Blogs / 2012 / July

Schedules are useful tools only if they reflect accurate planning. Often what looks like a perfectly good schedule turns out to be a fantasy – a wishful projection for how we’ll spend our very limited time. Here’s a story told to me by the manager... More...

Consider one of the ironies of our ever-changing and expanding technical world: Being a high tech specialist, “nerd” or even a “maven” is not sufficient to guarantee the effectiveness or success of electronic meetings, phone conferences, webinars, a... More...

Authors: John Doran, Carie Torrence, and Sarah Green Many employers maintain policies prohibiting off-duty employees from accessing their facilities. Since its Tri-County Medical Center decision more than 35 years ago, the National Labor Relat... More...

Authors: Stephen Tedesco, Van Goodwin, and Richard Leasia On July 2, 2012, the California Supreme Court issued its long-awaited decision in State Building and Constructions Trades Councils of California, AFL – CIO v. City of Vista, No. S173586... More...

Performance feedback is a key component of any gamification strategy. An employee views his or her work as meaningful if there is a sense that progress is being made. They need to know where they stand, what they are doing right, and where they can m... More...

Q: How do I know when to hire additional employees? A: Balancing your company workload with available staff can be challenging. Especially, in industries that experience natural highs and lows of demand. You don’t want to hire unnecessarily for a ... More...

Looks Do Matter Discriminating against people based on their physical appearance is wrong -- both morally, and in many cases, legally speaking. The way you look usually has no bearing on how you’ll perform in your job, and in a perfect world ever... More...

“More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill—none have wrestled without pride.” ~ Dan Gable Click this link to read the full article, as published at Forbes.com: www.forbe... More...

www.electronici9.com Imagine: immigration officers audit your company’s I-9 forms. Nine years later, the officers return to conduct a second audit and issues steep fines, in addition to charging your company with egregious, “knowingly hiring” v... More...

Recognize This! – Creativity is not enough without delivery on the promise. I’ll hazard a guess that 100% of my readers watched the Olympics opening ceremony, at least in part, or read about it, or saw elements of it on news coverage. What di... More...

It’s important to keep sales teams motivated, especially during times in which a company relies on these individuals to drive additional revenue http://www.canidium.com/designing-an-effective-incentive-plan/ More...

Recognize This! – The Olympics offer us lessons to apply in the workplace on how to achieve both individual and organization success. How competitive is your workplace? Is it a good type of competition or one that breeds dissension, disharmony a... More...

Matthew Bellows is the CEO of Yesware, an extension for Gmail (and soon, other clients) that helps salespeople track the success of their missives. Bellows is also an expert on another kind of sales--specifically, how a job applicant should not sell ... More...

A record number of federal wage and hour lawsuits were filed under the Fair Labor Standards Act in 2012, according to employment law firm Seyfarth Shaw LLP. There were 7,064 such cases filed in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2012, up from 2,035... More...

According to the ASA Staffing Index, since the beginning of 2012, temporary and contract employment has grown by 22.4% - up 4.4% in July 2012 from July 2011 alone. Typically, staffing employment peaks between mid-November and mid-December each ye... More...

When we use the behaviors, functions and attitudes that are natural for our Striving Style, it increases our energy, we grow, develop, and are rewarded without undue duress or stress. When we are forced to adapt to workplace norms, it creates both em... More...

Think for a moment of a time when you felt truly connected to yourself – you were on purpose, knew what you needed, had a plan to get it, and felt passionate about doing so. Although many of us have experienced times when we felt we were acting from ... More...

But it takes motivation, determination and discipline to change your brain over time. Most people believe that once you learn something your behaviour should reflect what you know. The brain doesn’t work like that. We have more information than ever ... More...

The Striving Styles System goes deeper than other systems of typology by looking at the predominant needs of each of the Styles and how they behave when they are self-actualizing and self-protecting. The Striving Styles System can be of enormous ben... More...

People need to feel a sense of belonging in order to find meaning in their work and to engage the power of their emotions. The more employees discover links between personal ideals, a meaningful organizational mission or intention, and larger social ... More...

Featured in the Globe & Mail business section, Wednesday, March 9th, 2011 Much of what we read about employee motivation suggests that this is the job of leaders and managers as though employees are incapable of doing so themselves. The assump... More...

Presenteeism is the act of an employee showing up at work without fully engaging their energy, hearts and minds. In many organizations, it is actually the norm. Employees gather around the water cooler talking about what they’re manager is doing wron... More...

What benefit is it to the organization if short-term goals are met but a leader’s behaviour contributes to employee unrest, sabotage, or high turnover with loss of skills and knowledge? Leaders must be aware of how their behaviour impacts on the moti... More...

American psychologist Henry Murray (1893-1988) described needs as a, “potentiality or readiness to respond in a certain way under certain given circumstances” (1938). Human needs are the source of intrinsic motivation for all behavior and social inte... More...

Identifying our automatic thinking usually changes the way we feel and puts us in a much more empowered position to make wise and meaningful decisions. Learning to observe your thoughts gives you the opportunity to recognize the emotional responses y... More...

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Teach New Young Workers How to Make a Plan

The Hidden Cognitive-Communicative Hazards in Phone/Web Conferencing: Disarming the Dangerous Alliance of Assumptions, Anonymity, and Aggression – Part I

NLRB Opens the Door for Off-Duty Employees to Engage in Organizing Activity

California Supreme Court Rules That State’s Prevailing Wage Law Is Not Quite So Prevailing: Charter Cities Need Not Require Prevailing Wages on Publicly Funded Municipal Construction Projects

The Impact Gamification Has On Performance Feedback

ROPELLA ANSWERS: "To Hire or Not to Hire"

7 Ways Your Looks Affect Your Pay

Why Wrestlers Make the Best Employees

ICE Re-Audits Employer, Alleged Knowing Hiring of Unauthorized Workers

2 Steps to Developing & Delivering Creativity on an Olympic Scale

Designing an effective incentive plan

Cooperation? Competition? Coopertition? What’s the Best Approach for Success?

The Job Interview From Hell

Wage and Hour Lawsuits Hit Record High

Temporary and Contract Employment Has Grown 22.4% So Far This Year

Workplace Stress and Striving Styles

Who Are You Meant to Be?

We Can Change Our Brain and Our Behaviour

Using the Striving Styles System in the Workplace

The Importance of Creating a Sense of Belonging in Organizations

The Art of Not Demotivating Your Employees

Presenteeism and the Disengaged Employee

Managing Performance by Understanding Behaviour

Intrinsic Motivation and the Striving Styles System

Feelings Aren't Facts - Emotional Reasoning

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	Online Overload: The Perfect Candidates Are Out There - If You Can Find Them

	Cartus Global Survey Shows Trend to Shorter-Term International Relocation Assignments

	Rewards, Vacation and Perks Are Passé; Canadians Care Most About Cash