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The Stealing Has Started – Employers Beware!

The Stealing Has Started – Employers Beware!

I have commented in past entries that as economic recovery proceeds, the new jobs are going to go to those already employed.

It’s also a Read More

[Podcast] Daniel Pink on Motivation: How to Inspire Employees to Perform

[Podcast] Daniel Pink on Motivation: How to Inspire Employees to Perform

Daniel is a New York Times best-selling author, a former White House speechwriter and a featured keynote speaker in the upcoming ThinkBIG:Vistage 2013 International Member Read More

Healthcare Accountability: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Healthcare Accountability: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

In one of my past articles, I showed why we need to make employees more accountable for their health costs — now the third Read More

CEOs Need to Resolve This Healthcare Conflict of Interest

CEOs Need to Resolve This Healthcare Conflict of Interest

At the risk of ruffling a few feathers in my own supply chain (yikes!), I think it’s time to finally talk honestly about one of Read More

Employment Law: Hire the Best, Fire the Rest, and Stay Out of Court

Employment Law: Hire the Best, Fire the Rest, and Stay Out of Court

Prior to the National Labor Relations Act in 1935, business owners in the U.S. were accustomed to very little governance in how they treated employees. Read More

Discrimination Against The Obese Includes Diverse Issues

Discrimination Against The Obese Includes Diverse Issues

On the news recently there was a discussion about a hospital somewhere that established a policy that they would not hire anyone who applied for Read More

Where’s the Accountability in Health Care?

Where’s the Accountability in Health Care?

It’s time to go to the heart of the problem — too many Americans are obese and the result is far greater claims costs for Read More

Hiring Mistake #7 – Fishing in Shallow Waters

Hiring Mistake #7 – Fishing in Shallow Waters

Most of the methods used to attract candidates bring forth candidates who are floating in the shallow end of the pond. They fall into what Read More

Options to Consider in Choosing Health Benefits Packages for Small Businesses

Options to Consider in Choosing Health Benefits Packages for Small Businesses

Small businesses have faced a complicated pricing structure in selecting health benefit plans for their employees in the wake of the passage of the 2010 Read More

Are You Engaged In Your Work?

Are You Engaged In Your Work?

When it comes to the bigger picture of your job, the important question in today’s work environment is simple: are you engaged? Whether you are Read More

3 Human Resources Trends Driving Innovation

3 Human Resources Trends Driving Innovation

What are the hottest topics in human resources these days? That question was answered for us recently when we attended the 2012 HCI Human Capital Read More

The High Performance Business – More than Running Lean and Mean

The High Performance Business – More than Running Lean and Mean

Look around your workplace. It may appear that everyone is busy; there’s activity, no one’s hanging out socializing, no one appears to be deep into Read More

Hiring Mistake #6: Performance Bias

Hiring Mistake #6: Performance Bias

Hiring Mistake #6 is Performance Bias, which is the tendency to become enamored with how the candidate “performs” or “presents” during the interview.

Have you Read More

Safety and Protection at Work: Big Brother is Watching

Safety and Protection at Work: Big Brother is Watching

As the details come out about tragedies like the Ohio high school shooting or February’s tragic incident in Washington, DC, where an employee shot and Read More

On Boarding Can Mean More To Company Than New Hire

On Boarding Can Mean More To Company Than New Hire

“On Boarding” is the structured way a company brings newly hired employees into their “fold.”

Many organizations have orientations meant to orient newly hired employees. Read More

Sweat Equity Compensation: The Great Talent Acquisition Equalizer

Sweat Equity Compensation: The Great Talent Acquisition Equalizer

Great talent makes the difference

If you can remember back to your old grade school days, employee talent today is often described with the term Read More

Incidents that occur outside the workplace- don’t underreact

Incidents that occur outside the workplace- don’t underreact

Several clients of mine had nasty incidents occur with their employees after work hours and contacted me to discuss their options. My hope is that Read More

How To Avoid Sexual Harassment Liabilities

How To Avoid Sexual Harassment Liabilities

There are several steps that should be taken to prevent sexual harassment within an organization. In fact, an organization can nearly make itself “judgment proof” Read More

Are Your Employees At The Risk Of Being Poached?

Are Your Employees At The Risk Of Being Poached?

I sure hope so.  If your answer is no, then I might ask if it’s because your employees are not worth poaching.  If you have Read More

Hiring Mistake #3: Inappropriate Prerequisites

Hiring Mistake #3: Inappropriate Prerequisites

Hiring top talent is not the same as ordering through the drive-through line at your favorite fast food restaurant.

In many companies, the hiring process Read More

Your job is like a Stradivarius

Your job is like a Stradivarius

I have spoken to many employees who have taken their positions for granted. And not surprisingly, they have taken their employers for granted, too.

This Read More

Keeping employees: it’s more important now than you might think

Keeping employees: it’s more important now than you might think

There is a Gallagher Organization statistic which reports that more than 60 percent of current employees are planning to leave their positions as soon as Read More

Right People in the Right Jobs

Right People in the Right Jobs

Over the last 27 years, I have spent the majority of my professional life as a serial entrepreneur. I have been a long time member Read More

Hiring Failure: Hiring Mistake #2 – Superficial Interviewing

Hiring Failure: Hiring Mistake #2 – Superficial Interviewing

Next to not defining success, which I covered in my last blog post, superficial interviewing is the second most common mistake made in the hiring Read More

Why Hiring Fails: Hiring Mistake #1: Inadequate Job Descriptions

Why Hiring Fails: Hiring Mistake #1: Inadequate Job Descriptions

In one of my last blog posts, I mentioned that I would take the Study we did within the Vistage/TEC Community on Hiring Failure before Read More