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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A Coaching Dilemma – Results of August Leadership Development Roundtable Challenge
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,…
What is Work/Life Integration?
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…
Excluding the Unemployed is No Silver Bullet
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….
Sitting Kills. What Your HR Department Can Do About It.
If you sit for most of the day for your job, you’re 54% more likely to die of a heart attack. This statistic appeared in the article The Most Dangerous Thing You’ll Do All Day. Written by Bill Phillips, the Editor of MensHealth.com, the article describes research that points to sitting as a defining factor…