Employees Still Quitting and Companies Still Hiring During Pandemic
There continues to be a lot of action on the job-changing front. The data doesn’t lie
Want to Know the Massive Missing Piece Regarding Supervisory Training?
Choose any one of the hot current supervisory training programs, say Emotional Intelligence or Situational Leadership or Constructive Confrontations, and you’ll find they all hit the wall in practice due to a very easy-to-grasp reason.
Straight Talk for CHROs for Retaining Nurses & Other First-Responders
SHRM and I are collaborating on a new book, aiming to re-direct companies to build entirely new cultures and identify new benefits coming out of the pandemic.
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...
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.