Yesterday the California Supreme Court adopted a new legal standard that will make it much more difficult for businesses to classify workers as independent contractors, drastically changing the legal landscape across the golden state. The misclassification of workers can result…
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9 Steps to Assure Success of Global Teams
Establishing a global team is always a daunting task. How do you get people on time zones around the world on a video conference together, knowing someone will be up in the middle of the night? How do you motivate…
Eliminating Performance Ratings? Managers Ability to Deliver Feedback Is Essential!
When we removed performance rankings from our performance review process at Medtronic Coronary and Peripheral in 2012, some executive leaders and managers warned that employees would lose the competitive edge to perform. They didn’t. Our changes included holding weekly or…
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The number of lies on resumes is increasing. Who is telling the truth and who is lying?
The number of lies on resumes is increasing and could be as high as 85%. An Office Team survey found that 46% of workers said they know someone who lied on a resume — a 25-point increase from its 2011…
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New Research Shows How Stable Schedules Increases Productivity
When I worked with factory leaders in the US in the 1980s, I provided them research showing that factory worker productivity declined heavily after 11 hours and after sustained days of constant overtime. They used the research to schedule more…
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Newly Promoted to VP? Your Learning Has Just Begun.
A new vice president reached out to me recently to discuss how to prepare for her new role. She asked me what she needed to do differently. Every promotion is a passage to a new level of leadership I told…
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Blockchain is here. Is HR ready?
As a recruiter, wouldn’t you like to receive 100% accurate and verifiable resumes and conduct instantaneous background checks? That technology is here. And it is called blockchain. Blockchain technology is a secure decentralized network of computers that verifies and automates…
Seven Traits of Agile and Innovative Leaders
Dominance used to be the main criteria CEOs and Chief Human Resources Officers used to determine who would make a great leader. Dominance and achievement were the most reliable characteristics CEOs looked for to determine who would be their successors.…
Achieve a zero-day job opening fill rate even with 4% unemployment
If your recruiters are spending hours or days hunting through job postings and social media looking for job candidates and handing resumes to hiring managers — you are wasting your time. Affordable technology now exists to replace the days of…
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Suffering from a lax work culture? The answer is in the numbers.
A business executive complained to me about the lax work culture shown by his employees. “Everyone leaves the office by 4:30,” he said. “Where is their commitment to our mission? Where is their commitment to our customers and to get…
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