HR Pros – Don’t Miss These 10 Opportunities to Build Positive Culture

If you miss these opportunities to build a strong connection between you and your employees, you may not get a second chance. Read on to learn all the ways to meet their needs and promote a long term relationship that protects you from poaching. Read More

HR Pros – Top Ten Things Employees Want from Work

A few years ago I researched what employees really want.  It was preparation for a workplace branding article.  If you don’t have the time or resources to survey your own employees you can use… Read More

HR Pros – Neutralized HR at the Center of the Penn State Incident

When organizations care more about sports and the revenue they bring in, the idea of morality and what’s right can be lost. Child abuse should be reported to community authorities and not kept within internal structures. Read on for more about a final chapter in Penn States child sexual abuse scandal. Read More

HR Pros – Flawed Leaders, Sexual Harassment, and Real Prevention

If your harassment prevention program is about sitting employees in front of a video, you’ve failed. Passive programs do not prevent or address workplace harassment. Read futher about a strategic approach much more likely to address the issue in your workplace! Read More

HR Pros – 4 Strategies for Dealing with Perpetually Negative Employees

Every workplace has that one negative employee who brings everybody down and burns out their supervisor. This post lays out strategies for supervisors to deal more effectively and helps make the case that they’re harming employees and the company. Read More

HR Pros – Four Things HR can Do to Relieve Employee Suffering

In the course of HR professional’s work with individuals in transition, they encounter employees in distress. This puts them in a position to either ignore it or provide support to lessen employee suffering. They can also prevent distress through sound planning and implementation of company change. Read more to learn some basic techniques to support employees. Read More

HR Pros – 6 Reasons Employees Don’t Disclose Workplace Abuse

What in the world does child abuse have to do with workplace bullying? You’d be surprised to learn that while child abuse is obviously more devastating and adults are better positioned to speak up, the power dynamics are quite similar. Read this brief summary to see how . . . Read More

HR Pros – Failing to Confront that Offensive Employee?- painful & expensive fallout

You know that abusive employee whose supervisor is afraid to confront? There are so many ways for it to go wrong. What if they change supervisors? What if they have legitimate grievances? You’ve just handed them a get-out-of jail-free card. Read More