Culture Is How the Work Gets Done
How do you gather the reins when managing culture in an organization, particularly one that is mostly remote? I recently spoke with a culture-building expert who is currently tackling this issue head-on.
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Big No-No: Questioning Employees about Their Retirement Plans
Q We have an employee who is about to turn 65. He has been with the company about 10 years. He is very negative about the organization and has created the same negativity in his two direct reports. In all honesty, we would like him to retire because of the toxic attitude. May we ask […]
‘Passiontivity’ Is Clue to Engagement and Motivation
Assessment Tool for Career Motivation Harrington offers the chart below as a way of assessing career motivation: You’d like to get people to high skill, high motivation jobs. If they are highly motivated with low skill, go for professional development. Low skill and low motivation suggest ending the relationship. Low motivation and high skill is […]
Personality Assessments Don’t Just Help You Hire, They Help You Train
In yesterday’s Advisor, guest columnist Cynthia J. Sax discussed personality assessments and how they can be used to help human resources. Today, Sax explains how these assessments can be helpful not just for hiring but also for employee development.
The Great Career Shift: How Work, Growth, and Success Are Being Redefined
Career development doesn’t look the way it used to. And honestly? That’s not a bad thing. Between automation, shifting values, and changing ideas about success, the old model—climbing the ladder, one rung at a time—just doesn’t fit anymore. Over the next few years, people across industries will be rethinking what growth means, what they want […]
Unions Winning Nearly 80% of Elections, But Fewer Elections are Held
The numbers told the story for unions in 2025—if representation elections were pie, unions claimed a much larger slice of a smaller pie. Here’s what employers need to know. Looking at the Numbers Since January 1, 2025, unions won 79.3% of 1,162 representation elections conducted—a decline from 1,336 representation elections during the same time period […]
How to Ensure the Use of Meeting Minutes
In two previous posts, we discussed why it’s important to use meeting minutes to document what occurs in your meetings, and we discussed the minimum elements that should be incorporated in meeting minutes to achieve the key objectives of the meeting.
What Happened to Employee Engagement? How to Offer Development Opportunities
Offering professional development is more than just a trending topic in the world of recruiting. It’s one of the most influential aspects a company offers. The 2014 Global Workforce Study by Towers Watson found that career advancement opportunities are among the top driving forces for employees, according to over 32,000 respondents.
3 Categories of Predictable Business Failures
We all fail from time to time, but what sets some organizations and individuals apart is how they respond to and learn from those failures.
In ‘Extremely Significant’ Move, Appeals Court Revives Sexual Orientation Suit
A federal appeals court may soon deepen the divide on a question that has recently plagued the courts: whether federal law prohibits employment discrimination based on sexual orientation.