The Indecision About Work From Home
How popular is working from home during the pandemic? See if you can connect the dots through these numbers...
The Very Good News Tucked Inside
The Washington Post recently combined with the University of Maryland to survey on Covid-19 issues and released their results regarding political approval ratings and predictions for when businesses should re-open. At first this looked to me like more of the…
Telling Employees the Truth About COVID-19 Builds Trust
Employees who are still coming to work are rightly fearful and are listening to management’s every word as though it is coming through a megaphone. Today is the day to communicate truths as we know them, both frequently and compassionately.
A Few Silver Linings
This is a hard time to work in HR. Managing the logistics of who works from home, who/how do we pay, learning & applying new legislation on the fly, and helping our organizations make emergency business decisions are all impacting…
If My Career Rested on Just One Relationship, This Is It
Mentor is too weak, too common a word to describe Bob Bowen. I genuinely love the man. Bob was my first boss in my only “real” job, climbing up the HR ranks for a regional banking company. Now long retired,…
Why “Team Leaders” Matter
The organization that leveraged team leaders cut turnover by greater than 30%, while the other company saw much smaller reductions.
Would Bears Get Stay Interviews Right?
The images you see here look fresh off the internet, but they were actually taken last Wednesday in our yard. From inside, of course. We live in the one zip code in Florida most known for its black bear population,…
Tough Issues Training:
Employees might surface an issue that is real to them, and one we cannot find an immediate fix for. Tough issues training is key for leaders to manage expectations.
Accountability: The Top Word
The lesson we have learned is the same one those attendees in Nashville told me, that accountability doesn’t come easy…or naturally in many organizations.
Stay Interviews Can’t Save Everyone, But Who Can They Save?
A recent Forbes article told the sorry story of a manager losing a top employee out of the blue. One of those “everything seemed OK and then he quit” examples every manager has endured. I have to wonder how effectively the manager in our story asked about the employee’s interests and needs.