Employee engagement continues to be an issue for organizations. There’s constant conversation about being over-worked and under-paid. We all realize times have been tough but …
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Meeting the Company Standard
In my spare time, I’m teaching a human resources class at a local university and we got into this discussion about graphic rating scales on …
Make It Easy to Buy, Easy to Use
In one of my previous lives, the company I worked for developed a customer service program focused on the idea that the customer experience should …
Talent Ownership
On a recent HR Happy Hour episode, an interesting statement was made about companies owning talent (versus managers.) It got me thinking…who “owns” talent in …
Making Work Fun
Yesterday, I wrote a post about hearing Luis Von Ahn Ph.D. and his thoughts on human computation. Besides talking about using CAPTCHAs to accomplish work, …
Thinking Both/And
I am seldom blown away by a speaker but Luis von Ahn Ph.D., professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, has done it. I …
2009 Encapsulated in a Single Quote
As part of a year-end report, Mary Ellen Slayter at SmartBrief on Workforce asked each member of their advisory board to write a blog post …