by Jamie Notter | Nov 1, 2012 | Culture, Humanize, Leadership
Nearly two years ago, my friend Jeff De Cagna wrote a series of posts for ASAE’s blog (remember Acronym!?) about Umair Haque’s book, The New Capitalist Manifesto. Jeff started the series with a point about disruption. Apparently that’s the question...
by Jamie Notter | Oct 31, 2012 | Change, Culture, Humanize
So I am back from my whirlwind, three-city tour last week (Phoenix, Toronto, Chicago), which explains my lack of blogging. I had a fabulous time at three very different events. Monday I was speaking at the Organization Development Network’s annual meeting. These...
by Jamie Notter | Oct 16, 2012 | Announcements, Humanize, Managing People
We don’t take the orientation process nearly as seriously as we should. And even when we take it seriously, we tend to focus on administrative details. We make sure people have the HR forms and employee manuals. That’s all good, but does it help the new...
by Jamie Notter | Oct 4, 2012 | Announcements, Humanize
Next Tuesday Maddie and I will be doing a FREE one-hour webinar in partnership with NTEN, the Nonprofit Technology Network. In fact, one of NTEN’s staff members–Amy Ward– will be delivering the webinar with us. Maddie and I will cover some of the...
by Jamie Notter | Oct 3, 2012 | Humanize, Learning
Do you value learning? Or is it really just the “idea” of learning something new that is valued? This was an interesting question posed by Cameron Norman in a blog post about how “serious” we are about learning. Many of us certainly say we love...
by Jamie Notter | Sep 20, 2012 | Culture, Humanize, Managing People
You might as well. Because according to the research report put out by Towers Watson, only about one third of employees (globally) are highly engaged in their jobs. They surveyed 32,000 people to come to that conclusion, so these data are nothing to sneeze at. Okay, I...
