In recognition of International Women’s Day earlier last month, I wanted to talk about how to deal with women at work who seem to want to tear each other down instead of building each other up. Personally, I had the unfortunate experience of working with a woman who was a badass. There was no question that she worked hard, however, she was so passive-aggressive with other women ... Read Full Article
Communication Is Key to Positive Employee Experience
Imagine for a moment that you're a business leader at a midsize firm. Your company is facing stiff competition. The corporate leadership has seen drastic changes. Customers are ambivalent about the products the company sells. And the employees, well, they are struggling to keep pace with the changes and may not even know what the company's big picture vision is, which leads to ... Read Full Article
5 SXSW Trends to Take Home With You
Now that SXSW has wrapped for the year, I thought it would be a good idea to look back at some of the conference's biggest trends and think about which ones would be the most useful to you, me, and us in the long term. Sometimes ideas or gadgets blow up and have a brief moment in the zeitgeist. They may sound exciting when you first hear about them, but they're functionally ... Read Full Article
Will You Have to Insure Employees’ Robot Children?
No, that's not a joke headline. A Spanish scientist, Dr. Sergio Santos, who builds sex robots as his side hustle plans to father children with his sex robot girlfriend. No, that's not a joke either. Dr. Santos says that he could, essentially, build a baby - a young looking humanoid robot with a learning AI that he could "raise" to adulthood with the help of his sex ... Read Full Article
Visibility Is Crucial to Developing Star Employees
Research consistently finds that employees across the generational spectrum believe that one of a manager’s fundamental roles is to support the development of his or her employees. And yet, in most organizations, the level of satisfaction with that development remains relatively low. Leaders—aware of this expectation and, in most cases, wanting to deliver on it—make a ... Read Full Article
The Power of Data: A Workplace Trust Case Study
Do your employees trust you? Do your employees believe you listen to what they have to say? These are critical questions that leadership needs to understand. Workplace Trust Case Study ACME company hired us to study their organizational effectiveness over a two week period. This is a company that is successful in its industry and its leadership team views employees as an ... Read Full Article
Two Stories About Building Trust
Ask and you shall receive! As I continue on the journey to look at building trust at work, I wanted to hear from those I trust for their ideas. So naturally, I turned to Twitter & my #HRTribe (all answers are below the stories). Most of what they said was similar boiling down to 4 main ideas. And honestly, it's all so very simple, but it's not. I'm sure you have a story ... Read Full Article
How to Develop Young Leaders in the Workplace
A company is only as successful as its employees and in order for medium sized and large corporations to thrive they need to establish a team of young leaders who have the passion and enthusiasm to help the corporation grow. These days, more than a quarter of leaders in the workplace are aged between 20 and 34 years old and with the huge number of startup companies being ... Read Full Article