When you talk to people, are you focused on the transaction or your interaction? Think about it. A transactional encounter is one where you’re going through the motions to get the task or the discourse done. Maybe you’re texting, talking on the phone to someone else or just dazed and confused. But the bottom line […]
Read MoreThere’s a term that’s been bantered about that I find rather interesting: “Overcompensating for incompetence.” This is how it works: a person isn’t doing the job, so the boss does it for them. Somehow this term seems like an oxymoron because if the boss was competent, then he/she wouldn’t be overcompensating. They’d be fixing the […]
Read MoreThere’s a lot of “buzz” about attracting, retaining and engaging employees these days. Now that the economy is improving and there’s more movement in the job market, the job seeker has more choices. A recent study reported that 70% of employees are looking for a job. Another study reported that only 40% of employees are […]
Read MoreAs we enter another political season and are subjected to diverse opinions about leadership, imagine what it would be like if there could be agreement about essential elements of leadership… not just political leadership but organizational, volunteer and personal leadership too. There’s probably only one thing that we could all agree on and that is […]
Read MoreHave you ever hired a vendor or supplier and felt like you made a HUGE mistake? Even though you did your due diligence, everything went “south” and you were left scratching your head wondering “how did that happen?” Last year I made a series of vendor selections that ended up in a lot of wasted […]
Read MoreCalifornia and San Francisco employment laws are some of the most complex in the nation. The recent Fair Chance Ordinance that went into effect on August 13 requires employers with more than 20 employees to limit the use of criminal history information and follow certain procedures and restrictions when inquiring about and using conviction history […]
Read MoreWhat motivates people? This is a really great question. Motivated To Leave… It reminds me of a ritual I actually witnessed in my first job upon graduating from college. I was a supervisor for a market research company in Wisconsin. Most of the employees could tell you whether a 12 ounce tube of Colgate sold […]
Read MoreI wanted to write about how to motivate yourself…. but I just couldn’t get motivated to write about that. Not only was I not motivated to write about self-motivation, I wasn’t motivated about much of anything. Have you ever had days or periods of time like that? Things aren’t great and they are bad, either. […]
Read MoreResearch shows that people who predominantly express positive emotions are often physically and emotionally healthier than people who have negative attitudes. Positive emotions would be: love, joy, gratitude, compassion, appreciation… Negative emotions would be: anger, resentment, blame, shame, guilt … Frankly, I don’t think anyone deliberately sets out to be a negative, angry person. But […]
Read MoreSo many companies have a core value or a stated platitude that “our employees are our greatest asset” and yet their head of HR doesn’t have a seat at the strategic leadership table. From my experience, as a VP of Human Resources for several companies and working as an organizational change consultant for organizations for […]
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