A survey of CEO Challenges and Issues was recently released by Inside Indiana.  The outcomes weren’t all that surprising, I’m used to leaders of organizations Talking the Talk.  For example:

The CEO’s rated Corporate Reputation and Customer Loyalty and Retention as the most important to their company.  Employee Retention and Recruitment came in sixth, tied with […]

…sorry for the delay,not been feelin’ well.  Maybe it was that 100+ degree heat in Scottsdale.  Maybe the lovely September days in Indiana.
…Anyway, back to Scottsdale and a conversation I had with a manager at a mid-sized company.  I think I mentioned that P2 Energy Solutions is in the Oil and Gas industry.  The users […]

First things first.  Whatever the Arizona Chamber of Commerce says, there is just no such thing as a “Dry Heat”.  I’m here in Scottsdale doing a series of employee engagement speeches for one of my corporate speaking clients, P2 Energy Solutions.  They are the same ones who were nice enough to send me to Calgary […]

I was in Keystone, Colorado at the end of last week to give a speech at the bi-annual SHRM Colorado State Conference.  This is the second time in a couple months I have spent time in the mountains, the first up in Alberta Canada.  There is something about the mountains that just seems to make people […]

“Companies penalizing workers with high health risks” was the headline of the article in today’s USA Today.  A small number of companies are charging employees more money for health insurance if they pose special “health risks”, and the number is likely to increase due to recent changes in federal laws.  

“Employers know they have to do […]

For the last three years, one employee voluntarily quit their job every second of every minute of every hour of every day of every month of every year.  Based on national averages, the replacement cost of these voluntary terminations is $9,000 per second. 
If you are an average reader, in the time it took you to […]

First celebrated in 1882, Samuel Gompers, founder and longtime president of the American Federation of Labor said of Labor Day,  “All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man’s prowess over man, of strife and discord for greed and power, of glories achieved by one nation over […]