… is a feel-good story about the difficulty of attracting and retaining lawyers.  C’mon, it’s the holiday season.  Thanksgiving and all.  Warmth and good wishes and all that stuff. 
OK, one joke.  Who said this?  “A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats”.
Benjamin Franklin.  That’s right.  Now who’s the hater??
 As I was […]

Circuit City Stores is asking some former employees to come back. The employees are part of a group of 3,400 employees fired earlier this year because they were experienced and earned too much money. The employees were replaced with lower-paid workers.
What a hoot.  Can’t have anything to do with Circuit City continuing to lose market […]

I’m thankful I have a family I can care for, and cares for me. 
I’m thankful that I have an opportunity to do what I love to do for a living. 
I’m thankful for the people that have given me the opportunity to do what I love to do for a living.  There are a lot of […]

Sometimes life is good. 
After a 3 hour pre-conference workshop I conducted at the Colorado State SHRM conference this summer I was invited to present my Employee Hold’em seminar in Vail at the Vail Cascade Resort & Spa (a Destination Hotel).  Even better, one company that got an invitation to participate in the Vail seminar wasn’t […]

You know I’m in the process of getting my own health insurance, as COBRA is about over.  Ah the joy.  Perhaps it’s one of the reasons I am talking so much about an entitlement mentality when it comes to insurance for employees.  And, living in Indiana, insurance is a little more expensive than other places.  […]

A recent study found nearly six in ten business leaders do not have an established relationship with human resources or that it would not occur to them to include human resources in implementing workforce plans.
What a hoot.  It would not occur to them to include human resources in implementing workforce plans.  Would it occur to […]

The headline in the USA Today article:  Employer Provider Insurance Continues to Decline.  Happy Tuesday.   You know I talk a lot about this issue, so much I added a category named Health Insurance. 
The percentage of all employers offering health insurance in the past eight years peaked in 2000 at 69% and has fallen steadily since, hitting […]

I had a great breakfast this morning with some really smart folks that help their clients better select talented applicants.  Since that fits in with Recruiting, the “First R of Workforce Engagement”, we were exploring some opportunities to work together, to play off of our strengths.  Plus, I scored a free breakfast, and you know […]

I recently delivered results of the baseline employee engagement survey we conducted to the leadership team of my client.  There was nothing especially  different or unique about this group of men and women.  They were talented senior executives who managed departments, divisions, units, and geographies. 
As we discussed the results of the employee assessment we had […]

The article started “Clarian Health apparently has decided the punitive approach may not be the best way to motivate employees to shape up”.  The VP of Human Resources at Clarian said “focus groups and staff meetings revealed that many workers were so focused on potential increases to their insurance premiums that they could not focus […]