Building Connections With Your Employees

The retention of talent is an issue many companies are facing. This can be due to overwork, lack of supportive culture, or the growing number of organizations that just seem to “get it” and attract applicants by the hundreds (I’m looking at you,...
Holding Employees Accountable

Holding Employees Accountable

One of the most important traits of a successful manager is his or her ability to hold their employees accountable and to encourage them to regularly maintain their own accountability. In a post over at Easy Small Business HR, the author writes that there are a number...

Leaders Learning From Others

Ben Eubanks of upstartHR recently shared a piece of advice he had received from his former manager. This wisdom? “Become the smartest person in the room by knowing you are not.” Eubanks writes that you become better “by looking for the good in others...
Shared Positive Experiences Enhance Culture

Shared Positive Experiences Enhance Culture

With the Olympics having ended earlier this month, research looking back on the impact of the experience is emerging. And some of this research covers the impact of the games on the workplace. Noted in a People Management article by Michelle Stevens, workplace...

Doing Good Without Getting Punished

From Barran Liebman on August 23, 2012: “After reading the Sixth Circuit’s decision in Kroll v. White Lake Ambulance Authority, Case No. 10-2348 (6th Cir August 22, 2012), I’m reminded of the saying “no good deed goes unpunished.” White...