Monthly Archives: January 2013

Connecting the Dots

As leaders, we make hundreds of decisions a day.  Some are minor and hold little significance, while others affect the direction of our entire organization.  Luckily, most of us do a good job at identifying decisions by relative impact and … Continue reading

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Assessing Value: Example of a Compensation System

A key element of the rise of human resources as a profession and an organizational partner relates to adding value.  The more we can turn our scarce resources into outcomes of greater value, the more we benefit the organization.  Put … Continue reading

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Making Distant Engagement Work

Most of us have dreamt of working from home at least once in our career.  Being at home would mean dressing comfortably, eating what we want, and avoiding workplace distractions that make even a simple task take hours.  We might … Continue reading

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We Should Not Outsourcing Engagement

The popular as well as business media jumped on a recent story about a man in the US that unbeknownst to his employer outsourced his job to a company in China.  Apparently, the senior level programmer worked for a US … Continue reading

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Mimicking Habits

We all have habits.  The American Journal of Psychology defines a habit as “ [a] fixed way of thinking, willing, or feeling acquired through previous repetition of a mental experience.”  In other words, a habit is a behavior we do … Continue reading

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Is the Talent War a Trait War?

Almost every week an article appears that discusses how most of us trained for jobs that will not exist in the future.  Some estimates indicate that new or “yet to be defined” jobs will make up as much as 80 … Continue reading

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Skeptics and Validation

Most of us have spoken to an employee about expectations, given feedback, or completed a performance evaluation.  The process tends to produce one of three outcomes: ambivalence, anger, or satisfaction.    For the disengaged employee, our comments (regardless of nature) provide … Continue reading

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