In a previous post, I talked a bit about what managers can do before an employee starts to help ensure their success. Now let’s focus on what you can do after they start work to improve onboarding. The first 100 days are an important time and they can slip by before you know it. Best [...]

A few simple ways to improve onboarding. Starting a new job is a high stakes time – for the new person as well as the employer. Everyone wants things to go well and usually they do. But what can you do, as an employer/manager, to improve onboarding and make sure your new hire is a [...]

I’ve been thinking about what companies focus on improving workplace communication and what companies don’t. It’s probably true that most – if not all – CEOs would say they value good communication and want their employees to be well-informed about company strategies. What they do about it is another matter. The recession has only complicated [...]

It’s been just over six months since we launched JomoWire and began talking with you about feedback in the workplace.  On several occasions, and particularly when conversing with people who defend the performance review as an effective feedback tool, I’ve been known to predict that the performance review will be dead by 2020. I would [...]

One of the greatest challenges for managers who’ve recently made new hires is to stay engaged enough with the employee to tell them as soon as possible when something goes off-track. It’s totally understandable that a manager would rather a) give a new employee “the benefit of the doubt” and b) stick their head in [...]

Kristine and I drove to Tahoe on Sunday with her friend Corinne for a skiing/boarding day trip. The weather got nasty, but we felt pretty secure navigating snow and ice in my Audi Q7  (super car!). Since the mountain drive was slow but steady, we had lots of morning car time to talk about this [...]

The New York Times Magazine had a piece on Facebook this weekend. Writer Peggy Orenstein was worried that “growing up on Facebook” would restrict the younger generations’ ability to morph throughout their lives the way she did growing up, leaving one persona behind for another as she grew and changed. And I just saw this [...]

Have you checked out BrazenCareerist.com? It’s a Gen-Y professional community generating very compelling dialogue. Makes me envious. The progressive opinions about transparency, fairness, balance and fulfillment are inspiring. The brazen careerists post about the kind of workplace we should all be working toward. I loved this post about ways Gen-Y will change the work world. [...]