This past week a member of my husband’s team suffered a devastating loss: his one-year-old daughter died, which sent my husband — his manager — looking … Read more
Cities Outsourcing To Save Money Spells Trouble
We both love, and love to hate, outsourcing. While nobody loves talking to someone on the other side of the world about a technical issue on their laptop, … Read more
New Workplace Survey, Same Old Question: Is it Half Empty or Half Full?
One thing you’ll find if you read a lot of studies or research on workforce trends is this: the positives or negatives you take away from the study depends … Read more
Why it’s Good to Learn from a Bad Boss
Anyone who has spent much time managing knows this to be a management truism you can’t avoid: you learn more from a bad boss than you do from a good one. I … Read more
Four Barriers to Building Talent
By Marc Effron and Miriam Ort Through our corporate and consulting experience, we have identified four talent-building barriers that organizations create … Read more
Weekly Wrap: Firing by Blackberry, Illegal Layoffs, and Dave Ulrich Speaks
I like to use Friday to catch up on things I might have missed during the past week, and if you’re like me, you do, too. That’s why I try to highlight some … Read more
Whatever Happened To The Four-Day Work Week?
If you’re reading this today (on a Friday), you’re probably not on a four-day work week (or you’re just an overachiever who likes to … Read more
Kill the Performance Review and Your Talent Management Strategy Won’t Survive Either
Earlier this week I read John Hollon’s post here at TLNT, “A Persuasive Argument for Getting Rid of Employee Performance Reviews,” with keen … Read more
Ask the HR Pro: Is This Policy Illegal, or Just Plain Stupid?
Welcome to a new feature here at TLNT — “Ask the HR Pro.” Each week, we’ll take a workplace or HR-related question sent to us by a … Read more
When Is a Strategy Not a Strategy?
By Jocelyn R. Davis, Edwin H. Boswell, and Henry M. Frechette, Jr. Even as the business environment has become increasingly complex, many strategies have … Read more
Do You Need to Be Certified to Understand Health Care Reform?
If you say the words “health care reform” to me, I get an instant migraine. I’m not sure what it is: the thousands of pages of … Read more
Salary Increases are Down, But That’s Not Driving Employee Engagement
It was only a couple of weeks ago that the Hay Group weighed in with their forecast on salary increases for 2011 – 3 percent, and slightly better than … Read more
Is Your Employees’ Health Their Own Private Matter?
My health is my affair, right? If I decide to stuff my face, never get off the couch, and chew tobacco until the cows come home, whose business is that but … Read more
Are Your Managers Prepared for the Seismic Shift in the Workplace?
As I paced back and forth, reviewing one last time what I wanted to say for my closing keynote,“The Hidden Gift Your Gen Y Employees Are Offering You,” my … Read more
Best Places To Live And Your Employment Brand
Money Magazine released their 100 Best Places to Live list for 2010 designating the best small cities around the country to live. Many of these small … Read more
George Steinbrenner: Remembering the Ultimate Demanding, Bullying Boss
Today, we should all pause a moment and salute the ultimate demanding, bullying, kick-in-the-rear boss: George Steinbrenner, the owner of the New York … Read more
Health Care Reform: How it Will Impact Your 2011 Benefits Enrollment
The Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Labor, and our new National Prevention Council have been busy! As you and your team develop … Read more
Mega-Merger in HR Consulting World: Aon Acquires Hewitt Associates
Another big shoe dropped today in the world of HR consulting as Aon Corporation announced it was acquiring Hewitt Associates in a nearly $5 billion cash … Read more
A Persuasive Argument for Getting Rid of Employee Performance Reviews
UCLA business professor Samuel Culbert is a man after my own heart. Culbert, to put it mildly, is NOT a fan of employee performance reviews. They should be … Read more
LeBron James? He’s Just a Glimpse at Your Employee of the Future
By now, most of us have come up for air after being submerged in LeBron James fever over the past few days. I, for one, could really care less since I’m … Read more