This article was originally posted here and was written by By Rocky Ozaki, Director of People and Culture at Rise People. From a very young age, I knew my calling was to empower, inspire, and generally help as many people as I could. Nurturing babies was more interesting to me than playing with a GI […]
Get Ready To Leverage The Power Of The Millennial Generation
The next decade of leadership for your organization will be on the shoulders of the Millennial generation. Already the majority of today’s workforce, Millennials will make up 75% of the global workforce by 2025! On April 19, 2016 the Millennial Leadership Summit will bring 100s of leaders and experts together to explore core questions around […]
Employee Engagement Summit And Awards Coming To Chicago
The Employee Engagement Awards & Summit 2016 Launched The Employee Engagement Awards (EE Awards) have announced they’ve opened for awards entries. The ceremony in Chicago on June 22, will follow the Employee Engagement Summit – a conference style event in that will provide practical engagement advice from former winners and current Awards finalists – advice […]
People And Culture: Empowering Your Team

“Put aside administration and policy drafting. It’s time to focus on creating company culture, building your employment brand, and engaging your team members.” – The team at rise.xyz What Is A Company Culture? A company culture is an intangible element that surrounds the workspace of a company. It’s an element that can be compared to […]
Could you pitch your hiring strategy – Part I
Every company seems to have a well thought out marketing strategy, but why don’t they have an equally well thought out hiring strategy?
Accreditation: due diligence or straitjacket?
However, it is hard to achieve excellence if a good chunk of the workforce is systematically excluded from consideration on the basis of non-credentialing.
New Rewards Program Set To Rock Employee Recognition
Payback Incentives™, an online employee recognition and sales incentive program originally introduced in 2006, is being re-launched as a do-it-yourself e-gift recognition system that any company can afford to use. Utilizing the 10 years of experience running programs for companies such as Delta Airlines, Volvo Construction Equipment, Leica Geosystems, Neenah Paper and many more, Payback […]
Top HR Technology Trends Of 2015
Can you believe that it is the end of 2015 already!? The past 12 months have been non-stop for the team at HRmarketer as we’ve built and launched our new software tools to help marketing teams engage with the HR space and talent better and faster. As the US economy continues to grow, so too […]
How to shift from blame to learning
When things don’t go well in organizational life, it is ever so easy to react by blaming others. For example, we may have a difficult conversation with a co-worker who seems, again, to dismiss our point of view. We wind up feeling “unheard,” frustrated, and possibly even insulted. We react (inwardly, if not outwardly) by […]
Why incompetent people get hired (and promoted)
This whole issue of incompetence is a problem with perception, and may have little to do with the reality of the situation.