Removing Obstacles to Success
August 28, 4:10 am
Yesterday I related some of the ways morale was being destroyed at a friend’s workplace. After a bit of investigation, I learned the changes will cause at least 15 employees to leave – twenty percent of the workforce. And that’s just to start.
One of the reasons the company wants to make changes is to save […]
August 27, 4:08 am
The following list is by no means exhaustive — there are thousands of ways to kill employee morale. But here are a few that emerged from a conversation with a friend of mine the other day. He was sharing with me some of the changes going on at his work, and talking about the number of […]
August 12, 8:29 am
Thanks goes to Paula Santonocito, business journalist, editor, career advisor, and all around good person, for quoting me last week at the single-minded women’s blog.
Paula had interviewed me for an article she wrote for Thompson Reuter’s HRWire, and it must have stuck in her mind that I place high importance on the skill of listening — In her […]
August 11, 11:19 pm
The following story is true. The names and places have been changed to protect the innocent—and the guilty…
About a year ago Jordan’s dream job finally fell into place. His company transferred him to one of their manufacturing plants in the south where he would serve as a process improvement specialist—a newly created position for his […]
July 8, 5:32 am
This week’s ASTD’s Buzz newsletter tells us that the average worker received 35.06 hours of training in 2006. (see ASTD State of the Industry Report)
Okay, 35 hours is the average.
What’s interesting is that companies demonstrating enterprise-wide success as a result of well planned training and development are delivering an average of 44.34 hours of training […]
July 7, 10:54 am
by Dan Bobinski
At a recent business breakfast I learned something about a potential vendor that made me decide not to do business with that person—The person’s bad manners.
Here’s what happened:
The menu was large and had a good variety to choose from, but nothing seemed to “fit” for this person. In a disgusted voice, the person […]
June 26, 6:09 am
A while back I was hired to deliver a keynote speech for a national organization’s annual meeting. My philosophy is that if you’re going to hire a speaker on a particular topic, let that person speak on the topic — don’t try to write his speech for him.
But that didn’t happen this time. One of […]
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