It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Our personality types are hung on a wall and being shared outside our division. Every year over the last five years, the head of my division has conducted an off-site retreat for my team of 15. The primary focus of the retreat is to take personality tests and figure out how our different work styles mesh. Even five years later, I actually enjoy this exercise as it gives me much to think about in how I approach members of my team with different personality types. ” 2. We provide recurring services to customers. short answers MORE >>

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Another podcast in the can! Fast and furious they are coming now said my inner Yoda. Wowsers. It was just last week when Trish McFarlane and I talked about how she wished someone had told her “creating” a job was a thing. Today we’re lucky enough to talk with Michael Nagorski, a Senior Consultant at MHI Global , a TwentyEighty Company. but the goal is to connect with other professionals and talk about what they wished they had been told early in their careers that might have made big difference in their career path. Michael volunteered to talk. MORE >>

Need an employee and company friendly way to keep employee job descriptions, goals, and plans up-to-date without Human Resources intervention? Consider a job plan. Owned by the employee in conjunction with and negotiated with his or her manager, the job plan solves the most frequent problems organizations experience with job descriptions. Find out more about a job plan MORE >>

How to Bridge Generation Differences by Focusing on the Individual Logic often rules the workplace. We look at our systems, our programs and our people and want them all to fit very nicely into the well-defined boxes that we create for them. Life is easier when there is no drama, no chaos, no problems. The secret hope of our organizations’ managers is that everyone does what he or she is told, plays along nicely with others, stays motivated and produces work with little supervision. They want things to be simple. Blogs MORE >>