I had coffee the other day with a friend who leads a team of technical professionals. When asked “how’s it going?” she slumped slightly and said, “My best technician quit this week. He’d finally had enough.” Good jobs are hard to find in this tough Midwestern economy, so I asked what company he moved to….
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Women of HR – Series on Annoying Little Lines
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…
My Take on “If I Could Change 1 Thing About HR . . .”
About a month ago, Michael Carty, editor for the United Kingdom’s XpertHR Employment Intelligence blog reached out to introduce himself and inquired if I would contribute an article to his blog series “If I Could Change One Thing About HR. . .” I asked if he would consider a contribution that explores training and development….