Please forget the company-branded swag and wellness-week photo op. Please. Employee well-being has nothing to do with hoodies with the company logo and lunch on Fridays. Rather, employee well-being is the lived experience of work: how work is designed, how
RecFest Lessons: Practical Ways to Modernize Hiring
While swinging through Nashville last week at RecFest, I scribbled a few notes as I went. What follows (below) are the bits that stuck once the music faded and my feet stopped hurting. Revolutionary? Busting the lid off TA via
Workplace Weather: Spotting Culture Shifts
You can feel a culture change at work before you can chart it. The air gets heavy. The jokes at the all-hands meeting don’t quite land, decisions stretch like taffy at the State Fair, and the most polite people in
The Kindly Skeptic: HR’s Most Underrated Leadership Trait
I love enthusiasm. I also love a well-timed pause – the kind that comes from someone with a furrowed brow asking a question like, “Hang on…what are we actually doing here?” That’s the Kindly Skeptic at work: the colleague who
