Inside Verizon University
May 28, 2008
Some companies offer tuition assistance for employees wanting to go back to school. Others will allow employees time away to continue their education. Verizon does both — and brings the school to them. The Verizon Wireless call center in Utah, near... Read more...
StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 18 - Diverse Models
May 28, 2008
StrategyDriven Podcasts focus on the tools and techniques executives and managers can use to improve their organization’s alignment and accountability to ultimately achieve better results. These podcasts elaborate on the best practice and warning flag... Read more...
The AppGap Reviews Six Disciplines
May 27, 2008
Bill Ives, a contributing editor to The AppGap, recently interviewed Six Disciplines founder and CEO Gary Harpst in his review Six Disciplines - Providing Integrated Consulting, Coaching, and Software for Small Businesses According to Bill, "Six Disciplines... Read more...
Complain to Upper Management?
May 27, 2008
From the Ask Tom mailbag: Question: How do you handle Managers who take credit for your work (my immediate manager and his boss)? My immediate manager does not know the job well and depends on everyone for support. The operation has downfalls due to... Read more...
American Workplaces: Through Foreign Eyes
May 27, 2008
We spend a lot of time thinking about how other countries are different than the U.S. But what about reversing the tables and thinking about how the U.S. is different from other countries? That’s what this article that I read in the Hartford Courant... Read more...
Team Building Across the Globe
May 27, 2008
It’s hard to feel chummy with a coworker whom you’ve never met and just don’t know. It used to be gathering around the proverbial watercooler (or coffee maker) where people could share gossip and interests, but when you are based in... Read more...
Cubes & Crayons . . . A Perfect Match?
May 27, 2008
Oh my Lord . . . if only I lived in California. Have you been there? Struggling to pay attention to a conference call while feeding one child and trying to convince the other that watching a movie — any movie at all — is the most fun thing... Read more...
Passive or Proactive Marketing?
May 27, 2008
One way to think about your marketing is whether it's passive or proactive. That is, are you just sitting there, waiting for clients to come knocking on your door or are you getting out there and doing the knocking? There are many marketing activities... Read more...
Effective Meetings Behavior Part 5 - Posture
May 26, 2008
We’re all in meetings all the time, right? So how come there’s not an instruction manual? We all complain about them. But no one seems able or willing to do something about it. We will. We shared - 3 years ago - our recommendations on... Read more...
Paying New Employees to Quit
May 26, 2008
Training new employees and then paying them to quit, sounds pretty bizarre; Zappos is not afraid of doing things differently. Why Zappos Pays New Employees to Quit - And You Should Too: Zappos sells shoes—lots of them—over the Internet. The company... Read more...
