Category: Articles
Startup Strategy: Avoid Death Via Shotgunning/Loss of Focus
Lack of focus can kill your startup in the first year It’s understandable that a small business owner, faced with the need to make a living and put food on the table, may want to use a shotgun approach to…
For Managers and Human Resources Staff: Conducting The Exit Interview
There’s gold to be found when employees leave. Here’s how to mine it. The exit interview is a critical tool for both organization improvement, and management development. If organizations are to improve they need to know why an employee is…
Managers Tend To Ignore Bullying To The Detriment of Their Organizations, and Their Staff
Seven actionable things managers can do when they realize that bullying is going on on their watch A manager needs to bring plain old civility to the area which he controls and bring a peaceful working environment to an otherwise stress filled…
Both Parents And Teachers Make These Five Mistakes When Talking To Each Other
…and it’s the kids that suffer When CNN ran a series of articles about what parents want to say to teachers, and what teachers want to say to parents, thousands of comments ensued, many of them aggressive, and attacking —…
How The Employee Engagement ‘Movement’ Has Failed Both Organizations and Employees
…the diversion of money to support useless employee engagement practices is just one issue. According to estimates by Bersin at Deloitte, companies are spending about three quarters of a billion dollars on attempts to improve “employee engagement, and that number…
Antidotes to Toxic Communication: Ten Prescriptions In A Nutshell
Toxic communication is often below the level of consciousness and can occur without intending Verbal abuse can take several forms. There’s the in your face yelling and swearing that we are all familiar with. Subtle verbal abuse is a bit…
