Is The Future of Bosses Robots and the Cloud?

Is The Future of Bosses Robots and the Cloud? It doesn’t take much reading to determine that many people think the coming decade or more will be largely populated by independent contractors or solo entrepreneurs. I have written about this before in A Future Focus: A Generation of Entrepreneurs. Technology today however has made it […]

Why You Should be Mentoring Future HR Professionals

This time of year is crazy busy for me. The Fall season is always for me. It’s the start of school and the college semester, and while I don’t have children myself yet or a student my schedule is still tied to the education season. September is not only the start of football, cooler weather, […]

A Bully of a Boss Bears Bad Fruit for the Entire Team

The phrase “People join companies and leave bosses” is as true today as it was 30 years ago with over 50% of  job seekers planning to leave their current job sometime this year doing so because of their boss. Just like with a cold being passed silently from one person to another, the toxic effects of […]

65 Eye Opening Statistics for HR & Recruiting Industry

The HR & Recruiting industry is inudated with research and surveys ranging from social media in the workplace to statistics on turnover. This information comes out pretty routinely and is outdated within 6 months of publication. This information is useful for blogging, workplace programs, decreasing turnover, and giving senior leadership hard statistics on wanting to […]

7 Traits of High Performing Managers

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“Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.” The ability to find strong managers to lead teams appears to be a systemic problem across organizations this year.  Everyone wants to be a manager, but there are only […]

Ambition Should Be Embraced, Not Hidden

I met up with a friend for lunch recently. He wanted to catch up on the happenings in our lives since we hadn’t seen each other in awhile. At some point, the conversation switched to work life. I talked about my observations at my job and the ideas I have for the things I want […]