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Yes to Unvarnished Truth, No to “Unvarnished”

April 13, 2010

I’m going to play my 2-year-old self today. “No-no-no-no-NO.” What brought that on? Hearing the proposal for a new website called “Unvarnished.” It allows for employees to be reviewed anonymously, for the world to see, with no way of removing a negative review. Like the sites RateMyProfessors or RateMDs, the intention is to reflect a [...]

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Small is the New Big at Work

March 29, 2010

My new Facebook buddy, Anthony McCann recently shared an article from TimesOnline.com, titled, “Small is Beautiful in the New Capitalism.“ Now, granted the article is about small business and entrepreneurs, but I think larger corporations can learn something from it too. “If I’m going to produce something, it should do something really good,” says fashion [...]

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Get the Report: Employee Development Needs in This Economic Recession

October 11, 2009

“Things are always changing and we need people who are energized by change and look for opportunities for themselves to grow with opportunities and to help our company and our customers grow as well.” ~ Survey Respondent It might seem like an uphill battle, to get the kind of energy and initiative described above. After [...]

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What The World Needs Now: Leadership 2.0

October 6, 2009

Joe Gerstandt and I have been tossing some questions back and forth, and this time we decided to both answer the same question, which is this: We both focus largely on the intangible assets in an organization or community…the things that cannot be easily counted or weighed…things like difference, trust, relationships, culture, etc. What can [...]

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Prevent ‘EE Exodus: Make It Make Sense to Them

September 30, 2009

I saw a intriguing phrase recently in regard to employees’ state of mind: “turnover intention” A Deloitte report describes this as, “an employee’s “conscious and deliberate willfulness to leave the organization” within a certain time interval, e.g., the next six months” (Tett and Meyer, 1993). You know that I think it is important to never take [...]

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Employee Engagement – For the Win!

September 10, 2009

I find it interesting when I am asked to back up my claim that employee engagement actually supports productivity and profitability. There has been plenty of evidence available on this for at least 30 years, and darned it if Gallup didn’t produce some more recently. (Thank you Gallup!) Their study parses apart the differences between [...]

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The Most, Bestest Book (on Diversity & Inclusion in the Workplace)

August 11, 2009

Joe Gerstandt and I have an ongoing Q&A exchange that we are posting on both of our blogs. This week I have this question for Joe. Q: For an organization leader who sincerely wants to better understand what it is going to take to make her/his organization more innovative, by way of diversity and inclusion, [...]

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Relate More Humanly at Work: The Role of Leaders and HR

July 14, 2009

[Re-released Dec. 19, 2009] If you have seen my interview with Freedom Fighter, Joe Gerstandt, you know that Joe and I have agreed to exchange interview questions regularly. Here’s the latest. Joe: What experiences in your HR career led you to focus on a “different way of relating” at work? Mary: What I want to [...]

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