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The Case For A Flexible Workplace
About two years ago one of Cascade’s HR consultants attended a Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) meeting in Portland where she learned about the opportunity for Oregon employers to...
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Random Roundup – Please, Don’t Leave!
It seemed a little like whiplash last Friday to have stunningly horrible job numbers come out and then see articles on sweating new retention statistics, but we’re there, folks. For years we have...
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What Do You Wish Employees Knew About HR? (The “Bad” Decision Question)
In HR, we’re all too familiar with the scenario; circumstances that are confidential make it necessary for a decision that isn’t very popular in the workplace in the following weeks/months/years....
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Six Years Ago and One Big Mistake – You’re Just Lucky to Have a Job
Now that certain industries are seeing some recovery from the economic downturn, from a human resource perspective (and therefore a business perspective…I’ll get to that in a minute) there is one big...
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Coaches Corner: Make Weakness Irrelevant
We all have them. Weaknesses, that is. Things we just are not good at. Skillful managers put themselves and their employees in positions that maximize our strength zone so that these weaknesses become...
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The Three Things You Need to Know About Employee Relations
Employee relations has a reputation for being a catch all for anything HR related. I agree there is a lot that is included under the umbrella of employee relations, but I also believe it’s really only...
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What’s Employee Engagement Really Look Like?
There is a bounty of information on the definition employee engagement and what it looks like in the general sense, but what does it really look like? Through my very own eyeballs, what will I see?...
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The Impact of Clear Expectations
I once worked for a company that conducted employee performance appraisals without communicating clear goals in advance. The company was drastically underperforming compared to its industry. Within...
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7 Keys to Incentive Plan Success
When designing incentive plans, there are seven important actions organizations must take to help assure that incentive compensation plans are successful in achieving the results for which they were...
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Even Miracles Take a Little Time
Don’t expect Cinderella to be a princess tomorrow, but definitely invite her to see that as a possibility. Moving employees to higher levels of engagement is usually a gradual process. Despite what...
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How Your Awesomeness May Become a Workplace Problem
What? How can my awesomeness be a problem? My awesomeness is awesome. It is the other guy’s lack of awesomeness that is the problem. OK. This one is a little complex but give me a couple of paragraphs...
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Goals – The Key to Employee Success
When done correctly, performance appraisal is an important management tool that contributes to employee engagement and customer satisfaction, and has a measurable impact on the bottom line. Based on...
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Focus on Strengths
If you are like most, you are especially conscious of weaknesses in yourself and others. It’s built in our wiring, our insecurity. But we get much further by focusing on strengths. People who say...
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What Would Your Baseball Card Look Like?
Here we are in the middle of another October. For some this means watching baseball. Have you ever looked, I mean really looked, at baseball cards? I saw some research the other day that suggested...
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The Joy of Being on a Great Team
Can you measure a work team’s awesomeness?Or do you just know it when you see it? I am convinced that both are true. Having been part of a lot of teams… sports teams, work teams, neighborhood...
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Extraordinary Groups
Would you like to build a spectacular team? One great place to start is to uncover positive memories of your potential team members. In the book entitled Extraordinary Groups: How Ordinary Teams...
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What Employees Need
Decade after decade when supervisors were polled and asked to rank ten dimensions of work in terms of their importance to employees, they guessed wrong. It wasn’t “Good wages,” “Promotion and growth”...
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Can You Motivate Low Energy Employees?
Even very smart people assume that employees are either motivated or not, that no one can change the way they were born and bred. But that’s not true. Leaders listen carefully and probe. They are open...
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3 Ways to Navigate Millennial Entitlement
Regardless of whether I’m training, coaching or consulting, I regularly hear the same complaint about Millennials in the workforce: They’re so entitled. Though initially I jumped on the bandwagon (I’m...
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Ten Factors in Making an Effective Transition
Leading your organization in a competitive environment requires innovation and navigating transition effectively. Some factors you can control — or at least significantly influence — while others you...
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