Work Team Leaders- A Key Ingredient for Successful Employee-Friendly Practices

August 30, 2011

Part Two of a Three-Part Series In this second installment of a discussion with Tracy Brower, Director of Performance Environments for Herman Miller, we explore a key factor that determines the probability of success for a company’s work/life integration policies. The first article in this series was in What is Work/Life Integration?.      JM: [...]

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Executive Guide to Integrated Talent Management

August 25, 2011

True confessions time: even though I’m in the field of talent management, I’ve never been 100% clear on exactly what that term encompasses. Ironic, isn’t it? Some folks in the industry focus on recruiting and hiring practices, others on employee skill development. Now, there’s a book on the market that corrals all the various facets [...]

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A Coaching Dilemma – Results of August Leadership Development Roundtable Challenge

August 24, 2011

The results of the voting for the latest roundtable are now up at Mary Jo Asmus’ blog. Mary Jo offered us a challenge related to the hiring of a business coach: what should the coach do when the person being coached “falls off the [coaching] wagon”? See what fellow roundtable bloggers Art Petty, Dan McCarthy, [...]

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What is Work/Life Integration?

August 23, 2011

Part One of a Three-Part Series   I attended a Workforce Issues panel discussion during which panelist Tracy Brower discussed forces shaping work/life integration. Tracy and I first met when we were colleagues in the Learning Development Group at Herman Miller. Tracy is currently the Director of Performance Environments for Herman Miller. In addition to [...]

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Coaching Dilemma and HR Carnival- August 2011

August 19, 2011

Hello, People Equation readers! While I was away this week enjoying the amazing beauty of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and Mackinac Island, there were two interesting blog happenings related to talent management that I thought you’d like to know about. What Would You Do? First, Mary Jo Asmus posted the August Leadership Development Roundtable Challenge on [...]

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The Mutuality Measuring Stick for Networking

August 12, 2011

Should you network with someone you don’t like? This question was put to me recently. My response was emphatic: “No, of course not!” Here’s why I say this with such conviction. My definition of networking is: The purpose of networking is to connect people who have a mutual interest in developing a professional relationship or assisting one [...]

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What Tomatoes and Radishes Have in Common with Networking

August 10, 2011

My vegetable garden has taught me something about building business relationships: different types of vegetables, like business connections, require different types of care and yield different results. Consider two veggies* in my garden: radishes and tomatoes. Radishes are super-easy to grow. They sprout in a mere 2 – 3 days, are very hardy and are [...]

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Excluding the Unemployed is No Silver Bullet

August 3, 2011

In recent weeks The New York Times, NPR and Slate have covered what I see as a very disturbing trend for job seekers: the practice of stating “only the employed need apply” on job postings. I wrote an op-ed piece about this from a human resources perspective called Unocverting Unemployment Bias on the Women of HR blog. [...]

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Leaders – Keep Your Mind Clear for a Magnetic Personality

July 29, 2011

Whenever there’s a discussion of “what makes a great leader?” invariably the trait of “charisma” surfaces— that special “something” that is appealing and makes people want to follow that leader. I recently read something that helped me think about the ways in which leaders attract people to their cause. The reading comes from an essay1 [...]

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5 Tips for Building Your Superhero Power at Work

July 26, 2011

When we were kids, all it took was donning a beach towel cape and running through the neighborhood to make us feel strong and competent. A simple garment addition and voila! We were superheroes.  Then, we grew up and went to work. At your place of employment, you might be less inclined to feel the superhero [...]

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