Prevent your team from losing focus by understanding how distractions start As managers know, workday distractions are everywhere, stealing your employees’ precious time and productivity. Between new technologies that beg for people’s attention to the prevalence of shortened attention spans, everyone on your team has the opportunity to be more distracted today than in the past. Of course, being distracted …
Five steps to defining and executing your own brand
Karen Stout, SVP of HR, shares Arbonne’s initiatives to improve employee engagement.
The top five ways enterprise social collaboration can boost organizational productivity.
… But we have to try anyway “People are people,” the old saying goes. That means everyone brings their own personal baggage with them to work. People make poor choices, act rashly and defend their own comfort zones. People have agendas all their own that often have nothing to do with the work agenda that you, as the manager, are …
Finding power in the question, “What will make you stay?” Editor’s Note: We asked some of our featured executives what they thought of the recent finding that 21 percent of full-time workers will be leaving their current position in 2014. Here is John Schierer’s response. Your best talent is always looking for an opportunity, so the survey data is not …
Balancing existing staff with new hires in 2014 Building a successful team of people is one of the most challenging aspects of any business. As the economy continues its march to recovery, companies seek to build their organizations with new people to support new growth. At the same time, recent studies show that many are considering new jobs in the …
One must fail to survive, and thus adapt to failing Let me be perfectly clear: You are going to fail. If you do not, you are not going to survive. Every business owner needs to push the envelope. We need to develop new products, new services, new partnerships and new delivery mechanisms. With innovation comes the harsh reality of failure. …
How Kevin Bacon is changing sales. If you were born in the age of bell bottoms like me, you probably have played at one time or another the old parlor game “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” or “Six Degrees of Separation,” which suggested that any two people on Earth are six or fewer acquaintances apart from each other—from Kevin Bacon, …
Workers citing job dissatisfaction as a reason to look elsewhere A new year brings new changes. For many workers across the country, that may mean a change in company. Our friends at CareerBuilder recently sent us a survey showing that 21 percent of full-time employees are looking to change jobs in 2014. Of those full-time workers, 59 percent say they …
The author of “Brand Aid” offers three steps toward building your more-important-than-ever individual brand. The market demands authentic brands. Consumers, employers and vertical connections now rely on word of mouth, social groups, recommendations and strong connections above all else. It is with that, plus extensive research for “Brand Aid,” that I can confidently state: The individual is now more important …
It’s that time of year again. As the holiday season fades into the New Year, the national discourse migrates from gifts and goodwill to calories and cardio. Instead of Santa’s sleigh in the sky, we look for magic numbers on the scale. Instead of celebrating old friends, many of us embark on quests for a “new you.” This time of …
These 5 tips will help CMOs overcome tech skepticism in the C-Suite.
What’s the difference between an HR practitioner and an HR leader? Our expert has identified 12 traits, and here are two.
Kerry Chandler explains why human resources is one of the NBA’s most valuable players.
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