My travel time has increased about fifty percent over the same time last year.  My family seems about fifty percent happier.  Anyone see a correlation?  SIGH.
Here’s a fun discussion I read about recently…
In front of a crowd of 300 financial executives in February, a professor of human resources denounced the corporate HR profession for being mostly […]

Surprisingly, not Lima, Ohio although I have been there.
As you are reading this, I’m conducting my two hour employee-hold’em for Human Resource Professionals in Lima, Peru.   So before the quiz, a little about Lima and the struggles they are facing…
Peru’s economy reflects its varied geography - an arid coastal region, the Andes further inland, […]

It’s Wednesday, April 22 and my son and I are headed for Lima, Peru.  We get to fly north from Quito to Panama City, then back south to Lima.  Not sure why, but the last time I flew from Cleveland to Indianapolis I went through Charlotte.  Go figure why the airlines do what they do….
Anyways…
Across […]

As you’re reading this, I’ll be enjoying my sight-seeing day in Quito.  The Old Town - site of churches, government, squares and shopping. The historic old town of Colonial Quito is the jewel in Ecuador’s crown. The city was designated the first UNESCO World Heritage City in 1978 in recognition of the importance of its […]

Happy Monday.  As you read this, I’ll be on my way to Atlanta and then Quito, Ecuador where I’ll be conducting the opening and closing keynote addresses at the country’s first national compensation and benefits conference.  This is the third of six speeches (conferences) I’ll be conducting over the next three months… I’ll be headed […]

Yea, it’s been a couple of days, and as happened often in the past, my Wednesday rant is pushed back a day until Thursday.  Hold it, shouldn’t that be “pushed forward” a day, ’cause pushed back a day would mean I would write it on Tuesday.
Anyways…
Retaining Top Employees in Tough Times
A great title of an […]

It’s raining, gloomy and cold here in Indianapolis.  I don’t particularly feel snarky or sarcastic, so you know there must be something not quite right with me.
Business is good (but could always be better), the family is happy, and Josh (my older son) and I are ready to head to Quito, Ecuador and Lima, Peru […]

I’ve spent a lot of time in the last six  months talking about the results from my organization’s third biennial national benchmark study on Workforce Engagement.  More and more of these discussions have revolved around the concept of ROI (return on investment), and the linkage between employee engagement and customer retention.  As the economy soured, […]

I’ve developed a workshop that a colleague of mine is conducting tomorrow on the importance of human resource business metrics, beyond the classic “time to fill”.  As I wrote in the workshop related to the Time To Fill metric…“however measuring the number of minutes it takes to cook dinner never tells you whether the food […]

Sorry, it’s Monday and I feel like doing a little ranting and raving.  I know I normally keep that for “Rambling Wednesdays (the anagram of which “A Bad Mingled Wryness” comes from), but sometimes I just can’t wait.
Tucked inside an article about the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bonuses written by James Hagerty of the […]