Future Of Work: Provide opportunities for growth

Job Priorities and Expectations Around the World

The first thing you need to realize whenever anyone discusses a topic like “the future of work” is that said concept varies drastically from A-Place to B-Place in the world. How could someone in an office park in Topeka, Kansas… Continue Reading

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The base-level case for training your employees

Here’s what we do know: the companies that regularly appear on “best places to work” lists have one major thing in common, and that’s training their employees. Here’s what we also know: budgets are tight, margins are slim, and most top dogs… Continue Reading

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Please stop thinking you “don’t have time” for training/teaching others

If you like this post, feel free to share it. Someday I will move the social share buttons to the top, I swear. (It’s good to admit your failings now and again.) If you like some of my thoughts on… Continue Reading

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Onboarding: Hit the ground running = total farce of a concept

Onboarding, Baby! HR!

Love the concept of onboarding (an employee’s first days/weeks/months at a company). Love it. Went to school to learn more about it, that was a waste, and I ended up working in marketing. Oh well. Life happens, I guess. You live and learn. Just… Continue Reading

Companies mostly get it wrong about defining purpose

Purpose at Work

You can’t get to ideas like “purpose” and “engagement” through Excel and project management. Continue Reading

Here’s an incredible stat about lack of leadership training

Leadership Training Gap

I come across posts like this one all the time, that in turn have images like this: In a way, it can all be BS — 42 percent seems like a high number in some respects, but what does that really mean? Isn’t the… Continue Reading

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What if we trained people at work to do multiple things at once?

Train people to multi-task

The whole idea of multi-tasking is basically a myth, even though I’ve worked in dozens of offices where people consistently refer to themselves as doing it all the time. It’s a myth in part because there’s no such real thing… Continue Reading

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If we want to solve the skills gap issue in the U.S., maybe we should turn to reciprocity (like parts of Europe)

“You don’t really know what you get,” she says. “If someone tells you they’re an electrician, they could have just exchanged light bulbs at an amusement park or they could have worked, maybe, at complex problems.” That quote is from… Continue Reading