Mastering the Behavioral Interview

Most employers don’t get much practice interviewing potential hires and rely on the historical standby questions that are detailed in every job interview book ever written. However, those managers who are more adept and skilled at interviewing candidates will likely adopt behavioral interviewing to...

August 13th, 2010 | Featured, Hiring, Interviewing, Social Media | Read More

A Manager’s Guide to Social Media Policy

Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook are all terrific ways of marketing a company…but they are also terrific ways to waste time. Social media accounts for approximately 22% of our online time according to the social media examiner. It’s doubtful that all that time is spent after work hours...

July 30th, 2010 | Communications, Employee Satisfaction, Leadership, Management | Read More

Top 5 Hiring Lessons From the Nation’s Best Execs

I’ve collected a number of articles and interviews with some of the country’s most innovative and successful executives to discern exactly how they attract highly talented and energized employees to their organizations that continually fuel their success. There was a lot of overlap and similarity...

July 28th, 2010 | Featured, Hiring, Management | Read More

Could Creativity Save the Economy

In a recent interview on NPR, Washington Post business columnist Steven Pearlstein spoke about how big nonbanking companies have been sitting on huge cash reserves, rather than making capital investments. Pearlstein says CEOs love to blame regulation, but there are a host of reasons companies are...

July 16th, 2010 | Featured, Leadership, Management | Read More

Manufacturing Skills in Short Supply

A recent article in the New York Times captured the current employment turmoil that defines our domestic manufacturing sector. Although a number of companies do have staff openings, they’re discovering it’s very difficult to find candidates with the advanced technical skills that the company...

July 7th, 2010 | Featured, Hiring, Management, Strategy, Training | Read More

5 Ways to Make a Shorter Work Week Work

Sounds like a dream doesn’t it? Every weekend a three day weekend. No hump day. Two Saturday nights! It actually turns out that the dream of a shorter work week isn’t such a dream so much as a debate we are having with ourselves. Experts tell us that the average worker would have...

July 2nd, 2010 | Communications, Employee Satisfaction, Management, Strategy | Read More

E-Mail Rules to Live By

Despite the proliferation of assorted social media platforms and text messaging, the majority of our business communications still takes place using email. Email has the potential to dominate our time and attention if managed improperly, so here are a few email rules to live by that will help make all...

May 6th, 2010 | Communications, Featured, Management | Read More

PowerPoint makes us stupid…

…I didn’t say it. A General in the Marines said it. Gen. James N. Mattis of the Marine Corps, the Joint Forces commander to be exact. He was quoted in a story on the US Military and its use of PowerPoint earlier this week in the New York Times: “PowerPoint makes us stupid,” Gen....

April 29th, 2010 | Communications, Featured, Management | Read More

Internal Meetings Part IV: Someone’s Got To Make a Decision

No one makes decisions anymore. OK, people make hundreds a day, but there is a culture of consensus that has evolved slowly in the background of workplaces. It’s so pervasive in how we work that hardly anyone notices that people in meetings generally don’t disagree or agree. They build...

April 22nd, 2010 | Featured, Leadership, Management | Read More

Internal Meetings Part III: 9 Tips for Better Conference Calls

In today’s global mobile world, people just aren’t around for regular meetings. So often the only way for people working in the same place to actually talk is during a conference calls. Here are some quick tips on making this communication tool effective for internal meetings. 1.) Just...

April 15th, 2010 | Communications, Featured, Management | Read More

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