Unless you have been living under rock, you know the Brett Favre story.  Skilled, but aging quarterback is released by Green Bay, which has named sub-divisions after him, a couple of years back.  The Jets, those poor Jets, beg him to play which he does, which is sometimes painful to watch.  The old guy can throw, [...]

Struggling to find a suitable topic for this article, a tried-and-true creativity technique came in handy: using random inputs to trigger an idea. I grabbed a folder of notes from presentations I’ve attended the past few years. The first reference was to a story about an art patron who asked surrealist artist Salvador Dali if [...]

What does Glowan and TalentCulture have in common?
Well, Glowan is the Old English word for “to glow”.
And TalentCulture is all about talent acquisition and culture fit and so much more.
Glowan is the name of The Glowan Consulting Group, a firm that transforms individuals and organizations utilizing its L3 Leadership Learning programs and executive coaching activities.
TalentCulture, [...]

Crowdsourcing is using an open call for tasks, information or data collection mostly through new media technology. Many times, a passionate crowd is much more powerful than an individual, business or closed community.

In part one, I finished with:  The most successful recruiters today are part career advisors, part psychologists, part sales consultants.  They understand the value game-changers can bring to their clients’ companies.
Here is how my firm typically engages, develops and recruits game-changing talent:
Weeks 1-2:  After receiving a search assignment, we ask our clients if there are [...]

The Internet really upended the corporate communications industry. Though PR professionals used to jeer at advertising pros for being message control freaks, and marketers used to impress boardrooms with fancypants charts and graphs and make the creatives and spindoctors look as if they failed high school algebra, at the end of the day, everyone got along. Everyone knew their job.

At this point, you’re probably on Twitter. Tweeting seems easy enough, but there is actually a steep learning curve when it comes to knowing how to tweet effectively. Whether you’re tweeting every five seconds or your account has been sitting idle with eight tweets since last November, you can always use Twitter better. You know [...]

Flexible, adaptable and innovative companies require a different kind of leader, those with a passion for discovering how to do what no one else is doing and doing it better than anyone else. twenty-first century leadership is one in which all the power to make change is no longer concentrated at the top. The command-and-control [...]

Despite what Gen Y wants to believe, there was a point in time we did not use Twitter. I like to consider those days, “The Dark Age.” It was a time that we did not know the information as it happened. We did not produce content and share it with the world. We did not [...]

People ask me all the time, why did I create #HireFriday? I thought FollowFriday outlived its usefulness. I realized it would be better to take the time and energy we invest in promoting our gainfully employed friends, and put that energy into helping an unemployed person instead. What started out as a lonely tweet: “Instead of FollowFriday, let’s tweet HireFriday and put our friends and family members back to work; has mushroomed into a movement that now spans the globe.

Calming one’s nerves and regaining positivity and forward-momentum are fundamental to an optimistically focused job search. Though assuaged nerves and a focus on positivity are essential to a job search in a sea of opportunity, many people remain landlocked, shackled by negativity and with no intention of changing.

It’s all pretty contrived, thus “Work of Art” doesn’t yield major revelations about creativity as much as refreshers worth considering in your creative and innovative pursuits, especially in the workplace. Here are five that stand out:

As digital workers, we spend a lot of time collaborating online. TalentCulture has previously featured several articles by the great Jeff Wilfong and Chris Jones highlighting some of the high-level processes and theories that dictate successful collaboration. Now, it’s time to get back to the basics.

Are you putting most of your effort into the wrong things? Is 80% of your time resulting in 20% of your results? Do you believe you are spending most of your time on low yield activities? Learning how to work the 80/20 rule is the secret to a more satisfying life. Here are seven uses for the 80/20 rule: