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Seniority or Superiority?

Posted on January 22nd, 2015 | Career Advancement, Corporate Culture, Employee Retention, HR Related, Leadership Matters, Management Concepts, Team Building

For many years a management custom has existed within many private sector companies described as the ‘next in line’ philosophy. This refers to an employee promotion practice primarily based and created by seniority. Pre-2000 I worked [ … ] Read More

Mentoring Matters & Mentoring Works

Posted on January 5th, 2015 | Career Advancement, Corporate Culture, Employee Retention, Goals, Inspiration, Personal Success, Seasonal Content, Self Management

HAPPY NEW YEAR! The subject of my first blog of January 2015 honours National Mentoring Month (NMM). Created in 2002 by the Harvard Business School, the month of January is dedicated to promoting mentoring. Originally aimed [ … ] Read More

The Merge into Next Year

Posted on December 19th, 2014 | Corporate Culture, Employee Retention, Guest Blogger, HR Related, Leadership Matters, News, Team Building

The end (of the year) is near & we are (almost) ready to merge into 2015 The year is almost over and there are many things to reflect back on. Right now I’m focused on a [ … ] Read More

OutLook for 2015 Business

Posted on December 11th, 2014 | Corporate Culture, Employee Retention, Hiring Talent, HR Related, Leadership Matters, Seasonal Content, Team Building, Technology Today, Work - Life Balance

OutLook for 2015 Business It is almost time to embrace ‘next year’ and all that will come our way. Yes, there will always be a couple of obstacles or hurtles to get past BUT at the same time [ … ] Read More

Keys to Successful Virtual Work

Posted on November 27th, 2014 | Corporate Culture, Employee Retention, Guest Blogger, Hiring Talent, HR Related, Management Concepts, Team Building, Work - Life Balance

Virtual work, virtual offices, remote work, telecommuting, telework – whatever term you use – it all means essentially the same thing – employees are working from multiple locations on a permanent or semi-permanent basis and relying [ … ] Read More

Trust is the New Black

Posted on October 16th, 2014 | Corporate Culture, Employee Retention, Guest Blogger, HR Related, Inspiration, Leadership Matters, Team Building

Image: Scott Burnham, Flickr Trust – the Core of Leadership I have some very strong feelings on the subject of trust. Personally, I believe that an organization based on trust is one cultivated with honesty and integrity. [ … ] Read More

Techies Day @ Work

Posted on October 1st, 2014 | Corporate Culture, Employee Retention, HR Related, News, Seasonal Content, Team Building, Technology Today

Celebrate Your Techies this Friday! Since its official launch in 1999, October 3rd has been designated Techies Day @ Work. This special day was co-founded by Techies.com and CNET Networks to publicly recognize and thank all [ … ] Read More

Job Titles vs. Work Environment

Posted on September 12th, 2014 | Corporate Culture, Employee Retention, Guest Blogger, HR Related, Leadership Matters, Management Concepts, News

My two-bits worth on Job Titles vs. Work Environment ….. PLEASE – we have heard enough – no one wants to work with Rock Stars, Ninjas, Gurus, Aces or Warriors! Workforce.com agreed to my reposting their [ … ] Read More

Managing from the Middle

Posted on September 5th, 2014 | Corporate Culture, Employee Retention, Goals, Hiring Talent, HR Related, Leadership Matters, Management Concepts, Team Building

The Middle Makes it Happen In just about everything – life, work, and politics — the middle is extremely complex. Being in the middle of the business can be a difficult place. “Middleness” is particularly challenging when [ … ] Read More