I love Wednesday’s.  For those of you that didn’t read last Wednesday’s entry, the title of this blog is an anagram for “Rambling Wednesdays”.  So, time for me to ramble.
 The Stress of Stress
According to a recent study, only about 5% of employers are combating work-related stress, focusing on work-life balance issues or employee safety, not on […]

In the most current Fortune Best Company issue, the editors provide some “linkage” information explaining the relationship between happy employees and business success.
There were numerous “blue ribbon” companies who showed up on several annual lists with two organizations showing up on seven “best of” lists:  P&G and Microsoft.  Each company was on the Fortune and Global […]

Boy, I need a pithy title for my Wednesday blog.  Rambling Wednesdays just doesn’t have any fun to it.  Hold on, I’ll be right back.
How ’bout this?  A Bad Mingled Wryness.  I got it from an anagram website.  Just plugged in the title of this blog, and out it popped out.  There were a lot […]

I’m speaking tomorrow to the local chapter of IABC, the International Association of Business Communicators.  My speech is titled Why Communication Doesn’t Matter if…
The speech starts by going over the “5 Questions”: 

you don’t know what workforce engagement means
you don’t know why workforce engagement impacts employee behaviors and actions
you don’t know where communication impacts employee satisfaction […]

It’s interesting to learn what gets the attention of senior executives in an organization. 
The more I think I know, the more I realize how much more I have to learn. 
Wow.  That was deep.  Reread that last line.  That’s why I have a blog. 
Anyway…
One of the issues I constantly deal with is how to engage senior […]

Your most tenured employees are vital to the success of your organization.  They usually know the most about your products, services, and customers.  They are holders of the intellectual property of your company.  Although your customers buy products and services from your company, they form relationships with your people.
According to my company’s last national benchmark […]

I’ve decided to make my Wednesday post my “ramblings” day.  And away we go…
Schedule Your Heart Attacks for Better Outcomes
Studies have found that patients treated at hospitals on weekends have inferior outcomes when compared with those receiving care on weekdays.  In one of the largest studies, published last year in The New England Journal of Medicine, […]

There are interesting correlations between recruiting a good candidate to fill an open position and what is going on in the  race for the presidential nomination of the Democratic party.  Without going into my own conservative or liberal leanings, remember that I am a political science major, so I LOVE THIS STUFF.  Big time.
We’ve got […]

It’s hard to understand how out of whack some things are.   But they make great fodder for me!
Fannie Mae I Go Out And Play?
Fannie Mae, the largest U.S. buyer and guarantor of home mortgages, lost $1.4 billion in the third quarter of 2007 due to the housing slump and craziness in the mortgage market. The quasi-government […]

The new Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For list just came out.  In case you are wondering, it’s the February 4, 2008 edition.  As a geeky researcher I love to put numbers together, take them apart, and then put them together another way.  As I continue to review the list, there was one metric […]