The Secret to Dealing with Conflict by Email
Here's the secret: Don't. You're welcome. ...
Two Numbers that Will Wake You Up
100 million and 77%. The first number represents the number of Millennials in the United States. Only about half of them are in the workforce at the moment, and they will be the ONLY segment in the workforce that grow ...
What’s It REALLY Like to Work There?
There is a game we play when organizations hire people, and it's not really serving us. The game centers around what it's REALLY like to work there. In this game, the organization has an interest in spinning the positive ...
The Myth of Millennial Job-Hopping
I talk to a lot of people who worry about retaining Millennial employees. They are concerned that Millennials don't want to stay in any one job for long--that they will jump to a new job in a matter of months or just a y ...
What’s at the Heart of Every Organization?
Although every organization is unique, nearly all of them share a core approach that is based in one, single field: Engineering. Consider this simple definition of engineering: Engineering combines the fields of scie ...
New Must-Read White Paper on Lean Startup for Associations
Elizabeth Engel from Spark Consulting LLC has a great new white paper out on applying the Lean Startup methodology in the association environment. I only discovered Lean Startup when I heard Eric Ries (author of the book ...
Conflict Tip: People Want to Be Heard
One reason so many conflicts become "stuck" is that we think the conflict is only about the ideas involved. We forget that it's really about two (or more) human beings in a relationship. So as we get into it, we dive str ...
Next #CultureChat: Culture and Technology
Okay, I apologize for being one week late with Culture Chat--Maddie and I were with a client last Thursday so we couldn't pull it off. But we think this topic is worth waiting for, Culture and Technology: Technology doe ...
What Is the ROI of Your Culture?
Quick poll: do these statements accurately describe your organization? We have close to 100% employee engagement (as in your people literally couldn’t imagine working anywhere else) We charge more than our compet ...
What If There Were 100 Million Millennials? (Because There Are)
Warning: this is a fairly long post that delves into numbers somewhat deeply. But here's the good news: I've got some surprising revelations about the size of the different generations, so be patient and read through to ...