Liz Malatestinic: Employee turnover is costlier than you think
Perhaps the question isn’t whether you can afford to increase the salary of a current employee, but whether you can afford to replace that individual.
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Samantha Julka: Want real answers? Talk to people
I’m a formally trained researcher specializing in qualitative research. What that means, and how the job is different from other types of researchers, fills many a book. In the following few hundred words, I’m not going to bother talking about the nuances of researchers because, well, boring. Instead, I’m going to talk about an approach […]
Kristen Cooper: What’s the collateral damage of excluding women?
Personally, I don’t support any event or conference with my money or time that doesn’t include women on panels.
WESTERHAUS-RENFROW: Executive presence makes a difference
Remember that effective executive presence is not alluring charm or likeableness. Rather, it’s the product of temperament, competencies and skills.
IN THE WORKPLACE: When sex, politics, religion become office banter
What should managers do? Should they encourage employees to limit discussion to safe topics like movies, the weather and how much they hate potholes?
MALATESTINIC: Open work spaces: Does your company fit?
Distractions abound, and the good ideas the employer had hoped to engender through collaboration might never appear.
WORKPLACE: The merits of trading busy for something better
We use the word busy to describe how we are doing, we use it to measure our success at work, and we use it to describe our family lives.