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When faced with major change, employees are often bombarded with messages.  Some messages may be interpreted in a positive light; too often though, even the positive are interpreted as doom and gloom. Regardless of the message, or the deliver medium – face-to-face, email, snail mail, Twitter, web-conferencing, whatever, all messages produce an emotional response – reaction […]

Often I’m asked to deliver a developmental program to increase productivity, to improve moral, to reduce tension – in other words to “fix them”!  Too often the desire to “fix them” is hidden under the term “motivate!” In such situations, the client believes motivation is a balm, an elixir that once applied to or consumed by the workforce […]

Two or three times over the past few months, clients have asked me if profiles or assessments could be used during the selection and hiring process.  Based on my experiences with the products I normally use, my quick answer would have been “no” since none would pass the Department of Labor litmus tests for pre-employment. But […]