Monthly Archives: April 2016

Celebrating the Comeback Kids

Back when I was teaching in an HR master’s degree program, one of my students was involved in a project at her company called The Comeback Kids. It’s a recruiting program that focuses on bringing back former employees, and it’s the sort of thing you should consider. Having employees leave your firm is not necessarily […]

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Making Your Own Luck

Many people attribute success or failure to good luck or bad luck. “Being in the right place at the right time,” or its opposite, are often viewed as the reason things go one way or another. Maybe it is true that some things “just happen.” Maybe there are in fact some things outside your control […]

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Avoiding a Culture of Fear

Are your employees afraid to make mistakes? A student once talked to me about feeling overwhelmed by a project I had assigned them. He told me he was unable to sleep the night after getting it, and he used the word “fear” four times in the conversation. There is absolutely no reason at all that […]

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Take a Break

Even people who love what they do need a break. One of the nice things about leading talented people is that very often they are passionate about what they do. If you have people who do not mind going to work, or are in fact looking forward to it, that’s a good thing. Speaking for […]

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Stay Engaged While Staying Out of the Way

Retaining employees

There is a lot of concern around the world about low employee engagement. We know that engaged employees do better work, do more work, and create a strong employment brand that decreases recruiting and retention costs. One response to engagement worries is to help make work more interesting, and to more carefully recruit employees who […]

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