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Post Salary in Job Postings?

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The Opportunity to Create a New Culture in M&A

Another reality of the recovery is continuing mergers and acquisitions, especially on a global scale. As discussed in a recent Workspan magazine cover story: “According to a KPMG study, ‘Eighty-three percent of all mergers and acquisitions [M&As] failed to produce any benefit for the shareholders and over half actually destroyed value.’ Interviews of more than […]

Celebrate Valentine’s Day

A young colleague who is divorcing after a romance and marriage that lasted from high school until her mid-twenties made a statement so profound that I am not sure she realizes how profound it is. She said to me, “He only had one note and, after all of these years, I got tired of listening […]

Ten Best Tips to Deal With Difficult People at Work

Do your coworkers drive you crazy sometimes? We all have coworkers who occasionally, or frequently, drive us up a wall. But, effectively dealing with the difficult behaviors of coworkers heralds your maturity and competence as a valued, contributing employee at work. And, who wouldn’t want to have this powerfully positive reputation? What Coworker Behavior Drives […]

Performance Management Promotes Success

Are you fed up with the return on investment you experience when you subject people to your current performance appraisal process? Are you changing your approach to performance evaluation and review? There is a better way to approach performance appraisal. You can base your performance management system on honest discussion, goal setting and feedback, and […]

Contradictory Employer Actions

In a recent interview with a reporter from a retail magazine, I identified some of the actions that employers take that impede the team building they say they want. The interview has me thinking. Let’s start with commission-based pay. In the retail environment, paying a commission on sales guarantees that employees are competing with each […]

Globoforce/Dan Pink Webinar Available for Download

I greatly enjoyed my time with Dan Pink last week as we led a webinar on “What Drives Motivation and Recognition.” If you missed the webinar, you can request a recording. Below I highlight key points from the webinar. Except where I’ve inserted my comments in italics, consider the below quotations from Dan on his […]

If You Knew You Couldn’t Fail…

“What would you do if you knew you could not fail?” Robert H. Schuller asks a great question and, in one of the top Vancouver Olympic moments of 2010, Shaun White, snowboarding Halfpipe 2006 gold medalist, asked himself the same question. Then, he dug deep inside of himself and performed as if he knew he […]

Trust and Retention

What is the level of trust in your organization? I don’t mean how well management trusts employees to not steal directly or indirectly from the organization. I mean how much the employees trust the organization to do what is right by them. It’s inarguable that the trust relationship has been broken in many organizations during […]

Traditions and Themes

In every company, each employee ought to be able to celebrate and share something that is important to him or her with coworkers. From annual giving opportunities for pet charities to special food treats for celebrations, holidays, and birthdays, an employee share should be met with open arms. Here’s an example. At TechSmith Corporation, an […]