Bill Strahan at Human Markets wrote a great piece today titled Before the Tee Shirts. The lead in to his Top 10 list knocked me out:
Here is my list of ten things that you should have in the work place before you fire up the silk screen.
My favorite is #7, which begins, “Pay competitively, reward [...]

Joe Cocker is a great singer, but, man, his articulation is abysmal. Check out the video above to see what I mean. (It’s also one of the funniest videos I’ve ever seen.)
Your HR communications need to be clear. Think Frank Sinatra, not Joe Cocker. You want your employees to understand the words, not make up [...]

What do you think will happen when someone posts a sign that says, “PEOPLE ACTUALLY LIVE HERE…SO PLEASE DON’T BANG ON MY WINDOW!!!”? Do you think fewer people banged on the window in this house on 4th Street in Philadelphia? Hardly. Heck, I wanted to see the cat and almost knocked on the glass myself.
So [...]

We had a little spam bot interlude. Over the next few days we’re moving KnowHR to a new hosting platform that can do more than just say “You have excessive server processor load.” We’ll be back to our regularly scheduled program soon.

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses.
–Margaret Millar
I went to grad school to study communication theory, so I’ll do you a favor and save you some time by condensing all those courses into a single phrase: You’re not communicating unless you hear back.
There, now you have a master’s degree in [...]