Teams and Teaming

HR and Duct Tape

February 25, 2011

I had the distinct pleasure of attending the Daytona 500 NASCAR race on Sunday courtesy of OrlandoJobs.com. It truly was a lifetime, bucket list experience that I’ll never forget. OMG, it was fun – and LOUD. Being ever the Whisperer though, I couldn’t help but watch everything that was happening around me and how people behaved. [...]

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A Passport for Employees

March 9, 2010

I’ll tell you, I’m a list person. Can cover a lot of ground with a bulleted list. Found a great list the other day posted on the fridge at Webster University where I serve as an academic advisor and associate professor entitled, A Passport for Life by Regina Brett. Thought the idea of it was [...]

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64 Ways to Show Employee Love

January 28, 2010

I was listening to the radio the other day on my way home from the ever-present swim team car pool drive (an hour and a half round trip, ugh) and heard the radio jockeys talking about Valentine’s Day and an article on they found on the Internet related to “64 Ways to Say I Love [...]

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Exercise, Discipline and Affection

October 1, 2009

It kills me, just kills me, when I read about HR-related issues in BusinessWeek magazine. I know it is a business-related sheet and all, but they don’t always make me feel all warm and fuzzy when they start talking about the human side of things. It’s not often that an article will catch my eye, [...]

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It’s Not Nice to Fool with Mother Nature

September 14, 2009

Living in Florida has really gotten me accustomed to thunderstorms. I was driving in the car with my husband the other day and we were looking at these gorgeous fluffy clouds that were stacking up on top of each other. My husband, the wonderful scientist that he is, put on his meteorologist’s cap and educated me [...]

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