According to a new survey from Cyber-Ark, most IT staff would steal sensitive company information, including CEO’s passwords and customer details, if they were laid off.  88% of IT administrators admitted that if they were fired, they would take corporate secrets, included CEO passwords, their company’s customer database, research and development plans, financial reports, M&A […]

Just got back from the Indiana SHRM conference…  I gave the Rise-n-Shine speech this morning at 7 am.  Yea, a big-ol’-dose of Drizin is what you need at the crack of dawn.  But the 150 brave souls heard my speech on employee employment and satisfaction and the impact of supervisors as Engagement Agents.  They laughed, […]

Oh boy…
I have tried over the last 14 months to leave my political ideology out of my blogs.  Whether I am from a Red or Blue state doesn’t matter.  Whether I am for Bush, McCain, Obama or Bob Barr has nothing to do with The Four R’s of Workforce Engagement or the hassles I put […]

Good morning from Phoenix, where “it’s a dry heat” is nothing but marketing…
I spent all day yesterday meeting with my colleagues at World at Work, the publisher of my first two books, and a third coming out later this year.  What a great bunch of folks.
I don’t say that because they are my publisher, nor […]

Five chapters done, two more to go.  I hope my friends at World at Work like the theme of my third book Narrowing the Focus while Expanding the Scope.  The premise is simple:  Ensure that top performers receive the majority of the company’s rewards, whether formal, informal, or spot.
Why?
’cause I said so.
Oops, sorry, thought I […]

A recent survey in the U.K. indicated that older workers were more fulfilled and felt more “enabled” than younger workers.  The research, based on a survey of 3,800 people, suggested that people in their thirties expressed the most negative feelings about work.  Of this age group, 58% felt undervalued, 49% felt unfulfilled and 43% said […]

Yesterday I went to the Indiana State Fair with my lovely bride and my soon-to-be-a-licensed-driver-so-get-the-hell-off-the-road-NOW son, Max.    The first Indiana State Fair was in 1852, before the deep fried pickles and deep fried banana foster cheesecake on a stick.  Yes.  I said it.  Deep Fried Bananas Foster Cheesecake on a Stick.
Fried.  Cheesecake.  Stick.  The […]

“a journey or route all the way around a particular place or area”
I feel sympathy for the tens of thousands of current employees
I feel empathy for the shareholders who have seen the company’s stock price drop 85% in the last 12 months
I feel complete apathy for leadership
Yes, tough words, but what else can you say […]

My clients tend to question one particular part of the survey my organization uses when getting feedback from employees on an annual basis.  It’s the “competitive assessment” section, where I ask the company’s employees to compare their “deal” to employees with similar jobs at other organizations.  When I designed the original Workforce Engagement Assessment, I […]

August already, and thoughts of my younger son turn towards just one more week of sleeping late until he begins his Junior year in high school.  Time flies.  And it doesn’t matter if you are having fun or not.
In a Technology Tizzy
Ok, this isn’t important to anyone but me, but I got my new iPhone […]