Transferring face-to-face classroom energy strategies to the virtual environment. I conducted my first virtual training program in 1986 via satellite. It was for the United States Chamber of Commerce. It was three hours long on the topic of “Creative Presentation Techniques,” and it was delivered...
Dive Brief: Executives recognize the pressures employees face as companies move through digital transformations, but many overestimate their offerings to employees in areas such as training, support and job expectations, according to a Sept. 30 IBM Institute for Business Value report. In data...
From video game publishers to coffee shops, pay disclosures are rattling HR. Sources say employers need to be careful when forming a response. In recent years, workers across entire companies and even entire industries have taken pay transparency to a new level via crowdsourced spreadsheets. One...
There is no shortage of quotes about success in business. “A vision without a strategy remains an illusion.” ... “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” ... “Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.” ... The list goes on and each has merit. Yet none of them work without talented...
A District Court judge in Illinois has dismissed a whistleblower lawsuit filed against a healthcare provider, medical debt collection agency, and a medical billing company, alleging they engaged in a “ghost payroll” scheme that resulted in a larger Medicare payment from the federal government than...
Friends, I am worried about the U.S. Postal Service. We've not been kind to it in the past (all those "going postal" jokes that were never funny), and it's not always been kind to us (who hasn't had something lost in the mail?), but it's in the Constitution that we have one, a Postal Service, and...
Innovation, like real estate, really does depend on “location, location, location.” While tech company employees are using COVID-19 remote working as a way to escape high-cost areas such as San Francisco, speculation about an exodus may be temporary. Business leaders and their teams need to...
I’ve never really understood the fashion industry. I get the concept (though no one has ever described me as fashionable), but fashion trends seem fickle, making the business too unpredictable. Industries like technology, engineering, medicine and even most services evolve and improve as a result...
The COVID-19 pandemic has completely upended the traditional workplace, forcing most offices to go 100 percent remote almost overnight. During this new digital workplace reality, many companies have worked through small setbacks and technical challenges with their current workforce to ensure...
Organizational agility was once desirable, but is now central to business survival. Digitization should not be seen as an acceptable solution to a problem, but rather grounds to change the business model creatively for the better. Cooperation with previously unlikely partners proffers a more...
To get through these trying times, companies everywhere are examining their business models and day-to-day operations. They’re taking a keen eye to everything from their ordering processes to their employee onboarding to help identify the best opportunities to weather the COVID storm. ...
Dive Brief: Nearly half of employers use a traditional paid leave plan, while 44% offer a single PTO bank, according to the results of a June 17 survey by XpertHR. In traditional plans, leave is organized into categories such as sick leave and vacation. In PTO plans, as defined by XpertHR, all or...