How To Harness The Power of 'No' If You're A 'Yes' Person At Work
Consider how a "weekend of no" may allow you to make better use of your time
How Airbnb, Axial, & Thumbtack Do Employee Referrals
Over the next few weeks, we’ll be sharing tips and tricks to help you build an employee referral program—or improve your existing one. This is the third post in the…
Is SEO The Secret To Getting More Speaking Gigs?
Don't look for shortcuts like clever SEO to jump-start your speaking career. You need to think long term
Why You Should Wind Up, Not Down, Before You Exit Your Business
If you’re like most owners, you ideally want to grow the business yourself so you can transition to the next generation or sell at a premium. The only thing holding…
Single-Family Offices Are Hiring Hedge Fund And Private Equity Investment Talent
Single-family offices are upgrading their investment capabilities by hiring top talent from hedge funds and private equity funds
How High-End Life Insurance Agents Can Make 2017 A Banner Year
High-end life insurance agents can be extremely successful in 2017 without an estate tax if the effectively restructure their practices
Ride Along As LinkedIn Employees Get Some Tips About Publishing On LinkedIn
On the ski slopes of Park City Mountain, six LinkedIn employees brushed up on some social media best practices. Here's what they learned
4 Ways to Measure the Success of Your HR Programs
Any time you create a program, it’s necessary to measure the results. Even the incredibly informal “Let’s do it and see what happens
Hard Data on Soft Skills – Softfactors Competency Index™
People analytics can measure what was considered unmeasurable before – soft skills. Technology has given us the tools and techniques, and this is what we do at softfactors AG
Is It Time to Ditch the Annual Employee Survey?
We need to double-down on measuring employee engagement. I recently fielded an employee engagement survey for my company; it was the first such assessment we had conducted since 2011