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Employee Engagement is a 2-Way Street
We’ve all seen the studies. Employee engagement is down. Employees are more disengaged than in any time since we banged rocks together to make music. Employees are less satisfied. Employees are...
View ArticleLet’s Talk About The Great Engagement Debate
Big Bird – “Who likes debates?” Seth Meyers – (looking mildly amused/concerned) Big Bird – “de-fishes!” In case you missed it, SNL invited Big Bird to Weekend Update given all the talk about PBS in the...
View ArticleAs You Go
One of the biggest failures of the “candidate experience” dialogue is that the main point is usually lost on folks… treat people humanely. Process, products and/or people will not solve the “problem”...
View ArticleDrowning in Data
Oh yeah, it’s that time of year!!! It’s SURVEY SEASON! (Not to be confused with professional hockey season, which should have started by now….) Actually, it’s “survey results and action planning...
View ArticleYou Voted? Great! So Talk to Me About the Results – Please!
Election Day – it’s done and over with. Maybe your guy won. Maybe your guy didn’t Regardless, we’re all winners because the races are over which means the commercials and robocalls are finally done...
View ArticleVideo Killed the Radio Star: How Collaboration Tools and the BYOD Movement...
Editor’s Note: FOT would like to thank everyone that registered for “Video Killed the Radio Star”. Our FOT Host, Holland Dombeck, had a great time presenting and would like to give a special shout out...
View ArticleTis the Season: 3 Ways You Can Leverage Video Collaboration Tools in Your...
The holidays are right around the corner and the gang at FOT has already caught the giving spirit. That’s why we’re serving up a preview of our November webinar and laying out three ways you can...
View ArticleWords Are For Suckers
Words mean everything and nothing. Actions however, always mean something. Always. We tell people we love them when clearly we don’t. We dole out praise to mediocre employees when we don’t really mean...
View ArticleHR’s Dirty Little Secret – We don’t like to hire Vets
You know what I learned really early in my career in recruiting? Companies really don’t like to hire folks coming out of the military. Yeah, I just said that. That might be the most politically...
View ArticleIntent vs. Impact: Gender Diversity Edition
Excuse me a sec, I need to unwrap myself from around the gender diversity axle. Oof, ouch, @&#!. Okay, there we go. I am a bit confused, befuddled, and wound up about gender diversity in the...
View ArticleI’ve Caught a Case of ‘Newbulshit’
There’s something that I think most employees experience from time to time, that feeling like no one is listening to me! It happens to everyone from the CEO down to the janitor. I’m sure the lower...
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You Don’t Sell Time-Share Property, You Save Lives. The Power of a Good Story.
I just finished watching The Queen of Versailles for the second time…in two days. It’s okay to judge me for my commitment to trashy TV because I’m fully aware that I’m pretty much a reality show...
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What Does “Meaningful Work” Mean?
One of the values of my current employer is “meaningful work”, as in, we provide “meaningful work” opportunities to our employees. As a people manager and leader in the organization, I definitely want...
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What HR Should Be Thinking in 2013
Twisting information meant for one arena to make it fit in another is a favorite pastime of mine. And today’s post is no different. Today – I take information meant for how to view “products” in 2013...
View ArticleSave The CIO’s From Extinction.
A few years ago a Software Development Manger walked into my office, slumped into the beanbag chair across from my desk, and exhaustedly announced that he wished people were computers because then he’d...
View ArticleCulture: A Parable
Once upon a time, there was a professional services firm that was founded to be different from other firms in its industry, aspiring to be radically different, in fact, to the point of redefining the...
View ArticleJust Say NO….
Ok training professionals, it’s time to face the facts: not all problems can be solved by training. Which means, we shouldn’t say “yes” to every training request that comes across our desks. Our role...
View Article5 HR Safe Swear Words
I tend to use swear words. Not all the time – I’m not like some sailor walking around the office dropping ‘F-Bombs’ all the time, but in select instances I will use a word that I don’t allow my kids...
View ArticleCover Letters, Thank You Notes and Mariam Yak
What can we learn from SPAM? Turns out, a lot – about us, about how to and how not to get folks to care about our message, cause, and/or communication. Herewith is what I honestly believe in my heart...
View ArticleWhat Sustains You?
We see the word sustainability a lot today. Mostly focused on environmental issues but I’m seeing it more and more being played out as a “human” issue – meaning what we do to “sustain” ourselves. But...
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