Work-life balance. Sounds simple enough, right? Whether you’re a student, manager or entrepreneur – or parent or executive –finding the ideal balance between work and lifestyle is something we’re all constantly striving to achieve. For many of us, however, achieving a work-life balance is the equivalent of walking the tightrope: with constant demands from both family and […]
How Companies Are Raising the Bar on Workplace Wellness (Infographic)
The thought of adding an employee-sponsored health program (and increasing company costs) may cause some employers to break out in a sweat. But jumping on the corporate wellness bandwagon has more benefits than just producing fitter employees. According to research published in the Harvard Business Review, employees who think their companies treat them well are more more likely to be innovative […]
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 […]
Biometric Screenings and New Year’s Resolutions
The holidays are here! It is the time of year we look back on the year that was, and look forward to a new beginning. With the New Year, comes New Year’s resolutions. We set expectations for ourselves each year to achieve specific goals. According to Time Magazine, 3 of the top 10 New Year’s […]
What follows after Ulrich’s Business Partner Model?
Enter the HR Entrepreneur The Business Partner model has been around for about 10 years now. It has improved both transactional and transformational HR delivery, but this has not led to improving organisational performance to the satisfaction of many CEOs. This leaves HR with a problem. Are you assuming what is needed? Having attended Dave […]
The temptation of reverse delegation
We’ve all seen situations where managers delegate a task to an employee and then end up doing the work themselves, either because they take the assignment back or allow the employee to give it back.
Employers: don’t fire employees for taking legally prescribed meds
Employers should be familiar with the requirements of ADA, at least to the extent that they don’t do what one employer allegedly did. The EEOC announced that it settled for $750,000 a 2009 ADA case against an employer which apparently never even heard of the ADA.
How to create an injury-free workspace
Every morning I settle into my chair, sit up nice and straight, place my fingers piano-player-perfectly on the keyboard, and start working. By about 3:00 pm my graceful posture has deflated into a slight slouch; by 4:30 pm I’m lucky if my rear end hasn’t fallen off the seat cushion. Mid-afternoon contortions are pretty common […]
Use OKRs to achieve bold goals
Use OKRs to embolden your goals, define how success is measured and achieve execution excellence:
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