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
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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, misleading stories that report on the studies. Or the ones that I don’t like.
It seems there’s been a bunch of these recently, and I admit, I’m a sucker for them. I read ‘em all, and pass the interesting ones along to my readers.
“In Praise of Dullness,” published as an op-ed in the May 18 New York Times, just put me over the edge. It’s not so much the study and findings … it’s the way journalists interpret and report the results.
And I admit, I’m guilty of doing the same thing. (read more…)
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 to work, not trouble
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The SmartBrief Jobs team is in Las Vegas this week at Kennedy Information’s Recruiting Conference and Expo. This post is by Lee Vanderwerff.
This year’s group at the conference is small but engaged; we’re hearing lots of new ideas and good conversations among recruiters, sourcers, and HR vendors.
I attended a session on employment branding strategy with Kat Drum, Starbucks’ global employment brand program manager. She has the huge and weighty job of communicating to prospective and current employees who Starbucks is and why they’re a company you’d like to work for.
Starbucks’ employment branding starts with, as Kat says, “the people in the green aprons” — the baristas. They are the face of Starbucks to consumers.
To attract and retain more of those “green aprons,” in 2006, Kat and her team created a global employment value proposition (EVP). Their EVP has five tenets based on an employee’s ability to express herself at work, embrace the human connection, enable great customer service, develop their own career, and work for a growing and engaging global company. (read more…)
Last week’s SmartBrief on Workforce poll: Do women face discrimination at your office?
- No, 52%
- Yes, 48%
Respondents to our poll were about evenly split on whether gender discrimination was still a problem where they worked. I suspect it depends on the culture of your office as well as your industry. Most of the discrimination that occurs in U.S. workplaces now is more subtle: Women’s potential as leaders discounted, mothers viewed as less committed to the job when no such assumption is made about fathers, etc. Hey, at least we no longer have to look at ads like this: 15 Sexist Vintage Ads.
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