Let’s talk Engagement! The kind that keeps your employee’s emotionally connected with your business, vision and purpose. According to a Gallup October 28, 2011 report by Nikki Blacksmith and Jim Harder 71% of American workers are actively disengaged on the job! As the economy improves these workers are going to be the first to go [...]

As the economy appears to be healing from the Great Recession employees are becoming restless and beginning to think about a new job!  I heard the other day that current employees start getting restless feet and begin thinking about new opportunities within 18 months on the job. In the recruitment world, we are seeing more [...]

As we move into Fall, we will begin to think about our goals for 2012. That might seem like a long way off right now, it will be here quicker than we realize. Why wait until 12-31 to make out your goals; start now. Here is a summary from my good friend, John Spence on [...]

This week I was interviewing a candidate and asked, “can you motivate others”? He quickly, thinking this is the answer I wanted, said an emphatic – YES! I asked again, telling him this is a trick question, and said are you sure? He again said, “absolutely Yes”! ok, maybe I was being a little manipulative [...]

I read a post this week by Christopher Poreda and it is the best recap I’ve seen so far on the lessons learned from Charlie Sheen. Leaders have been showing us since ancient times how to build character, how to act and how we should treat each other. In our fast paced world it is [...]

Do you struggle with making decisions, customers can’t make decisions? If you have been involved with my list over the years you know we talk a lot about personalities and their attributes.  Every personality type has a different way of making decisions.  The very first step in helping clients make decisions is to know how [...]

Right now, more than any other time, it seems the human race is waking up from a very long sleep.  We are now realizing that chaos producing activities are not productive and are rather counter-productive in building relationships. It has long been taught that leading others is a people business.  If you watch how some [...]