It turns out a lot of people lie on their resumes. If you work in HR, recruiting, or some other aspect of talent acquisition, this probably isn’t a surprise. It works like this: you post your open position along…
No Room for Dinosaurs in Today’s World of Work
Setting: A retail establishment, 8:30 a.m. on a weekday. A manager stands before his 15-person team at a morning meeting, displaying a printed document to the group….
Executive Coaching is Not Just for Executives
When you hear “Executive Coaching,” do you imagine two senior leaders in high-backed leather chairs hashing out performance problems from inside a top-floor, corner office…
4 “Bad Manager” Habits that are Easily Fixed
Bad Managers are great! Not for employees or the companies that employ them, but, for those of us tasked with creating web content, they are gold. Google the topic and see for yourself….
Introverts, Extroverts, and the Rest of Us
“Are you an introvert or an extrovert?” That’s the teaser for so many online personality tests, and why not? People like to talk about themselves (especially in quiz form it seems)…
Employee Development Tools on Any Budget
It’s finally here. Tax Day, 2016. Inexorable, ineluctable. Time to feed the beast and render unto Caesar. Or, as Ray Liotta memorably said in Goodfellas… well, we can’t actually write it in a company blog…
“Bad Manager” Greatest Hits
The internet loves lists, and there’s no shortage of “bad manager” lists out there in cyberspace. From Seven Signs You Are a Bad Manager to Seven Signs You Have a Bad Manager…
Does Your Talent Management Strategy Need an Update?
The saying goes, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” But how do you know if it’s broken? On the surface, it might seem like your company’s talent management plan is working…
(On)Boarding the Bullet Train to Job Success
If you’re a business traveler in Japan, a tourist, or simply a railway aficionado, you may be excited about the recent debut of that country’s new high-speed bullet train, the Hokkaido Shinkansen…
Mike Schmidt’s Levelheaded Approach to Emotion in Baseball
With Opening Day of the 2016 Major League Baseball season just a few days away, conversation is already heating up about how players express emotion on the field and the right way to play the game…
