In HR and recruiting, it seems that we are always on a quest to find the perfect candidate and to fill a seemingly unending list of job openings. Managers may be pressuring us to find candidates with enough experience that they can slide right into...
If you're new to temporary work, you might have some questions about what makes it different from a regular job. Working with a staffing agency has many benefits for those looking for a job opportunity....
By John Boudreau, Professor of Management and Organization at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business In your organization, does innovation mean finding new ways to exploit what you already do well or exploring arenas where you’re unfamiliar and will make mistakes? Or both? If...
Coffee is everywhere in modern society, but it wasn't always this way. The United States was a country of tea drinkers until the decades following World War II. While the first batches of coffee were available stateside in the late 1700s, the drink was taken...
By Blake Stevens, Director of People & Culture We all have the opportunity and the privilege to innovate. Innovators always get the credit for all the great ideas that have come out. But innovation is not a position or a privilege given to a select few. Because...
Complacency at work can lead to career stagnation. Turning up to work every day and performing your assigned duties, but nothing more, is unlikely to put you in line for a promotion or pay raise. To overcome this complacency, you need to change your mindset...
In 2014 Peco Foods, Inc., one of the industry’s leading suppliers, announced it would build a 272,000-square-foot, state of the art poultry processing plant and hatchery that would employ more than 1,000 people in Pocahontas, Arkansas. With a population of 6,469 in 2010, the announcement was...
Starting a new job is exciting, but it can also be nerve-racking because you don't know what to expect from your new boss and coworkers. While new-hire training is essential and you should definitely take it seriously, it can't fully prepare you for the everyday...
By Blake Stevens, Director of People & Culture at The Ōnin Group As leaders, a huge part of our role is developing people. Building trust in that relationship is tough, yet key to earning the right to be heard. We all say we want to listen and...
By Mike McKerns “Failure is simply an opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” ~ Henry Ford We’ve all experienced failure at different times in our lives. As children we weren’t successful at convincing our parents to let us subsist solely on junk food, and during...
By Richard Fagerlin Nobody comes to the discussion on trust empty handed. We all have strong feelings about it. We know how it feels when trust is misused, betrayed, or withheld. Our perspectives are real and have been informed by a lifetime of experiences, pain and...
By Sharlyn Lauby The two top drivers of employee engagement are recognition (for 72 percent of employees) and understanding how work contributes to the bottom-line (for 70 percent of employees), according to Harvard Business Review’s report “The Impact of Employee Engagement on Performance”. After analyzing these...