Archive for the ‘Employee Satisfaction’ Category

A Manager’s Guide to Social Media Policy

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

5 Ways to Make a Shorter Work Week Work

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

How to Win The Coming War For Talent

How to Win The Coming War For Talent
Current economic problems and high unemployment numbers are distorting many employers’ perception of the overall happiness and satisfaction of their employees. When unemployment is high and uncertainty in the job market reigns supreme, people with jobs tend to hold onto those jobs, even if they’re...
January 28th, 2010 | Employee Satisfaction, Featured, Leadership, Management | Read More

WSJ on Management’s Dirty Secret

WSJ on Management’s Dirty Secret
In Gary Hamel’s Management 2.0 Blog, Hamel recently posted a pretty scathing review of management’s role in engaging employees. The Global Workforce Survey, conducting by Towers Perrin, an HR consultancy, sought to find how workers from all over the world feel about getting up everyday and going...
January 13th, 2010 | Employee Satisfaction, Featured, Leadership, Management | Read More

5 Steps to Conducting a Successful Job Interview

5 Steps to Conducting a Successful Job Interview
Years ago I had an interesting interview experience. It was very early in my career and the guy who was going to hire me asked, “What’s two plus two?” I hesitated, trying to figure out why he had asked. Then, almost in a what kind of idiot do you think I am tone I replied “Four”....
December 15th, 2009 | Employee Satisfaction, Hiring, Management | Read More

The Art of Saying ‘No’

The Art of Saying ‘No’
In her post ‘Staying with No‘, Holly Weeks outlines some essential advice on saying no and sticking with it.   She’s got some good advice, like staying neutral, not backing down, and not giving false hope.  There is an element here that could be expanded on and that’s putting...
November 11th, 2009 | Communications, Employee Satisfaction, Management | Read More