Occasionally I’m witness to an interesting phenomenon when gatherings of HR professionals play a round of “HR Solar System.” This game is also known as “I’m in HR and I think the planets revolve around me.” I recall a workshop I
Join Me: Drivers of Engagement in New Hire Onboarding
We discuss employee engagement a lot don’t we? We realize there are benefits to our organizations when we have a highly engaged workforce; things like improved performance, higher productivity, and improved retention. Across the continuum of the employee life cycle
The Aftermath #50ShadesofHR
MEMORANDUM February 16, 2015 TO: All Employees FROM: Janet Jones, Director of Human Resources RE: Inappropriate Workplace Conversations
How To Build Your HR Empire
Recently, I was doing some reading about internal barriers in organizations created by fear. In Tom Rieger’s Breaking the Fear Barrier he points out these barriers take three forms: parochialism, territorialism, and empire building. As he states: “Parochial managers do not
