An Effective Diversity Policy Means Never Having to Say You are Sorry

It hasn’t been a good year for Goodyear.  COVID concerns disrupted operations, second-quarter sales were down 41% from a year ago, and to add insult to...

How to Inspire Serendipity Despite a Remote Workforce

Talking with a friend about the advantages and disadvantages of remote work, I was struck by his observation that what he missed most about working...

Why It Pays to Go Back to Work Now!

While that extra $600 bucks a week in your unemployment check is sweet, you could be mistiming the job market by not jumping back in...

Fishing for Top Talent in the Digital Hiring Pool

With office buildings closed across America and work piling up, the need for experienced remote workers is high.  If you are used to perusing resumes, then...

How to Manage Remote Employees in The New Norm

For some, working away from the office is a new and disorientating phenomenon.  Thrust suddenly into a home work environment can seem as distracting as toiling...

Three Financial Steps That Workers and Small Business Owners Should Take Now to Light the Way Forward

A quote by Richard C. Morais, author of The Hundred-Foot Journey, perfectly sums up the grit and resilience required in these uncertain times of COVID-19:   “There are...

Hitting the Reset Button: Changes in Strategy with your Biggest Asset – People!

As governments figure out how to get people safely back to work, now is the perfect time for idled business owners to hit the reset...

Munchkin Survival Guide: Tips to Get Work Done at Home

Humor is magical and can lighten even the toughest times.  Like trying to work at home with bickering kids!  When one poster in a community forum asked...

Inspiring Acts of Kindness in Uncertain Times

From the Great Depression to 9/11, Americans have united to overcome the nation’s challenges.   Ours is a country of generosity, creativity, and innovation, and it is...

Crisis Leadership: Finding Ways to Cope with Coronavirus

The only certainty about anything today is that coronavirus has created an unholy mess for business owners and workers.  Leaders, unprepared for a pandemic, are forced...

Career Advice: Choose, Don’t Settle

The best advice I ever received from my mentor, a seasoned CEO with decades of corporate storytelling under his belt, was “choose, don’t settle.”  At the...

Is Your Company’s Approach to Sick Leave Pathetic or Empathetic?

Next to death and taxes, nothing is more certain than the spread of cold and flu in American workplaces.  Guilt at leaving workloads with co-workers and...

Hot Topics for HR Managers in 2020

Wishing you a happy, prosperous New Year   ̶  and best wishes with your bedside reading if you are an HR professional!  While this is not a comprehensive...

Effortless Etiquette to Get You Through Your Office Holiday Party

Etiquette is a must-add to your business skills portfolio, especially at office holiday party time.  If you feel a bit stressed by your less-than-formal comportment, take...

Leadership Tip: Cultivate an Attitude of Gratitude

For Dan, the Billing Clerk, who always keeps the coffee brewing, to IT Guy with a ready smile, to your supply chain manager who never...

Ways to Manage Work-Related Anxiety Before It Gets Out of Control!

Most older people who have been in the workplace for a while know about anxiety on the job.  This is not college-style stress: “I know I...

Job-Shopping: Three Ways to Keep Talented Employees From Leaving

The good news for the economy is that lots of people have jobs. And jobs. And jobs.  Mainly younger workers are now job-hopping on average every 2.8 years!  And...

10 Things to Put in Your Desk Before Cold and Flu Season

You may still be basking in the summer sunshine, but as soon as those little germ incubators called children go back to school, it’s time...

Ten Tips to Optimize Your LinkedIn® Profile So Recruiters Can Find You!

What if that perfect job  ̶ you know, the one that launches you to corporate stardom  ̶is out there, but it just can’t find you?    LinkedIn®, the...

July’s Jobs Report Makes Hiring Help More Important Than Ever

If there was ever a time to focus on your recruiting or job-hunting strategies for fall, it’s now! As hiring ramps up and the labor pool...

Vacationing through Mindfulness and Meditation

Are your employees skipping vacation this year, like 25% of their fellow Americans?  Executives may be too busy, and 60% of employees say they can’t afford it...

It’s a Spooky Time: Ghosting in the Workplace

In the dating world, ghosting seems a handy way to facilitate a lucky escape after a cringe-worthy, worst-date ever.  You know you’ve been ghosted when texts go...

Are You Too Old to Work There?

Not hired because you are pregnant?  Not hired because of a disability? Not hired because of your race or sexual orientation? How about not hired because...

Sticky Notes for a Healthy Lifestyle

Have you noticed lately that you aren’t entirely on your game, your attention-span seems sluggish, or you’re burned out by 3 pm?  It could be that...

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