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- Why a poor performer makes the rest of the team want to cry
- I worked with the late Bob Artner VP of TechRepublic years ago at another company. We were among six managers who led production teams. Due to company reorgs and personnel issues, this company made staffing changes between teams pretty often. I remember sitting in Bob's office one day when another...
- Tags: toni bowers, Management, Leadership, Firing, Company Culture
- Blog posts 2007-07-31
- Could your blog cost you your job?
- A recent issue of Workforce Management talked about the growing risk to companies of employees who misuse e-mail and blogs. In particular, it sites a survey conducted by Forrester Consulting and Proopoint that indicated blogs and message boards have become a growing source of risk for companies."More than 19 percent...
- Tags: toni bowers, Company Culture
- Blog posts 2007-07-26
- Could your employer fine you for being unhealthy?
- Some companies exercise a tax benefit from offering comprehensive wellness programs to their employees. Some even use financial incentives to encourage their employees to participate in wellness programs. But due to final HIPAA rules the federal government issued in December 2006, some companies are looking at a new angle: They...
- Tags: Company Culture, Workplace
- Blog posts 2007-07-25
- The five worst companies to work for
- Is it a coincidence that four out of five of the companies that made Edugree's list of the worst companies to work for are also, at least in my opinion, the worst companies to do business with? Decide for yourself-here are the companies that made the top five.Home Depot-At one...
- Tags: Management, Company Culture
- Blog posts 2007-07-12
- Best place to work in IT
- In yesterday's blog I talked about three IT positions that were listed in the twenty Top Jobs by Money Magazine. Today, I thought I'd pass along the results of Computerworld's Best Places to Work for IT. Companies that were nominated for the distinction "received a 100-question survey asking about their...
- Tags: toni bowers, Job Satisfaction, Company Perks, Company Culture
- Blog posts 2007-06-29
- How to be the new employee
- When I first came to work at TechRepublic, I had a lot of years of IT publishing experience under my belt. The woman who hired me was excited by that and thought I could bring a great deal of insight into the operations at TechRepublic.For the first four or five...
- Tags: toni bowers, Company Culture, Communication, Career Development, Workplace Strategy
- Blog posts 2007-06-12
- Most managers die with their mouths open.
- I believe that the art of asking questions should be considered a fundamental skill for any leaders. Success without it will be short term at best.For a while it seemed that my premise was a given; however lately I seem to be running into more execs who are more concerned they will look...
- Tags: Performance, Workplace Strategy, Teams, Success, Reputation, Morale, Mentoring, Management, Leadership, Company Culture, Coaching, Career, Boss
- Blog posts 2007-06-01
- Should you accept a management position?
- I recently came across a work forum for engineering professionals. One of the members was weighing the decision of whether to accept a management position in his company. His fear is that his performance as a manager would depend on other people rather than just himself as it currently is....
- Tags: Management, Leadership, Job Satisfaction, Company Culture, Career Development
- Blog posts 2007-05-17
- What really counts - good customer service or the lowest price?
- Recently, more than 400 companies were examined by MSN Money for their customer service efforts - and six out of the worst 10 were communications providers. Among the nations bottom 10 - cable providers, wireless carriers and one satellite company dominated the studys results. Here are some of the...
- Tags: Workplace Strategy, Success, Reputation, Performance, Mentoring, Leadership, Job Satisfaction, General, Company Culture, Communication
- Blog posts 2007-05-09
- 7 levels of delegation
- Are you a micromanager? Or maybe one of those generalists whos so vague giving direction that your staff never know exactly what to do? Clients frequently ask if delegation is a style thing that can be learned. Or is it an art thing which is more intuitive;...
- Tags: Workplace Strategy, Women In It, Teams, Success, Power, Performance, Morale, Mentoring, Management, Leadership, Job Satisfaction, General, Company Culture, Coaching, Co-workers, Career, Boss
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- Is stress incurable for IT pros?
- I found this in an article on the PubMed web site: "In a study of the bodily, mental, and psychophysiological reactions of employees involved in the design of advanced telecommunications systems and of office employees using regular video display technology, several stress-related psychosomatic disorders have been identified." Those disorders include:Sleep...
- Tags: Workplace, toni bowers, publishing gal, Job Satisfaction, Company Culture, Career
- Blog posts 2007-05-01
- 4 outdated ideas. Or maybe not.
- Here are a few things to "noodle" today:1. Does it really matter if a leader has a strong sense of integrity?In a study done by Fast Company magazine last year, 1665 respondents were asked about the importance of ethics in company leaders in todays business climate.The good news: 95% of...
- Tags: Office Politics, Morale, Mentoring, Leadership, Job Satisfaction, General, Company Culture, Communication, Coaching, Co-workers, Career Development, Career, Boss
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
- The whys and hows of moonlighting
- According to the latest report form the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, In 2002, 5.3 percent of U.S. workers across the nation held more than one job. (The bureau defines multiple jobholders as "employed persons who had either two or more jobs as a wage and salary worker, were self-employed...
- Tags: Workplace Strategy, toni bowers, publishing gal, Job Satisfaction, Company Culture, Career
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
- Corporate policies: The best and the worst
- Liz Ryan, in her column for BusinessWeek, keeps a list of the best and worst corporate policies that she has encountered while being a consultant. This month, she added referral bonus programs to her list of Best Corporate Policies and anti-moonlighting policies to her list of Worst Corporate Policies. Weve...
- Tags: toni bowers, publishing gal, General, Discipline, Company Perks, Company Culture
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- Got 180 seconds?
- In my last posting I discussed a couple of ways that any meeting participant - at any level - can make that meeting more effective for themself and for the organization. Not surprisingly, I heard from some people that they are "meetingd out". They told me that with...
- Tags: Performance, Meetings, Leadership, Job Satisfaction, General, Employees, Coworkers, Company Culture, Communication, Coaching, Boss
- Blog posts 2007-04-19
- Does anyone take notes in your meetings?
- Last week I led a management development program for a large TV broadcasting network. During the course of the discussion, we landed on the issue of meetings. Of course this is a subject that is discussed all the time. And most people have opinions about them in every...
- Tags: Workplace Strategies, Teams, Success, Project Management, Power, Performance, Meetings, Management, Company Culture, Communication, Coaching, Co-workers, Career, Boss
- Blog posts 2007-04-12
- Should we trust people to manage their own job life?
- More and more companies are moving toward a work-scheduling system designed to allow individuals at all levels to determine what days, hours, even weeks they will be working on the job or at the office.All evidence points to this becoming the way of the future. Its been well established within...
- Tags: Workplace Strategies, Teams, Success, Staffing, Staff, Reputation, Personnel, Personal Development, Performance, Office Politics, Morale, Mentoring, Management, Leadership, Job Satisfaction, Hiring, General, Employees, Discipline, Company Perks, Company Culture, Coaching, Co-workers, Career, Boss
- Blog posts 2007-04-05
- The best managers? They're not afraid of looking dumb.
- Ever noticed that some managers believe they are supposed to know everything about their area of responsibility? They dont usually last very long. Often their organizations dont either.Great managers and leaders realize that they can never know everything. And theyre comfortable with that. Poor managers...
- Tags: leader
- Blog posts 2007-03-23
- All in favor of workday naps, say Aye!
- The Better Sleep Council, through a stress and sleep survey, found that 65% of Americans are losing sleep due to stress. And a recent poll by the National Sleep Foundation found that over 80% of American adults link inadequate sleep with impaired daytime performance. Thats a sobering, though not surprising,...
- Tags: Company Culture, Company Perks, General, Humor, Morale, Performance, publishing gal, toni bowers
- Blog posts 2007-03-20
- Managing Up. Not the same as Sucking Up.
- Most of todays more-thoughtful managers believe that the best way to improve their results is to ensure that their subordinates, or team members, are working at their own best levels. Consequently, a great deal of time is spent working with their folks as individuals, or in team meetings. By...
- Tags: Boss, Career, Career Development, Co-workers, Coaching, Company Culture, Job Satisfaction, Leadership, Management, Meetings, Mentoring, Office Politics, Reputation, Women In It, Workplace Strategies
- Blog posts 2007-03-09
