"Nobody is crying a river for an investment banker's stay-at-home wife. But I often think, if it’s this hard for us, how the hell are...

Healthy conflict, or what I refer to as creative friction, is characterized by 1) clear, candid dialogue and 2) robust, open debate. Lora...

Apparently, it's National Dog Day. Fortunately, we love dogs!

On behalf of the Workforce Development Board of Central Ohio, we completed a study to find out what happened to women whose job...

Applegate Talent Strategies we quoted in a recent Business First article titled, "How to Keep Workers From Joining the Great...

This article originally appeared in the Columbus Dispatch on April 7, 2022 and posted at Dispatch.com Two years after the pandemic...

In case you missed it, the results from the latest Gallup survey on engagement is out. The bad news: employee engagement is down. And the...

The Pay Gap for Women Starts Early ... and With a Responsibility Gap Female managers are often told they just need to demand more pay;...

Have you ever stopped to consider why the jobs that are typically occupied by women--jobs like taking care of children, taking care of...

When thinking about work, we often talk about VALUES. What are the company's VALUES? What words are painted on the walls or featured on...

Did you see the recent "Saturday Essay" in the Wall Street Journal titled, The Real Meaning 0f Freedom at Work? Ooo, we've had some...

The so-called War for Talent rages on. And the Great Resignation continues. What are employers to do? We advise our clients to build --...

If you hire people because you like them, you make bad hiring decisions. What if I told you the #1 mistake hiring managers make in an...

It's all over the news these days. Employers, some of them anyway, are moving toward requiring their employees to get vaccinated. As the...

Have you been on the interstate recently? I hadn’t. Traveling the Pennsylvania Turnpike to a client site in Eastern Pennsylvania last...

As Simon Sinek says, A team is not a group of people who work together. A team is a group of people who trust each other. Above all else,...

This year, lots of companies have been debating whether to "rainbow" their logo for Pride month. It's part of their ongoing efforts...

As we head into Pride Week, it's a good time to talk about tactics employers can and should take to support their transgender employees....

What is the scariest question you can ask your employees? The kind of question you don't want to ask because you're afraid to know the...

I respond to the article, “Should employers ask for a previous salary,” in the March 30 edition of The Dispatch. As a consultant and...

Many of our clients tell us they are frustrated and confused. They want to increase their "diversity hiring," but too few candidates of...

You've invested in sending your people to training. That's great! But it's not enough. Spending a few minutes with your employee after...

Post-pandemic, flexibility over where they work will be a basic component when workers consider the “employment deal” Who knew working...

From a position description ... listed under Desired Personal Characteristics: "Strong work ethic with a high degree of energy." As...