Make More! is Mindless Factory Work for Your Thumbs
Gamification, the application of game elements to non-game tasks and activities has spread from marketing trend, to education, to our daily lives at home and at work. App developers have made a game of learning, getting healthy, answering our emails and even watering our plants. Gamification is everywhere — including HR. So why not look at […]
Sustainability and How to Get Creative with Your Workplace Wellness Program
I’m working with a cool HR tech startup currently in beta that focuses on workplace wellness and sustainability. If you are interested in learning more, please leave a comment or email me at jessica(at)blogging4jobs(dot)com. Having successfully survived and navigated your company’s annual benefits enrollment process, I know you as an HR and business leader, deserve […]
5 Benefits of Promoting Employee Participation
Increasing employee participation is a big challenge faced many managers and human resource professionals. After all, feedback and suggestions are essential aspects of making useful changes that benefit all participants. However, sometimes it can seem as though encouraging employees to get involved beyond doing their job is like pulling teeth. Oftentimes it isn’t that employees are […]
Creative Genius Employees Are a Leader’s Worst Nightmare But Drive Amazing Business Results
In the war for talent, adding creatives to your teams can provide you with a competitive advantage. Creatives can be game changers. They are organizational linchpins, unicorns and the purple squirrels of not just your business but possibly the entire industry. They have special skills and abilities that make them unique. And maybe just maybe you’ve […]
Five Ways to Use Snapchat Spectacles Around Your Workplace
A week before the Thanksgiving holiday, it was 7:00 AM and I was in my car making the trip to Dallas from my home in Oklahoma City. It’s a three hour trip one way. I was in route to a meeting when I got a frantic text from my friend asking how far I was […]
Facebook Lies. No One Has a Perfect Life
It’s with a tightness in my chest filled with anxiety, I tell you that I’m lost. I feel uneasy, confused and uncomfortable. Maybe you can relate to these feelings I’m sharing more than you care to admit. These moments come at weird random times and intervals I can’t often predict. The voice inside my head […]
