About a year ago I was conducting a workshop with a group of leaders on the topic of employee reward and recognition. Group exercises focused on finding ways to...
When it comes to business, two important departments seem to clash in terms of operation and perspective: these are Finance and Human Resources. Finance operates through numbers and profit....
Human resources professionals are highly valued at a business, because of how much information they have at their disposal and how much they need to manage it. For an...
Managers in today’s organizations impact both the business and its people, both short and long term. Our success is determined by what we do and how we do it,...
World Health Organization considers stress the ‘health epidemic of the 21st century’. The modern workplace has added tremendously to the stress, anxiety and depression of the workforce, and it...
People usually define leadership in various different ways, but if there’s something upon which everybody agrees, it’s definitely the fact that a leader should know how to influence. However,...
You win some and you lose some. That is the way of life when it comes to casino chips, bag of chips, and leadership credibility chips. We each work...
In a sea of systems and rules it’s no wonder we find it hard to keep our passion alive for our work as HR aficionados. This is nothing new....
Is it time you pushed the reset button on your job? Thomas Edison did. When a fire in 1914 destroyed his laboratory, the 67-year-old Edison looked up from the...
New Year is around the corner and we have all faced a guilt trip since we never end up acting on our new year's resolutions. If your New Year’s...