robert Cialdini. Cialdini is probably considered the father of the psychology of influence… Continue Reading →
Show of hands how many of you actually know your neighbors? If you do know the people who live exactly next door to you, now think about those that live three houses down from you? Do you know them? If… Continue Reading →
I’m going to bet that you are a lot like me. I say that because if you’re reading this blog you probably spend a good amount of time on the Internet. You probably have a LinkedIn profile, a Facebook profile,… Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
I subscribe to a lot of email newsletters. You’re welcome. One that I always look forward to getting is one by Bri Williams who hails from down under and who’s company People Patterns focuses on the psychology/behavioral science side of… Continue Reading →
Employee engagement is down. Employee satisfaction is down. Overall happiness in the US is down (and has been declining since 2005). The number of mind-numbing and scream-laden reality TV shows is up (yet fading – there is good news!). Videos of… Continue Reading →
If you spend any time on the Internet today you know that the best headline always include either a number or some amazing statement like “And you won’t imagine what happened next.” It’s clickbait. Designed to get you click the… Continue Reading →
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 →
“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 →
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 →
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 →
I gave the book “Drive” by Daniel Pink the side-eye when it came out 4 years ago for a variety of reasons. Mostly because it was a little idea well-packaged for mass consumption. The marketing of it was superb and… Continue Reading →
