At Birdland Jazzista Social Club, one minute you can listen to music and groove with a homeless person, and the next minute with a CEO of a new tech start-up.READ»
Trying to fit in to their new workplace environment, new employees engage in "behavior modeling"--social learning where people learn to do what they see or experience in a hands-on way.READ»
Last Friday, while on a weekly conference call, an issue generated enough heat to make one of the participants angry enough to leave the meeting. The meeting then proceeded without him (BTW: unless you are the boss, remember things ...READ»
Employee engagement has become a buzzword with no meaning in some workplace. What some managers really mean, is that they are engaged in theoretical discussions.READ»
Every office is a community, and most are weird little communities. Here are a few things I have learned to sort out the strangeness and up the niceties in the contractor lifecycle.READ»
I'm often asked by senior managers for a list of basic external indicators of how people feel about their organization, and whether or not they are happy at work.READ»
Health tops most New Years resolutions lists: weight loss, exercise, eating better, drinking less alcohol, or quitting smoking. The truth is that only 75% of people maintain resolutions past the first week. By six months, less than half (46%) of people will maintain their resolutions. But don't stop making a plan.READ»
Are your employees thinking about their laundry while they're trying to work? This may sound facetious, but during these uncertain, turbulent times, employees have a lot on their minds that impede their ability to fully focus on work.READ»
