How to Motivate Introverted Salespeople
How to Motivate Introverted Salespeople Yes, I said INTROVERTED Salespeople I’ve never been what you might consider a “natural” salesperson, because I’m not naturally extroverted. I’m a born writer with introverted tendencies who takes great joy in spending countless hours in the solitude of my quiet office with nothing more than my laptop, my pen, […]
Your Mobile Phone is the Best Workplace Flu Prevention
It seems fitting that employee annual benefits renewal happens just as the flu season ramps up. I’d sit the break room fielding employee healthcare questions while my employees would cough, sniffle and hold back their sneezes just long enough to make their benefit changes. That first year in HR I came down with a serious […]
5 Generations: Cooperating Effectively in the Workplace
5 Generations: Cooperating Effectively in the Workplace By 2020, there will be five generations in the workplace. Spanning decades of conflicting morals and ethics, different levels of technology fluency and the battle for career progression, the people function will be faced with the task of generational management. It is likely that the wide range age […]
The Compliance Downside of Big Data in HR
The use of big data in human resources is all the rage today. More and more companies, at least the large ones, are collecting and using employee and prospect data to be able to make determinations about their workforces. Predictions are being made about who would make a good employee or which employee is likely […]
Diversity at Twitter Is About More Than Hiring
Although Twitter Engineering Manager Leslie Miley was let go in the recent round of Twitter layoffs, on Tuesday he published a piece on Medium say that he had been planning to leave the company anyway. With Miley’s departure, Twitter is now without a single black engineer in a leadership role. Only 1% of Twitter’s tech […]
Unequal Pay and Unequal Opportunities: New Data On the Gender Wage Gap
Unequal Pay and Unequal Opportunities A new study by Payscale adds depth to the gender wage gap discussion. Forget the 78 cents on the dollar statistic; it’s 30 years out of date. They peg the current controlled wage gap at 2.7% and the uncontrolled wage gap at 25.6%. So what does that mean? To arrive […]
