Archive for May 2009
This week’s most clicked
The 5 most-clicked links in SmartBrief on Workforce this past week: How to proffer praise Leading without official authority Keeping the clever people happy In defense of people skills Networking secrets of CEOs Photo credit, iStock
Today’s bonus tracks
While you wait for your SmartBrief on Workforce, check out these additional links we found this morning: When the interview subject takes control How Jim Collins puts “no” to work Debating the moral angle of layoffs Image credit, iStock
Today’s bonus tracks
Today’s outtakes from the SmartBrief on Workforce include the results of a study on the impact of workplace hostility. You can’t control everything — “HR will never be able to get everyone to eat lunch at the same table or go on coffee breaks together,” as one expert put it — but that doesn’t mean [...]
Social search, for employers
Last week’s SmartBrief on Workforce poll: Do businesses have a right to know how employees portray themselves online? No, 52% Yes, 48% Social media continues to erode the boundaries we once assumed existed between personal and professional life. Our readers were equally divided on how much poking around employers should be doing in their workers’ [...]
Today’s bonus tracks
I love Marshall Goldsmith, especially when he’s being a little bit contrary, like in this piece in Talent Management magazine. Don’t coast during your last few months before retirement, he says — or worry too much about your image. “It’s an opportunity for an experienced executive to make those, tough, unpopular decisions that he or [...]
This week’s most clicked
The 5 most-clicked links in SmartBrief on Workforce this past week: 9 marks of natural leaders How to be happy at work Google’s formula for predicting the quitters 5 tips to zoom through your day Amnesty for office thieves Photo credit, iStock
A ban on what-makes-CEOs-successful studies?
Today’s guest post is by Dan McCarthy, author of the blog Great Leadership. His day job involves overseeing leadership and management development at a Fortune “Great Place to Work,” “Training Top 125,” and “High Impact Learning” (HILO 80) company. I hereby announce a ban on “What makes CEOs successful” studies. Or at least the silly, [...]
Today’s bonus tracks
Today’s extra links include a good piece from Sharlyn Lauby: “Employees will perform better when you set the level of expectation, communicate it clearly, and manage to it. Not to mention that it will make your life a whole lot easier.” How well do you manage workers’ expectations? 5 Crimes of awful managers Bringing dogs [...]
