Posted on 19 April 2013. Tags: reward, work from home, yahoo
Building on last week’s post on Yahoo’s work-from-home policy change, let’s look at the big “how” rather than the why. Cy Wakeman at Forbes wrote a piece basically outlining that a sweeping change in policy is really indicative of deeper problems of leadership within a company. I believe that leaders should reward their best employees [...]
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Posted in Management
Posted on 15 April 2013. Tags: contractors, nesco, work from home
When Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer announced in February that the company would no longer allow employees to work from home, it launched a media storm. Actually, it launched several media storms and the story became whatever anyone seemed to want to make it. Here’s part of what she said: To become the absolute best place [...]
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Posted in Featured, HR Strategies, Technology, Workplace Management
Posted on 03 January 2013. Tags: happiness, sales, team work, TED
In this video, Michael Norton talks about a research project that forced people to spend money on other people. The results? People were happier when they spent money on other people than if they spent it on themselves. The amount of money didn’t seem to make a difference nor did what they actually bought. Just [...]
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Posted in Featured, Management, Video
Posted on 20 December 2012.
There is plenty of advice out there about office parties filled with cautionary tales involving too much egg nog. This is sound advice, but it kind of frames holiday parties as a kind of necessary evil; a minefield best entered and exited cautiously. But office parties are also important tools for career development, management finesse, and [...]
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Posted in HR Strategies, Management, Office Politics
Posted on 08 October 2012. Tags: fixing long meetings, meetings, merlin mann, video advice
“No one thinks their own meetings suck.” That’s a great take away (and quote) from this talk. Meetings are both an employee and a management issue. Is someone wasting your time? Are you wasting someone else’s time? But how to solve it? Merlin Mann offers a few tips on how to fix a broken meeting culture that [...]
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Posted in Featured, Management
Posted on 28 June 2012. Tags: Employee Satisfaction, infographic
Posted in Work/Life
Posted on 30 May 2012. Tags: career, cover, facebook, history, image, job, Resume, search, timeline
Facebook’s new timeline format was rolled out so slowly that many folks don’t know that it even exists. And while Facebook isn’t as dressed up for business as LinkedIn, the new format does allow for a much more resume-like feel. It’s as though Facebook has embraced that sometimes uncomfortable line between private lives and employment [...]
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Posted in Featured, The Search
Posted on 15 February 2012.
One of the trends in this ‘jobless’ recovery from the Great Recession is the noticeable skills gap that impacts many industries today. At Nesco Resource, we sometimes struggle to match available employees to the specific job requirements outlined by our clients. In the Cleveland market near our corporate HQ, this skills gap is clear and [...]
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Posted in Featured, HR Strategies, Workplace Management
Posted on 21 September 2011.
The Elevator Speech is supposed to be that quick 3 minute blurb about who you are and what you do. It’s that magic moment when you have someone’s (presumably a CEO) attention and you need to make the most of it. Realistically, however, making a well crafted elevator speech can be just as valuable to [...]
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Posted in Management
Posted on 14 July 2011.
There is actually a fairly common problem in most companies that most people never talk about. It’s the typical trajectory of a career: Do a job well -> Get Promoted -> Manage others doing the same job. The reason most companies don’t think about it is simple. People like getting rewarded for a job well [...]
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Posted in Management