August 9th, 2010 at 7:00 am » Comments (0)

Right Management, in a recent newsletter, The Shrinking Talent Pool, laid out four pieces of data that managers would do well to take note of: (late 2009) 60% of employees planned ...more »

May 27th, 2010 at 7:00 am » Comments (0)

The final finding from the TowersWatson survey on which I want to shine a light has to do with treating each employee individually with respect to the constellation of attitudes, ...more »

May 24th, 2010 at 7:00 am » Comments (0)

One of the themes that emerge from TowersWatson's latest survey is around Self-Reliance. Three quarters of respondents agreed that they are ultimately responsible for their financial and career security. This is ...more »

May 20th, 2010 at 7:00 am » Comments (0)

It's that time of year again when TowersWatson (formerly TowersPerrin) publishes its always informative Global Workforce Study. The 2010 report, conducted between November/09 and January/10, covered 20,000 full time employees ...more »

May 17th, 2010 at 5:54 pm » Comments (2)

A rich debate blossomed overnight in a long string of comments to a recent blog post by CV Harquail where she lays out "three reasons why employee engagement is a ...more »

May 13th, 2010 at 7:00 am » Comments (0)

Over the last 18 months you've tried hard to keep as many of your people on the payroll as you could. Perhaps those who were retained felt a measure of ...more »

March 22nd, 2010 at 7:00 am » Comments (0)

A recent issue of Workforce Week shares the results of a nuanced piece of data on performance feedback, from the Gallup organization. They surveyed 1000 US employees, placing them into ...more »

March 11th, 2010 at 7:00 am » Comments (0)

I began my career in the airline industry. I hit a spell when I was languishing in an uninspiring job, wasn't growing, and truth-be-told, wasn't trying very hard to change ...more »

March 4th, 2010 at 7:00 am » Comments (0)

It's notoriously hard to motivate people who work in repetitive or routine administrative or blue collar jobs. Adam Grant, management professor at the Wharton School of Business, however, has done ...more »

February 11th, 2010 at 3:05 pm » Comments (0)

A professional speaker colleague of mine, Sam Geist, talks about the most important three feet for a sales person–that three foot distance lying between you and your customer. He even ...more »