Hello? Bueller? Bueller? Anyone? Anyone? Maybe I’m dating myself with a movie reference to “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” but I remember the teacher in that movie taking attendance at the front of the room, and how he tried…

In the brave new world of hiring, Millennials are often interviewing a potential employer as much as they are being interviewed. Why should we hire you? often becomes why should I work for you? Traditional recruiting is not…

Everything in moderation – that can apply to eating or drinking or working. Yes, working. If you find yourself slaving away for hours without end each day, there comes a point where either you will resent your situation,…

TLDR. This bit of online jargon stands for Too Long Didn’t Read. You definitely don’t want that applied to your emails, business or otherwise. It could lead to lost sales or, in extreme cases, getting your business emails…

Look around your office. Is everyone the same? I doubt it. There is a likely a mix of genders, races, ethnicities and backgrounds. But they all have to work together. It’s great that we can all work together,…

How does the saying go? It’s something like ‘I would rather cry in a Mercedes than laugh on the bus.’ This is just another version of the old time-worn saw ‘Money doesn’t buy happiness.’ Well, neither does poverty,…

The pictures are everywhere – refugees fleeing their homelands for safety, to the chance of a better life. Some pictures are galvanizing, like the one of the three-year-old Syrian boy face down in the surf on a Turkish…

Do you cause congestion in the workplace? Are you a bottleneck? Does not having control over every little thing that your staff works on make your skin crawl? Is the only way for things to get done correctly…

A look around the Velsoft office reveals just what you’d expect: traditional work stations and chairs. Except for two oddities tucked shamefully in the corner. One is blue, the other purple. These bent-wood yoga chairs are the relics…

“People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along?” Rodney King asked that in the spring of 1992 as Los Angeles suffered through riots following the acquittal of four police officers who were charged…

Let’s look at a few numbers. 25, 49, 35 The first number tells us that one-quarter of Chief Human Resources Officers and HR leaders lie awake at night worrying about employee engagement and retention. Twenty-five percent, that’s a…

There’s a street near our office that I cross daily to get to work. The other day I saw a driver lock his brakes and almost rear-end a car that had stopped for me at a marked crosswalk….