march madness

MARCH MADNESS TALENT LESSONS: Slapping Players is Just Part of My Leadership Charm!

Kris Dunn Audacious Ideas, Culture, Engagement and Satisfaction, Good HR, Kris Dunn, Leadership, Recruitment Marketing

I’m starting this post with an animated GIF below.  Email subscribers need to click through to see it.  Do that now if you need to, because this post is based off the visual, and it’s worth it. Watch the GIF as it loops over and over. It’s from 2014 in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, with Connecticut coach Kevin Ollie turning …

Don’t Hide Your Crazy

Kathy Rapp Communication, Culture, Employee Communications, Employee Engagement, Employment Branding and Culture, Engagement and Satisfaction, Kathy Rapp, Leadership, Onboarding

“Go and fix your makeup, well, it’s just a break up, Run and hide your crazy and start actin’ like a lady…” Miranda Lambert sings about it, there are t-shirts galore made in honor of it… and yet it’s a concept not readily exposed by corporate HR. Hide your crazy. Exposed? Why would HR want to bare their (collectively speaking) crazy? …

March Madness For Learning & Development

Dan Carusi Dan Carusi, Leadership, Learning and Development

I look forward to the NCAA Tournament and March Madness every year. Who doesn’t?  The close games, upsets, excitement, Cinderella stories and just good basketball.  Okay, with the exception of my wife, who by now has realized that two minutes left in the game really means 30. I diligently completed my bracket picks and anxiously waited for the opening rounds, …