You’ve noticed. Business has radically changed. No longer can you sit back and enjoy increased revenues from the same products, year after year. You need to do something different. Maybe you need to find a new market for your products. Or perhaps you can find a way to solve new and emerging problems for your existing market.
You ruminate on it. You decide to host a “town hall” meeting, in which you stro...
I have two subject areas that are of significant interest to me that I have written about on various occasions over the last several years. One of these areas involves the demographic surveying that must be done for applicants and employees. The other involves the availability analyses that must be a part of affirmative action plans produced under Executive Order 11246. Today, we’re going to return to this later top...
Part 1 of this article focused on the important role that 'disposition codes' play in the employer's ability to perform its own meaningful adverse impact analyses and the employer's ability to defend an allegation of discrimination/demand for back pay based on the OFCCP's analyses of the data it provides…that is, the importance of Counting the Right Numbers.
In my experience, most disposition codes do...
Since the beginning of the #MeToo movement in October 2017, Congress and state and local lawmakers have introduced a series of legislation aimed at eliminating sexual harassment and abuse in the workplace. In 2018 alone, over 125 bills have been introduced by states to eliminate workplace misconduct. We expect to see continuing efforts by Congress, states, and localities to offer legislative solutions.
On December 22,...
On May 1, 2018, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs issued a Town Hall Action Plan (the 'Plan'). The OFCCP's announcement regarding the Plan describes it as the result of participant feedback and insight provided during three Compliance Assistance Town Halls held in 2017. The Plan states that such feedback and insight 'resulted in the identification of three general areas of focus: training, communicati...
One of your best sales representatives was injured last year in an accident at home. His injuries were not very severe and he returned to work after a month of leave. However, his job performance started slipping and he began calling in sick frequently. Then you noticed that he appeared disheveled and sometimes seemed confused when you tried to talk with him. You had no choice but to discipline him according to your perfo...
Even if you are the best coach in the world, if the person you are coaching shouldn’t be coached, the coaching isn’t going to work. My friend Chris Coffey, who along with Frank Wagner, leads the Stakeholder Centered Coaching® certification in the U.S. and has trained thousands of coaches himself, understands this and it is one of the first things he teaches in every workshop. He puts it to his students very...
We all know the “it” words for leadership qualities today, those buzzwords that pop up over and over to describe the qualities leader aspire to. Frankly, I’m totally over words like “ninja” and “guru.” But there are several words that are common in today’s management vernacular that really do describe great leaders. If you’re a leader or aspiring to be one, I hope you&rs...
Are you frustrated with your boss or irritated at co-workers' annoying habits? Do some customers' behaviors infuriate you? How do you react in these situations?
In today's workplace there are varied people with diverse perspectives and behaviors. Disagreements occur because people hear, see and interpret things differently. To resolve disagreements with people who have d...