This month over at the LeaderTalk blog, the monthly theme is “A Leader Focuses on Customers” and LeaderTalk author Becky Robinson has asked us to contribute a related blog post. Great customer service starts with the culture a leadership team creates, so it’s a great theme to feature on a leadership blog. Earlier this summer, I…
What’s New In Corporate Culture?
Randstad US, a global provider of HR services, recently commissioned the research firm Ipsos Public Affairs to survey a sampling of employed adults across the United States on their opinions about their company’s culture. You can review the findings here. As part of the research, Randstad used four definitions of company culture as cited in…
Leaders: Maximize Employee Training
“How do we begin to change the culture of expectations in our organizations where instead of being held accountable for participating in learning and development activities, people will be held accountable for applying and using and changing their job performance?” —Robert Brinkerhoff This quote appeared in the August 2010 issue of T+D magazine. Brinkerhoff…
Leadership NOW
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…