I´m excited that I may have the opportunity to meet you in person at HR.com´s Employers Of Excellence National Conference 2006.   I´m excited that I may have the opportunity to meet you in person at HR.com´s Employers... more...

Last spring, I attended a presentation by Dr. Linda Duxbury, one of the leading experts on generations in the workplace and workplace health. She is a professor with Carleton University and has delivered over 200 talks to private and public sector wo... more...

Dominic, visibly shaken, entered my office.  He had called in a panic earlier.  He was a big man with a slight Eastern European accent, a brilliant scientist who was now tasked with supervising other scientists on his team.  He called ... more...

Executive Opportunity Gets Even Better   Private equity fundraising reached record levels in the second quarter of 2006 according to the National Venture Capital Association and Thomson Financial. The 11.2 billion raised is the highest leve... more...

Monday´s Wall Street Journal contained an article on Worker Performance Reviews. The article highlights how Whirlpool Corp. has streamlined the performance review process, including establishing a requirement that managers and workers meet at ... more...

Have you ever noticed how much rhetoric exists on company websites? I, for one, have had enough. Let's start getting real about what we solutions we are very good at delivering and which clients we're targeting. It would save us all alot of wasted ti... more...

In April of this year, Karen Elmirst, our Senior Leadership Analyst spoke with Dr. Karen Berman, Founder, President and Co-owner of The Business Literacy Institute. In addition to providing consulting, coaching and speaking on the topic of business ... more...

Understanding Sales - What HR Should Know   Hiring the right sales professional can have a dramatic impact on a company´s performance and culture, and the human resources department can facilitate this by taking the time to digest the ... more...

In order to work faster and more efficiently, we need to use our brainpower to overcome some of our human limitations.  Much like the technology that surround us, we have hardware (our physical brain) and software (our thinking patterns and ways... more...

Responses have been collected and analyzed from the first round of requests for participation in the HR.com Performance Management survey   Responses have been collected and analyzed from the first round of requests for participation in the ... more...