What Has Been the Pandemic’s Upside For You?
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
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
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:
Stay Interviews Can’t Save Everyone, But Who Can They Save?
Connecting Thanksgiving, Poverty, and Stopping Absences (2018)
I spent part of Thanksgiving reading about poverty, recognizing the irony when most of us are noting our abundances. My reasons were my natural interest stemming from an undergraduate degree in sociology, along with a specific drill-down on how can…