Out Now: Episode 415: Registered Apprenticeship Programs in the Clean Energy Sector With Dr. Janell Hills

“Cash or Credit?” Both, please.

Finding a balance between salary, bonus, recognition and rewards for employees

January means Annual Performance Review time at the job. And Annual Performance Review means I get a raise!! Woo hooo!! This got me thinking about compensation, rewards and recognition as it relates to employee performance. I was mindlessly mulling this over during a lunch by myself when my server came up and asked if I […]

8 Ways to Spruce Up the Office

Tips to liven up any office atmosphere

Many employees can relate to the boredom felt by characters in the “Dilbert” comic strip and “Office Space” movie, but the office doesn’t have to be mind-numbingly dull. Following these simple tips can help you liven up any office atmosphere. 8 Ways to Spruce Up the Office   Bring the outdoors into the office. Some […]

Free Recruiting Model Changes Industry Fuels Economy

Free Recruiting Strategy Model

HCM Abuzz Over Free Recruiting Strategy   While the human capital management industry has been abuzz by the recent acquisitions of Rypple to Salesforce, SuccessFactors to ADP, Jobs2Web to SuccessFactors and most recently VisualCV by Talent Technology, there is a visible shift happening in the world of human resources technology and HCM.  VC firms and […]

4 Tips on How to Use Facebook at Work and Not Get Fired

4 Ways to Avoid Getting Fired for Facebook Use

This post was first published over on SmartBrief’s Social Media blog where I am a regular contributor. They happen to be pretty awesome with over 4 million email subscribers. Be sure to check them out. 4 Ways to Avoid Getting Fired for Facebook Use Social media has arrived and has seeped into every facet of […]

Social Recruiting on Facebook Increases Brain Size

Facebook Makes You Smarter 

New Facebook Changes: Advertising on Facebook Last week Facebook began adding paid ads to user’s feeds which, like all new Facebook changes, caused quite the uproar.  Now, if a user likes a Facebook Page, updates from that page can now be featured as a form of advertising.   These featured stories are now suggestively placed within a Facebook […]

Measure What Matters

How to Measure What Matters

Sometimes blogging serves as a form of therapy for me.  This blog post was one of those times.  I actually wrote this post 24 hours before my mother woke up from her medical coma.   My mom had coded earlier in the weekend and the doctor had told my family in the ER that she would […]