Ideas
Engaged employees are effective employees: They want to make a meaningful contribution
Recently I met with a group of HR managers. The topic of our conversation was leadership effectiveness and the investment in it.
The Three Pillars of Sales: ‘Relationships’ is not one of them
I've mentioned before that I spent the first 13 years of my sales training life doing joint calls with salespeople on their real accounts…but NOT as an artificial observer.
Corporate culture: The only truly sustainable competitive advantage
Inspiring top talent to join your organization offers significant benefits, including improving bottom line profitability. Hire right and you will bring out the best in others, creating a dynamic work environment. Make a bad hire, and watch energy drain from your organization and profits decline.
Timm champions integrity in the workplace
Laura Timm, vice president of corporate communications and public affairs at Briggs & Stratton Corp., tells young professionals to follow five guiding words: Integrity, balance, passion, voice and presentation.
Mount Mary alumna bequeaths $1.4 million to university
Mount Mary University has received a legacy gift of $1.4 million from alumna Joan Hetzel Iraneta, who graduated from the school in 1956 with degrees in English and art.
Trostel launches youth apprenticeship program
Lake Geneva-based Trostel, a custom rubber molding and compounding company, recently launched a manufacturing youth apprenticeship program in cooperation with GPS Education Partners, a nonprofit that provides immersive work-based education programs. The manufacturer began providing learning space and apprenticeship training to high school students at its Whitewater and Lake Geneva operations in September.
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Our Next Generation appoints new leader upon retirement of Dunn
After more than a decade of shaping students in Milwaukee's central city neighborhoods, Bob Dunn, president and CEO of Our Next Generation, Inc., has retired and turned the nonprofit over to newly appointed leader La Toya Sykes.
MANDI Award nominations due Monday
Local Initiatives Support Corporation's Milwaukee branch is making a final call for nominations for its 2015 MANDI Awards, which honor individuals, organizations and community projects improving central city neighborhoods.
Governor should plug Wisconsin’s brain drain
You would hardly know it from the campaign for governor, but Wisconsin has more than a brain drain; it has a brain hemorrhage.
BizTimes Media 2014 Giving Guide
BizTimes Media’s fourth annual Giving Guide offers southeastern Wisconsin’s business community an outlet to connect with area nonprofit organizations for philanthropic involvement.