Asking questions is not built into the psychology of our society, and it’s unfortunate really. I mean, you tell me. How many times have you asked your partner or child – “well, did you ask?” How many times was the answer “no”? Exactly. Social norms have made it weird to ask too many questions of a stranger. We’re all so …
Gandhi as Your Employment Brand Writer
In today’s hot job market nearly all of us are trying to “build a better mousetrap so the world will beat a path to our door,” as the saying goes. We are all authoring our employment brand, and trying to one-up our competitors. And a lot of that work revolves around understanding and then documenting/describing our culture. Culture is such …
Improve Your HR Communication Skills
I’m a full-time writer, and I’ve been helping HR leaders and HR technology vendors communicate more effectively for many years. It’s the favorite part of my job. I love rethinking the way we interact with one another, and I want to share my advice with you. First of all, most of us mistakenly feel we have good communication skills. If …
HR in a TL;DR World
No one has any time for your nonsense. You know the acronym TL;DR, right? In case you are not familiar, I will save you 15 seconds of Googling. It stands for “Too long; didn’t read” and essentially means that an article, manual, set of instructions, whatever… failed to keep the interest of its intended reader long enough to actually inspire …