Archives for TLNT - Page 143
Your Training Presentations Are 95% Bull
“Class, anyone?… Anyone?… Anyone?…”
How to Give Negative Feedback In a Positive Way
Often I’ll have managers express reluctance to give performance improvement feedback to an employee who is either a great performer in general or an employee who did something well, but…
4 Reasons Change Is Becoming More Complex
We are living in the new age of wonder where astute questions put us on the path of fascinating possibilities through the allure of utopian manifestations coupled with the sinister…
Workers Expect Employers to Take a Stand
One of the more striking images from the NFL protests Sunday was of owners standing arm in arm with their players during the national anthem. The optics of millionaire and…
Managers Are Hoarding Talent: A Hidden Problem That’s Likely Hurting Your Firm
Expediting the transfer of employees among diverse business units allows a firm to develop and retain employees, while simultaneously increasing the cross-pollenization of ideas and the transfer of best practices.…
How to Get the Most From Your Seasonal Hires
With the holiday season fast approaching, retailers, shippers, warehousing companies and others are busy hiring hundreds of thousands of seasonal workers. Last year, companies that shared their hiring plans brought…
Are Your Hiring Managers Making Promises They Can’t Keep?
Let’s be honest, HR is supposed to prevent hard-to-control managers from saying stupid things in interviews. We all know what is happening: the manager wants to entice the prospective employee…
5 Tips to Getting the Most From a Leadership Coach
Working with an executive coach can have a huge payoff for leaders as they develop, improve their skills and stretch in new areas. Like anything in life, coaching is as…
Americans Are Working Longer, But at Least Some of That Is at Home
At the end of June the
Fail a Drug Test and Keep Your Job? It Could Happen
Remember that scene in Animal House, the one where Donald Sutherland is sitting around with Katy and some of the Deltas, smoking pot and discussing solar systems and atoms on the…