Team building and team work is key driver to the group’s and organizations success.  Within any team, you’ll find a variety of different people and personalities each with a different task or assignment.  The most effective team cultures thrive where team members recognize and appreciate that everyone else on the team has important value to […]

Over two hundred U.S. organizations of varying size from different industries submitted data to ASTD’s Benchmarking Service detailing how they invested in and delivered training to their employees during 2014. Highlights from ASTD’s 2013 Benchmarking Service include the following: Training expenditure per employee in 2013; organizations on average spent $1,208 per employee on training and […]

Corporate Governance for Startups Introduction: The abundant research undertaken on this topic uncovered an incredibly overarching quote that serves as a descriptive preamble: “Boards of early stage technology companies have significant challenges: incomplete management teams, inexperienced and aggressive founders, lack of resources, high risk with small margins for error, etc. Experienced directors can make a […]

In today’ fast paced global economy, rapid change has become the norm; therefore, it’s critical that organizations develop a more coherent customer-centric approach to managing people. In just the same way a business requires a marketing or information technology strategy it also requires a human resource or people (customer) strategy. To begin with, what is […]

Understanding employee motivation and a need for recognition Recognizing that employee motivation and recognition is critical to your business success is a no-brainer; the more difficult and abstract part of the equation is determining what actually motivates your employee’s (which, depending on their age, familial status and tenure is going to be quite different with […]

Thinking through the daunting task of staff reductions Throughout the past few years, I’ve shared a plethora of blogs and other postings in support of “hiring right, performance development, corporate and personal responsibility, as well as workplace cultures”; however, the one thing that’s been overlooked is how to effectively manage and access your team’s strengths/weaknesses […]