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Culture, Teams and the US Navy SEALS

Posted on July 23rd, 2015 | Corporate Culture, Employee Retention, Goals, Hiring Talent, HR Related, Inspiration, Leadership Matters, Seasonal Content, Team Building

The Navy SEALS is all about WE Recently I’ve been reading and thinking about how certain structured groups relate to successful business models. In particular, I was considering the ME culture that exist in some organizations [ … ] Read More

Job Hopping – Strategic or Problematic?

Posted on July 16th, 2015 | Career Advancement, Employee Retention, Goals, Hiring Talent, HR Related, Personal Success, Self Management, Work - Life Balance

Job Hopping – What does it mean in today’s business world? Job hopping is a term that means different things to different people. Why? Because it can depend on industry, situation, generation and/or decade. Generically, most people [ … ] Read More

Sacred Cow Disease

Posted on July 3rd, 2015 | Career Advancement, Corporate Culture, HR Related, Leadership Matters, Management Concepts, Personal Success, Self Management, Team Building

What is a sacred cow? “Sacred cow” is an idiom based on the understanding of how highly regarded cows are in Hindu culture. In Western culture the “metaphorical” sacred cow may be individuals, institution organization, business [ … ] Read More

Keeping up with – The Employee

Posted on June 18th, 2015 | Corporate Culture, Employee Retention, Hiring Talent, HR Related, Leadership Matters, Work - Life Balance

We are not in Kansas anymore. Here today……. Gone tomorrow……. Employee turnover is on the rise and it is a very significant challenge for business. Even more so during this candidate driven market. Should your company be concerned about defecting [ … ] Read More

Talent Shortage – Talking Points

Posted on June 12th, 2015 | Career Advancement, Corporate Culture, Employee Retention, Hiring Talent, HR Related, Team Building, Work - Life Balance

As Jimmy Fallon would say – this is what everyone’s talking about……. in this case it is the talent shortage. Is this the same thing as what was once called ‘The War on Talent’? Not exactly. IMHO – [ … ] Read More

Culture of Innovation

Posted on May 28th, 2015 | Career Advancement, Corporate Culture, Employee Retention, Goals, HR Related, Inspiration, Leadership Matters, Team Building

Create | Innovate | Grow Corporate culture is a commonly used term that often means different things to different people. In some cases it may be considered as nothing more than a buzz word. Make no mistake, [ … ] Read More

Soft Skills are Hard Necessities

Posted on May 7th, 2015 | Career Advancement, Corporate Culture, Employee Retention, Goals, Hiring Talent, HR Related, Inspiration, Personal Success, Self Management, Team Building

People underperform because they lack soft skills. Regardless of profession, industry or niche, every role occupied by every person requires two very broad categories of skills – hard skills and soft skills. Technical skills and Non-technical skills. [ … ] Read More

All about that Base (Hard & Soft Skills Mix)

Posted on April 23rd, 2015 | Career Advancement, Goals, Hiring Talent, HR Related, Self Management, Team Building

The Right Mix of Soft Skills + Hard Skills One of the biggest challenges facing companies today is the skills gap. Is this gap limited to a short supply of technical skills? Accounting? Law? Technology? [ … ] Read More

Administrative Professionals Keep Us Powered

Posted on April 17th, 2015 | Corporate Culture, Employee Retention, HR Related, Inspiration, Leadership Matters, Management Concepts, Seasonal Content, Team Building

Wednesday, April 22nd is Administrative Professionals Day and it falls in the middle of a full week of celebration. Administrative Professionals are some of the most highly valued employees in every company – they are often the glue [ … ] Read More

Micromanagement IS Mismanagement

Posted on April 9th, 2015 | Corporate Culture, Employee Retention, HR Related, Inspiration, Leadership Matters, Management Concepts, Self Management, Team Building

The ‘not so subtle’ Art of Micromanagement Micromanagement is a very unfortunate style of management. Micromanagers (less diplomatically referred to as control-freaks) suffocate their people with continual hovering, closely monitoring, getting overly involved, paying excessive attention [ … ] Read More