Corporate ladder, meet elevator
Corporate ladder, meet elevator
There are two schools of thought when it comes to HR. Traditional Admin and Strategic. This is the Strategic stuff.
Is your manager telling you want to hear or what you need to hear?
Is your manager doing you any favors?
Manager feedback is critical to our careers. If you have heard any of the following in the last month from your manager, don’t assume you are knocking it out of the park and up for a raise.
What we call potential and our managers call potential are two different things. Confirm what potential looks like!
Why the Job Promotion is a mystery
Landing a job promotion isn’t easy. This isn’t surprising because most of us don’t know or understand what we need to demonstrate to our managers.
When was the last time your manager coached you on exactly what it takes to land your next job promotion?
Onboarding, Welcome to the Team
New Hire Onboarding
This past week I went through the onboarding process with a new employee. I got to know this individual well throughout the hiring process and really enjoyed getting to know him so I wasn’t just professionally vested, I was personally vested.
On his first day and throughout the first week,
This team is engaged
Employee engagement
Employee engagement takes many forms. It surprises me how often executives don’t capitalize on the many opportunities to maximize employee engagement available in an office for not much money or effort.
I work for a small tech company that is in growth mode. Consequently, we are doubling our square footage and moving to a new location.
Does your body language say “confidence”?
Gender equality and diversity at the leadership level
A recent blog addressed the topic of gender equality in the workplace. I found fascinating the Economist’s Executive Education Navigator / Economist’s Executive Education Blog fascinating. The article made some great points which I felt compelled to write about based on past experience on this particular topic.
Obligatory HR Trust Fall shot (not my idea of building team trust)
Building team trust
is difficult. Sometimes individuals on our teams don’t seem to want to build a relationship with us as managers. Some folks may have had a bad experience with management in the past and others may look at the job as just a “Jay.Oh.Be”.