“Social media is content created by people using highly accessible and scalable publishing technologies…” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media Social media has expanded exponentially in recent years, leaving many businesses and their employees in uncharted territory. Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn, Blogs, Instant Messaging… and countless others means of humans interacting electronically. People are interacting…
2010 is shaping up to be an especially dangerous year to be a California Employer. We have the national health care debate, massive losses in the unemployment system, and let’s not forget workers comp. While we have no idea what will come out of Washington or Sacramento, what we do…
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if every workplace operated in a harmonious way? Fortunately, for many companies in our community, this is the case. Organizations with people who work in harmony have capabilities that nurture their capacity for pleasure and work. Ultimately, companies in which people collaborate best will have a…
Emotional Intelligence, by Daniel Goleman We’ve all had that employee who we hired with such great expectations. Their resume was impressive, including both experience and education that indicated they could be a star employee, and they generated such confidence during their interviews. However, they failed to engage with other staff,…
“Emotional intelligence is the ability to sense, understand, and effectively apply the power and acumen of emotions as a source of human energy, information, connection, and influence.” Robert K. Cooper. Ph.D. As Human Resource professionals we experience firsthand the complexities and challenges of managing people in organizations each day. We…
We are watching the health care reform debate with keen interest. Not from a political perspective, although like most Americans we have personal opinions and preferences, but from an HR perspective. Ours is a pragmatic view gained from more than twenty years on the front lines in HR helping businesses…
Sometimes an employer’s best intentions will lead decisions or actions which unintentionally violate an employee’s rights and can even lead to discrimination charges. We regularly see this happen when an employee returns from leave or notifies their employer of a pregnancy or other medical issue. Often the employer, either out…
A management consultant YPP works with recommended a number of business books for us to read recently. I have to admit, I am someone who generally finds business books either very dull or too simplistic; I don’t want to read an entire book to glean a few truly new ideas…
Why should management and HR make a dramatic shift and change the dynamic of HR as usual? Given the challenges of this prolonged economic downturn and the crucial need to leverage every available brain cell in our organizations how can we not? The landscape around us has changed and we…
Could this seemingly endless recession claim yet another victim, our creative spirit? As I see my friends, family and coworkers struggling to keep heads above water in an economy stuck in the muck I’m developing a new concern, that our creative spark may get lost. Fear and frustration seem to…
