Dwane Lay who blogs at Lean HR is hosting a unique HR Carnival this week. He’s asked all carnival contributors to write a post with the same title: “Safe at Home.” We’re to write about what that title means to us personally and publish it today. The carnival featuring all submissions with this title will…
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Office Politics CAN Be Positive
Later this week I’ll be speaking with the Grand Rapids Area Professionals for Excellence on the topic of Office Politics. It’s sure to be a lively event, as nearly everyone I encounter with has a story about colleagues maneuvering in some Machiavellian way to gain power, recognition or some form of “currency”. We love to…
25 More Leadership Development Resources
This time last year, I published a post called 25 Free Leadership Development Resources, which turned out to be The People Equation’s most-read post of 2010. Clearly, there’s an interest in free stuff to help develop one’s leadership skills. With that in mind, I went searching again for “free” resources. I’m delighted to present you…
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”…
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…