How useful is your job description? Does your actual work reflect your official role? Is what you are doing anything like the job description that you replied to from a recruiter or a website? Do you even know what your job description say? Many people we talk to, front-line managers as well as HR leaders, […]

In talking with people about their work lives, one complaint we have often heard from employees is about sitting along the wall in a conference room while others discussed the business at hand…in other words, watching other people have meetings. Though you want to be careful not to overdo it when it comes to having […]

Holding a brainstorming session in a room that is set up for an inquisition might not get you the best results. Likewise, giving a formal presentation while everyone is sitting in bean bag chairs is not going to let you make your point very well. Those things are noisy. Bottom line: when you set up […]

How much over-the-shoulder oversight should you do? How closely do you need to keep track of what your employees are doing? Good questions. There might not be any definitive answers, but at least they are good questions. As a leader you are responsible for getting projects finished and products completed. You have deadlines, whether client-driven […]

(A few years ago, I wrote a post in another blog about an incident at my workplace, when I was still working for the US government. Something I saw recently in the news reminded me of it, and I thought I would share it here.) “OK,” he said, “here we go.” It was Tuesday morning, […]