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Click Topic Below For Headlines The Big Challenge of Small Talk Posted yesterday. It’s an inevitable and sometimes uncomfortable situation. You’re in a meeting or on a conference call and not everyone has arrived, requiring you to banter with the client/boss/partner mano y mano. How do you engage in small talk and build rapport? If you get nervous and start to stammer, what do you do? Do people [...] ShareThis Tags: how to engage in small talk,human capital/human resources,business conversations,small talk,general thoughts,business skills,blog,kris Why there’sa software support and maintenance revolution underway - ZDNet Posted yesterday. Why there’sa software support and maintenance revolution underway ZDNet - 3 hours ago Dennis Howlett has captured an emerging backlash among SAP customers over an enhanced support and its costs. Oracle is doing the same drill. ... A fresh model for software maintenance ZDNet Blogs all 2 news articles  Tags: sap Don't Show Them The Benjamins... Posted yesterday. If you haven't found him yet, Tom Fishburne has a blog called "This One Time at Brand Camp" using cartoons and commentary to highlight issues in the marketing realm. I highly recommend you subscribe. I direct you to this little ditty on product promotions - specifically, price-driven product promotions. In his post Tom highlights the fact that price-driven promotions are the crack of marketing - both for the marketer and the consumer. Once you start... Tags: promotions,general business,loyalty,the science of motivation,incentives,general motivation,program design,cash-back,kris Management Mini Saga: More Than Paper Reproduction in the Photocopy Room! Posted yesterday. Stuck in a Photocopy Jam
by David Zinger
What will you do? Read the following 50 word case study involving sex in the office and determine what you would do if you were the manager in this situation.
Rajeesh Setty advocated writing 50-word mini sagas. I believe mini sagas offer an effective and fast format for case vignette discussions. [...] Tags: david zinger,kris Is Your Jersey On Backwards? Posted yesterday. In the 2004 Olympics, the U.S. men’s basketball team lost its opening game to Puerto Rico. Then there was a loss to Lithuania. Then another loss to Argentina. What had been billed as the “Dream Team” left the Olympics with... Tags: william uranga,engagement and satisfaction,blog,leadership development,employment branding and culture Stupid Workplace Blunders - Is a Mistake Monitor in Your Future? Posted yesterday. Some people imagine a world with no crime. Others long to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony. Me? I'm wondering if we shouldn't be strapping Fred from logistics with the Sparkamatic 5000 across his head, to serve as... Tags: communications,performance management,talent,wellness,blog,kris Social Media, Gen Y and the Workplace Posted yesterday. Michael Specht linked over to some survey results presented by Microsoft and Insurity. There were a couple of interesting findings and in my opinion they certainly do point to our need to change how the workplace operates, not only for Gen Y, but also for the sake of business growth and overall collaboration. To simply [...] Tags: web 2.0,collaboration,kris Redundancy / Downsizing - call it what you want ... Posted yesterday.  I suspect we'll be talking about the topic of redundancy / downsizing a lot over the coming weeks. Here are some introductory thoughts I had in a conversation with the ever switched-on Mr Williams on Q102: RSS Readers may need to click through to the post Shrinking to greatness? I think not. A lot more on this topic soon.
  Tags: working life,kris Nattering Nabobs of Negativism Posted yesterday. Title courtesy of William Buckley. Just what exactly do employees around the world think about their organizations, its management, products, markets and their odds of employment survival in these uncertain times? ... Tags: knxa,kenexa EEOC’s sexual harassment and reprisal suit against Boeing is revived Posted yesterday. Tags: employment law OK to Reject Applicant Wearing Religious Garb? Posted yesterday. (8/19) If an employer doesn't hire an applicant who wears a religious veil to her job interview, what legal effect does the veil bear on the employer's decision? A federal court sitting in Florida recently faced that issue.  I think I'll Throw a Tantrum Posted yesterday. Because this blog is 2, and isn't that what 2 year olds do?  Tags: kris Facebook, Google, and the People Posted yesterday. Greetings from Richmond, VA... Livemint.com (from the Wall Street Journal) tells us what Facebook has to do with Human Resources: click here HR Marketer Blog has some information on how Google rocks and the rolling of HR professionals and suppliers into one community: click here Lastly, this Human Resources blog says that no matter what media is out there, Human Resources is about the people: click here (THIS IS ONLY A PREVIEW. PLEASE CLICK THE LINK ABOVE OR CHECK OUT ASTRON'S BLOG AT http://astronsolutionsworldofhr.blogspot.com/ FOR THE FULL ARTICLE) 
...  Tags: human resources,google,wall street,wall street journal,facebook,hr,blog,kris 7 Ways To Trigger “The Zone” and Reader Tips… Posted yesterday. The Zone is a beautiful thing. Time doesn't matter. Your senses are heightened. Everything you do feels effortless and good. Often called Flow, the Zone is where you are at your peak productivity. The only drawback is the zone can be elusive. It can be difficult to reproduce. That is why it's a good idea to document how we get into the zone. The more tips we can collect, we can get into the zone more often. Here are a few of my tips for getting in the zone and an invitation for you to share your tips as well. 1. Put in 5 minutes - I like to call this the 5 minute productivity breakthrough. It works thusly... If you are putting off a task, or not feeling like getting to work on it, that is the time to put in 5 solid minutes on it. This is one of my best Zone inspiring tips. For some reason, just putting in that 5 minutes when you don't feel like it is enough to start the flow process. It's great for self discipline too. 2. Eat a mid-morning apple - Eat a light breakfast of a bowl of cereal or two slices of toast and a cup of coffee. Then at 10 a.m. eat an apple. An orange works just as well. The fructose zaps your system and puts you into overdrive. Good for regularity too. 3. Get Regular Aerobic exercise - The central part of any productivity plan is aerobic exercise. It seems like it would make you tired. But consistent heart work keeps your body in tip top shape. An efficient body works efficiently and is more streamlined for the zone. You get out what you put into aerobic exercise. But I recommend 4-5 times a week of rapid walking or jogging for 30 minutes or more. 4. Take A caffeine nap - If you are on the edge of the zone, but sort of cloudy in the head, try a ... Tags: productivity,achieve it,blog,motivation telling your boss about a slacker coworker Posted yesterday. A reader writes: How do you express concerns about a slacking co-worker to your boss without coming out sounding like a jerk? There is a co-worker in our office who can work hard when they want to, but also likes to spend quite a bit of time visiting with other employees. This same person expects others on the team to "offer" to help with work not finished. In trying to gently point out that if less time was spent visiting and more time working, then maybe help wouldn't need to be offered, the silent treatment is given and makes for an uncomfortable work environment. This person is also extremely critical of what is perceived as others' mistakes or not following through on an issue, and is almost always guilty of the same thing. Now this person wants to re-arrange some of the work assignments so their work load will be lightened, but I have a problem with that when if more time was spent working and less time visiting there wouldn't be a need to re-arrange.First, excellent job in not giving away the slacker's gender. However, for ease of discussion, I'm going to decide he's male and refer to him as such. No slight intended to the men. Okay, I'm going to break this down into two questions: how to deal with his attempt to push his work onto you, and how/whether to talk to your manager about him. 1. In dealing with his attempt to get others to help him finish his work because he wasted time goofing off, just politely refuse. Be nice about it and don't try to teach him a lesson by explaining that he created his own situation, but simply don't let him pressure you into doing it. Sample refusals: "I'm sorry but I'm slammed with deadlines." "Wish I could help but I've got my hands full." And so forth. By not helping him cover up the results of his slacking, you'll ...  Tags: advice about your coworkers,advice about your boss,kris
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