There’s a really great blog series going on this week at the Women of HR blog. Editor in Chief Lisa Rosendahl asked her contributors to comment on the notion that there are “annoying little lines” (and we’re not talking crow’s feet!) that women face in the workplace. Lisa wants to know: are there different “lines”…
Free E-Book on Employee Engagement
If you haven’t connected with Ben Eubanks yet, you don’t know what you’re missing. Ben’s a Human Resources professional who’s blessed with endless energy, great ideas and best of all—enthusiasm for his profession. He’s started creating monthly e-books (I swear, he must never sleep!) based on a theme that’s relevant to those of us in…
HRM Today blog – The Loss of Social Capital
A while back, Erik Samdahl, Director of Marketing for the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp), asked if I’d like to contribute an article to their blog HRM Today, which of course, I was happy to do. The article is called Flight of the Employee Network and it’s about how the loss of well-connected employees might…
What’s Your Office Politics Pet Peeve?
My blog post Networking Inside the Company Walls, which was part of a blog series onPositive Office Politics, has been on of the most popular posts on The People Equation. As the name of the blog series implies, the focus was on the positive aspects of office politics. (Yes, there are positive aspects. Check out…
Can a Computer Show Altruism?
Super-Smarts without Compassion: A Dangerous Combo I’ve been enjoying the press surrounding this week’s Jeopardy game show match-up of IBM super-computer Watson against two of Jeopardy’s most prodigious players, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. Of course, there have been many accounts of the “man versus machine” angle. My personal favorite came from an interview in…