Happy New Years to one and all…  except to that one person, yea, you know who you are. 
Anyway…  A couple of quotes:
What my years of business experience have taught me is that the key to competitiveness is innovation, and the key to innovation is people.  Taking care of people  therefore, is an essential way of […]

A couple of months ago I wrote about a different way to look at the impact workforce engagement has on the bottom line.
Everyone agrees that happy employees tend to stay with a company longer.  But just ’cause an employee stays with a company longer, it doesn’t mean they are working harder and smarter. 
So, I look […]

Happy Boxing Day!
Did you know that Boxing Day was originally a Middle Ages holiday where the less fortunate received a ” Christmas box” the day after Christmas?  And did you know that employees were included in receiving one of these boxes? 
Running the Circuit, again…                                                                                    OK, remember Circuit City, the company that canned 3,400 of their […]

Here we go again…
Let’s Make A Deal!
Wachovia Securities, in a move to hang on to as many brokers as possible in its merger with A.G. Edwards & Sons, is attempting to woo independent recruiters with a lucrative offer to encourage them to stop picking off Edwards’ reps and moving them to rival broker-dealers.
For certain […]

… maybe it’s an end of the year thing.  I have a lot going on, working on the new websites, putting some marketing plans in place for the new year, getting ready to do the next national benchmark study on workforce engagement, finalizing the second book and beginning work on the next two, etc…
However, I […]

Recruiting is not the same as hiring.  Putting an ad in the local paper, checking for a pulse during an interview, and throwing the newly hired applicant on the floor is hiring.  Recruiting is finding the right talent for the right job at the right time. 
I conducted a two hour corporate training session a couple […]

Two weeks ago, the headlines screamed “Cancer agency to add night jobs as probable carcinogen“.
Here in December, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the cancer arm of the World Health Organization, will add overnight shift work as a probable carcinogen. The American Cancer Society says it will likely follow.
The higher cancer rates don’t prove […]

According to another new study, nearly half of all companies have no formal supervisor training in place.  Worse yet, when there is one in place, no one measures its’ effectiveness.  No wonder “training” is always one of the first thing “axed” when a company is trying to save some cash. 
Employees Quit A Boss, Not A […]

Indianapolis can’t find enough pharmacists.  Due to a myriad of forces, there is way more demand than there is supply.  And now, Medco is building a new distribution center that will put additional pressure on demand through the hiring of 1300 workers, many of them pharmacists.  And these are well paying jobs, the typical salary […]

Sigh. 
I know, I know.  I am really really really really happy companies I talk with are finally getting the point about the importance of understand and improving employee engagement.  Whether these newly minted clients understand the linkage between engagement and retention, are looking to improve a stale employee satisfaction survey, or became enthralled at one […]