Human Resources & Management
The unexpected request
How do you respond when an employee walks into your office and asks you for an unscheduled raise?
Great leaders accommodate healthy work/life balance
During the past 30 days, the plea for work/life balance has been emerging as a pattern.
The ‘Undercover Boss’ and other lessons from reality TV
Have you watched “Undercover Boss,” the popular reality TV show?
BizTimes invites employers to attend Health Care Reform Forum
Employers and human resource managers throughout southeastern Wisconsin are invited to attend the BizTimes Media Health Care Reform Breakfast Forum, which will take place on the morning of Friday, Sept. 13, at the new Milwaukee Marriott Downtown.
Mayer’s reforms boost web traffic at Yahoo
Yahoo! Inc. attracted more U.S. visitors than Google Inc. during July for the first time since May 2011, indicating that turnaround efforts by chief executive officer Marissa Mayer, a Wausau native, are gaining traction.
Paranet to host emergency preparedness event
Milwaukee manufacturing trade organization The Paranet Group will host Crisis Communication—What Keeps You Up at Night? from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. Thursday at its headquarters, 10000 Innovation Drive in Milwaukee.
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The compassionate leader: Enhance employee loyalty and engagement
"In separateness lies the world's great misery, in compassion lies the world's true strength."
— Buddha
Who are we?: Use assessments to identify strengths
Question:
"The president of our company has asked me to identify an assessment tool that we can use to explore one another’s strengths within the leadership team. He suggested we use the DISC instrument, which one of his colleagues from his TEC group used with his leadership team. What are your suggestions?"
Organizations for young professionals in Milwaukee
Networking, social events, professional engagements and civic opportunities to help Milwaukee retain young talent.
Meet Generation Y
Eventually, the members of Generation Y will be the customers, co-workers and supervisors of your company. That fact is demographically inevitable.