About six months ago, I met Anne Perschel and Marion Chapsal the way in which I meet many business colleagues these days—through social media. Over the past six months we’ve shared stories via email, conducted phone call conversations and commented on each other’s blogs. Several weeks ago, Anne began posting tweets on a “secret project”…
Tasty Salsa and Avoiding Snap Judgments
If you’ve been a People Equation reader from the start, then you know that last year, I taught myself the hot-canning bath method of preserving food and learned a few things along the way. This year, I used the Labor Day weekend to do some late-summer canning. At my request, Mr. People Equation obligingly stopped…
The Culture Convo and Chris Ferdinandi
A few weeks ago, I got an email from Chris Ferdinandi, asking if I’d check out an advance copy of his new e-book, Culture Convo. Chris is an HR Generalist with a learning and development focus for EMC Corporation, a global Fortune 500 company that helps organizations store and manage their digital data. As part…
Using Toys for Childlike Learning
Today I’ve got my Corporate Trainer hat— if you do too, I want to know: Do you use toys in your classroom session? I’ve been bringing what I call Fiddle Toys to my classroom learning sessions for nearly 20 years and they’re always a hit. I find that giving learners something active to do with…
The Z Factor
KNOWING WHEN TO ZIP YOUR LIP IS KEY TO SUCCESS Given that my company’s tag line is “master the people equation”, I’m always on the look-out for clever “equations” that tie to human dynamics. Of course, people are far too complex to be reduced to one “correct” answer like a math equation. Still, it’s fun…