It’s been too long, I have much to write, and much to comment on.  But that will wait until tomorrow.
I got something in the mail yesterday to get me out of my birthday doldrums.
attract motivate retain
Music to my eyes.
In small letters on a postcard no-less.
Those three words are an integral part of the title of […]

First off, I can’t believe nobody groaned at me about my Worldwide Pants comment in yesterday’s blog.  Not only was it pertinent to my snarky comments about David Letterman, it also happens to be the name of his entertainment company.  However I found it hilarious.
Anyways…
Two studies showed up on my electronic doorstep today, together they […]

I’m working with a company on determining the ROI of a rather healthy training and development budget in a time when the company (and their competitors) are in a rather dramatic cost-cutting mode.
As a manufacturer in a still growing niche, they aren’t yet feeling the doom-and-gloom many others in manufacturing and in other industries are […]

Ya gotta love anagrams…
I have the “Listen = Silent” one taped to the “legs” of my monitor.  It’s not a strength of mine.  My first “real” manager, Denise Casey once wrote in my performance review “Marc, God gave you two ears and one mouth, use them in that proportion”.  She also told me that I […]

Average training expenditures per employee fell 11 percent in the past year, from $1,202 per learner in 2007 to $1,075 per learner in 2008, according to a report issued Friday, January 23, by research firm Bersin & Associates  The report also showed the U.S. corporate training market shrank from $58.5 billion in 2007 […]

A Training Magazine white paper titled  “$37 Billion: Counting the Cost of Employee Misunderstanding,” employee misunderstandings are defined as actions taken (or not taken) by employees who have misinterpreted, misunderstood company policies, their job functions of company processes, job function, or a combination of the three. The white paper shows that only one in three […]

Grand Junction, Colorado was a lovely setting for the WCHRA conference last week.  I gave the opening keynote address, a three-hour marathon session which covered the financial costs and benefits of workforce engagement and retention, highlights of our 2008-09 Employee Hold’em National Workforce Engagement Benchmark, and of course…  “the game”, now played by over 11,000 […]

Not as catchy as Sleepless in Seattle, however it’s early here, and I’m sleepy, ergo the title. Yes, I wrote “ergo”. Remember I’m a six year latin student, and it’s hard squeezing a dead language into the sentence…
Anyways…
As I wrote last week, I’m starting the next phase of my speaking tour, conducting a […]

YES, another attention grabbing title. And for the tens of tens of you that read my blog on a consistent basis (more consistently than I write it), you have come to expect such witticism from yours truly. Thankyouverymuch.
Sorry, that was the happy pills talking. I think I took extra today.
Anyways…
I’m getting ready […]

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal highlighted an innovative health care initiative by a consortium of businesses.   Designed to improve patient care and satisfaction while at the same time holding or reducing overall medical costs, the program would provide yearly bonuses to doctors of $125 per patient based on improvements in overall care. There’s an […]