Management - Leadership

Are you looking for a more relaxed, simplistic approach to time management? The Pomodoro technique may be just what you're looking for, especially if you're a creative type.

Work for twenty-five minutes, take a break for five, repeat: this is the premise of the Pomodoro technique, a simple time management technique that skips minutely planned and prioritized task lists in favor of a simple, frugal approach to productivity.

JS:  I have for years taught HR Professionals that learning how to "fire" someone was close in importance to learning how to "hire" -- the connection to Red Scott's "Hire Smart or Manage Tough" is clear.

Perhaps the most difficult part of any manager's job is telling a subordinate that he can no longer stay with the company — that he's been "fired," "let go," "dismissed," or otherwise taken off the payroll.

"You're the best!" the four American Idol contestants cried to their voice coach Patty after narrowly escaping elimination, "We couldn't have done it without you!

Top-performing individuals don't instantly become top-performing managers. To succeed, new managers require time, training and guidance.

How is your pitch being developed? Are you ready for your pitch? This past weekend I became fascinated with the TV show The Pitch on AMC. The Pitch gives an inside view of advertising agencies.

Instead of mindlessly running with the herd, employees should identify criteria for leading their lives and have the wherewithal to follow through, writes columnist Marshall Goldsmith

Last week I had the pleasure of co-presenting with Thad Peterson the results of the Globoforce Spring 2012 Mood Tracker survey (which tracks the perceptions of full-time, currently employed U.S. workers).

Another year, another Total Rewards conference ended. Also another chance to indulge in my favorite post-conference pastime, looking back and trying to tease out key themes and takeaways.

While celebrated upon their return from active duty, veterans pose a variety of challenges for employers when reentering the workforce.

I love people who aren’t afraid to stand up and speak their mind (yes, that means you Laurie Ruettimann). And that’s why this survey of British employees is interesting to get into.

In the same way that a bicycle is wobbly when it's standing still and becomes more stable the faster you pedal, the same is true with personnel issues at work. It's when the organization is standing still that people start to squabble.

Virtually every corporate and academic leadership development program is founded on the same model — we call it the formulaic model.

Over the past three years, the number of employees at HubSpot has grown by over 800 percent. No company experiences that pace of growth without hitting some cultural speed bumps along the way.

“When I lead my portion of the orientation, I do not have the heart to tell them and I can’t look them in the eye. This is a horrible place.

Design is a hot topic now, spurred in no small part by Steve Jobs’ legacy (certainly that was one of my key takeaways from the Walter Isaacson biography of him). So is innovation.

Log on to your Facebook page, look at the column on the right, and you will see ads that seem uniquely relevant to you. Same for me: My page has an ad directing me to a site where I can check in on a particular high school graduating class from 1983. Why 1983? Because that’s when I graduated. How does Facebook know this? Because I told it. Below that ad is one for Gordon Ramsay’s Los Angeles restaurant. Why?

If you want to hire the best, you have to go after the best because, on average, only about 17 percent of the workforce is actively looking for a job (and many of those are people you probably would …...

As I paced back and forth, reviewing one last time what I wanted to say for my closing keynote,“The Hidden Gift Your Gen Y Employees Are Offering You,” my hotel room began to shake.

The head of the Secret Service, Mark Sullivan, testified in front of a congressional panel on Wednesday about the scandal created by the agents and prostitutes before a presidential visit to Colombia. He basically testified that while some agents did some dumb things, there were no systemic problems.

Count me in as one of those who believes the “open” office environment makes it a lot harder to get any real work done.

Before you invest time and money into improving teamwork skills there are some necessary questions to ask; these will directly impact your success in this area. Do we have a clearly defined culture?