Reduced expenses made easy and affordable with LED lighting retrofits
Replacing traditional lamps and controls to energy-efficient LED systems are one of the most affordable ways to lower your electric bill and sharpen your budget.
Stricter ACA enforcement will require attention to costs, detail
ACA regulations will continue to roll out in the coming years. That means greater enforcement, and noncompliant employers could face significant penalties.
Overcoming bias in the workplace
Bias and stereotyping are prominent topics as the U.S. presidential primary candidates — on both sides — try to appeal to various constituencies, fueling divisiveness in an already politically polarized environment. Many of us cringe at the bold comments, but perhaps we should also regard the situation as an opportunity for each of us to assess our attitudes and beliefs toward others.
Four leadership characteristics that build trust
Your trustworthiness is an asset you can’t be effective without. If the people you lead don’t fully trust you, they’ll hold back.
They’ll hesitate.
They’ll become isolationists.
People can’t do their best work when they’re focused on protecting themselves.
The Baby Boomer Exodus — a survival guide
Younger generations offer tremendous technological skills and introduce new ways of thinking to the workforce, but even the brightest batch of up-and-comers cannot soon match the know-how amassed by baby boomers over the past 50 years. Business owners are doing their companies a disservice if they neglect to capture boomers’ institutional knowledge, leadership experience, and sheer intellectual capital before they ride off into retirement, helmets or not.
The art of networking: How to work a room to meet the right movers and shakers
Scan just about any meeting announcement, be it from an organization, a school or a proposed seminar, and you will find a portion of the event dedicated to “networking.”
A buffer zone is an important part of your merger toolbox
One of our guest columnists wrote about his experience.
To retain the recognition of the other company, a transitional company was created and given a name similar to the previous one. That helped take care of the brand question, leaving the matter of current and new contracts to be resolved, along with, of course, building relationships between the two entities.
No pain, no change!
That is how you will discover if there is sufficient pain for them to consider making a change to you. No Pain! No Change!
What Human Relations needs to know about public relations and marketing
If you are a human resources executive, you are at the heart of any organization. After all, it is you and your position that are largely responsible for the success or failure of that organization. Unfortunately for many HR executives, their success largely can be determined by the actions (or inactions) of others around them […]
First woman to steer Jones Day Cleveland office points to its bedrock principles
When Heather Lennox earlier this year became partner-in-charge at Jones Day, she became the first woman to head the Cleveland office — but it wasn’t the first time she has made the headlines.