HR Basics – Personnel files gone bad

March 4, 2011

If there’s one thing in the office I will put off doing until it kills me, it’s filing. The only time I willingly file is when I have something on my mind, it’s good work to do when your mind is elsewhere.
I spent most of yesterday doing something similar to filing, personnel file audits. Ugh, [...]

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Life Lessons: Bridges

February 2, 2011

We cross proverbial bridges every day. Small bridges like a random encounter with a customer service rep in a store. Large bridges though, you usually know when you are crossing them. Large bridges are those major changes in your life, job changes for example.
I’m a firm believer that you should not, under any circumstances, burn [...]

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Being yourself

January 21, 2011

Nine times out of ten, I’m myself at work. I’m goofy at home and therefore, I tend toward being goofy at work. That doesn’t mean I’m not professional when the situation warrants. I don’t make bad jokes during a serious meeting with an employee or members of management; but I’m first in line for office [...]

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The disengaged – Bob Theft

January 6, 2011

Let’s talk about your high performing disengaged workforce for a moment.
I’m betting there’s someone at your company that fits this bill; maybe even someone on your team.  Someone feeling a bit overworked and under appreciated.  Someone still working hard to accomplish those business objectives, just not as hard as they were say three months ago.
High [...]

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Be A Storyteller – My Career

January 6, 2011

So Chris Ponder over at xtremehr has a series going called Be A Storyteller.  He’s asking three questions of his readers, twitter followers, peeps and such; the questions are about themselves.
And you know how we love to talk about ourselves
The first question he posted is “Tell me about your career”.
I don’t think I’ve [...]

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