Organization Development

Biology of the Pack Leader

January 10, 2012

This is a reprint of a post I wrote in 2009. I’m presently working with a client on a development program for its manufacturing team leads and it struck me once again just how critical EQ and social connectedness are to leadership excellence and effectiveness. Just using those mirror neurons… You know, as the HR Whisperer, I’m really [...]

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Florida Style HR – State Conferencing At Its Best!

August 25, 2011

IT’S A RECORD BREAKER. Let me say that again: IT’S A RECORD BREAKER! I don’t know about you, but I’m getting ready to join over 1,700 people at the 2011 HR Florida State Conference & Expo in Orlando, which starts Monday, August 29th. If you want to join the fun, head over to www.hrflorida.org to [...]

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Leadership Commandments…Personal or Otherwise

July 1, 2011

I received this gem of a poem from one of my clients. We’ve been working together on an intervention to help his department and collective organization get employees more engaged. Tough thing to do, given folks don’t get recognition or even raises, really and job satisfaction is very high. Just the fact that he sent this to [...]

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Bachelors – And No, Not The Reality Show

June 24, 2011

Why are Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees required for jobs? That was the question I was asked the other night by one of the students in my graduate class on human resources management. At first blush I thought it had to do with cognitive ability (and I was right), but when I don’t know something to be empirically [...]

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Are You Willing to Smoke Out Your Job?

June 4, 2011

Every so often I come across articles on the web that spark some kind of interest but I don’t have time to read them, so I bookmark them for later. I had this particular article bookmarked for a while (okay, since February), and when I finally got the chance to read it, it struck me [...]

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