By Sheri Mazurek on July 1, 2013
Keeping Employees Motivated & Slick as Ice in the Summer Aiming high for productivity during the summer can be difficult when everyone is making plans for vacation and time to visit with family and loved ones. Beyond maintaining productivity in the workplace, it’s hard to keep employees in the office in the summer. In many […]
By Sheri Mazurek on June 17, 2013
From a fuzzy idea to a survey to actionable intelligence: How to plan an employee survey to encourage organizational change. Guest Post Written By David Chaudron, PHD David shares his 11 pointers that allow movement from the “Yeah, we need to find out what our employees are thinking” to specific actions based upon the data collected. […]
By Sheri Mazurek on May 16, 2013
In a recent article, Forbes lists three things that will get your resume “thrown in the trash.” The list includes three resume mistakes that will most likely get candidates overlooked. The article provides good advice. I would recommend giving it a read. The Forbes list includes the following: • You don’t meet the basic requirements […]
By Sheri Mazurek on April 7, 2013
During my career, I have been given a few nuggets of wisdom from people with whom I have made contact. Upon truly understanding their meaning, those words shaped a paradigm shift in my thinking that transformed the way in which I did my work or lived my life. Other pieces of wisdom I heard simply […]
By Sheri Mazurek on March 11, 2013
In Wally Bock’s Three Start Leadership Blog, I saw this boss’s tip of the Day: Boss’s Tip of the Day: Protect your people So often we forget this. So often we worry too much about our own career and our own protection. We forget that our success is determined by their success. This was a […]
By Sheri Mazurek on January 14, 2013
The predictions are in. Josh Bersin, Principal and Founder Bersin by Deloitte, Deloitte Consulting LLP has published Predictions for 2013: Corporate Talent, Leadership and HR-Nexus of Global Forces Drives New Models for Talent. You can view the entire report here.
By Sheri Mazurek on December 8, 2012
In this season of peace, love, family, and a little madness, I have a list of holiday wishes for you.
May all your projects close on time and on budget.
By Sheri Mazurek on November 18, 2012
There are career centers and networking groups all over advising us to perfect our elevator speech. Armed with this advice, many get busy writing and practicing (well, maybe practicing) their 30 or 45 or 60 second commercial. Once the speech is perfected off you go to your networking event, conference or career fair ready to make connections.
By Sheri Mazurek on October 29, 2012
here are a number of scary things in the world and in business. In honor of Halloween week, below is a list of some of the scariest things about HR….
By Sheri Mazurek on October 21, 2012
n organizations, there are people who love to participate in training events and there are at least an equal (most likely more) amount of people who hate training events. Those haters of the training events are most likely not opposed to learning. In fact, when they need know something, most of them will find a way to learn it.