30 Day Challenge: Be an Awesome Manager
30 day challenges are all over the place these days. Meditation, planking, squats, pushups — you name it and there’s a 30 day challenge for it. Now don’t get me wrong, I think these plans are great. It’s a short enough time span that people feel comfortable joining in, but they’re not overwhelmed by the […]
Why Do You Choose to Lead?
Effective leadership practices and methods may be quantified, and there are many distinct directions in which this quantification might go. Numerous leadership books concentrating on leading by example, leading from behind/above/nearby, leading like [insert famous fictitious character here], leading like Machiavelli would advise, and so on may be found by just perusing the business department […]
Top 10 Signs You Have A Crappy Workplace Culture
“I’ll be your baby, I’ll be your score, I’ll run the gun for you and so much more.” “Tumble 4 Ya” – Culture Club Top 10 Signs You Have A Crappy Workplace Culture It’s Culture Month here at PIC, and as much as I wish it meant we were celebrating Culture Club, it actually means […]
One Percent Leadership…Everyday
What’s Really Important to You? You can tell what’s important to someone by looking at their calendar and in their checkbook. We’ve all been sold the lie of ‘time management’ as a way to improve our productivity. An entire industry has been built around the concept of managing our time to get more out of it, […]
The Future of HR Is Now: How CHROs Can Help CEOs Succeed
It is often considered the role of the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) to support the strategic direction set out by the CEO. In order to do that, the CHRO has to adapt: as the CEO changes course, so does the CHRO. A recent survey of CEOs showed that they are anticipating big changes in how […]
How To Evolve, Advance, and Thrive in HR
It is no secret that today’s Human Resources, or Human Capital, industry made its way onto the scene as The Personnel Department. In a time long before sophisticated networks housed human resources information systems, when employee information was maintained on 3×5 index cards in a file cabinet down the hall, we were signing and cutting […]
