SHRM’s leadership shines bright again with this offering of the week at the SHRM Bookstore: Ready-To-Use Performance Appraisals.
I can’t make this stuff up, folks.
If you’re a manager, there’s nothing more important than managing. That means giving guidance. It means telling people what you know. It means hiring people who are smarter and more talented [...]

You know what’s a crisis? Drought. Famine. Disease. Nuclear annihilation.
You what’s not a crisis? Meetings. Rumors. Performance reviews. Fake deadlines.
When you get as old as me you’ve seen a few things come and a few things go. I’ve worked for a lot of years in leadership positions and as a business owner. I [...]

There’s a mismatch between what science knows and business does. — Dan Pink
I read this article about motivation on SwissMiss:
Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don’t: Traditional rewards aren’t always as effective as we think.
The movie that’s embedded below can bring [...]

My friend Donna, who runs Sheer Brick Studio, led me to The Lemonade Movie. The trailer here tells the story of a few of the 70,000+ advertising professionals who have been laid off in this economy and what they’re doing with their lives. My favorite line is the one in the title of this article: [...]

Shawn, our art director, took our article 10 Human Resources Species on the Verge of Extinction and turned it into a graphic design. To check out what he did, and how much difference design makes in communication, click here.