As a manager, how can I supervise employees at remote locations – particularly when I never see them? If I work remotely, how do I make sure I stay...
From the Note Pad of Nichole McDonald, SPHR I have spent more than 20 years of my working career in the field of human resources management. While the profession...
No one likes getting asked this question and we like answering it even less. When we do answer, there is a tendency for us to immediately think in terms of...
With so many instantaneous ways of communicating information, email almost seems outdated. Strange to think, isn’t it? Email, which is instantaneous in its own right, is one of the...
This is a great and timeless story. You know, the three pigs, each of whom builds a house of different materials, straw, sticks and bricks. And, of course, the...
The term “groupthink” refers to when individual thought submits to the will of a group. This organizational phenomena can start very subtly. Unchecked it will take over the overall...
Add value by using your limited resources the best possible way. All too often we are faced with a lot of data, many customer interactions, long lists of things...
Often we get busy in the day-to-day business of a job that it is easy to overlook red flags that might indicate it is simply time to leave. We...
This is the time of year when I’m especially busy doing one of my favorite things: Talking with CHROs all over the country about their professional resolutions for the...
One of the more sinister group of creatures of the Star Trek genre are The Borg, a race of ruthless, relentless, cybernetic life forms whose sole purpose is domination...