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They pushed the cleaning carts into the office hallway at the end of the day. They emptied trash cans, wiped down doorways and cleaned office windows, vacuumed the rugs and then moved on to the bathrooms, sharing something in Spanish and laughing. Right when I left for home and needed to use the bathroom. At [...]

If you haven’t noticed, TalentCulture.com has been going through a lot of changes. We’re introducing a new editorial calendar, we’re hard at work on a media kit and the core team is working on a redesign! Why not introduce a new column at the same time? While it’s not consistent yet, we’ve gotten a lot [...]

Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared on TLNT.com Maybe you missed it in the end-of-the-year rush, but late last month, I was a guest on TotalPicture Radio With Peter Clayton, and we talked about a lot of different things concerning HR, talent management, the news trends of 2011, and of course, TLNT. If you didn’t [...]

Dear Job Seeker,   Hi there, it’s me, the organizational psychologist with whom you’ll be spending the next few hours. I know that you’re nervous and that I’m all that stands between you and this next gig, but I’d like to give you a few pointers to help make this process less painful for both [...]

It’s like a bad high school movie — where one clique picks on another less popular clique. But in this movie, it’s not the popular kids who taunt the geeky ones. No, in this movie the still popular kids are traditional Annual Performance Reviews and the geeky aberrations are the pundits pushing to change the [...]

  Happy 2012. It’s a new year and gyms are crowded with earnest people committed to losing 20 pounds; bakery and donut sales are off; employees are promising themselves they’ll work smarter, not harder; forced cheeriness and politeness are on the rise. These behavior changes – most (Research tells us this btw. I hope yours last [...]

There was a great discussion, and at times, debate, on #TChat last week, all about Generation Z and the workplace.  It feels like we just learned about Gen Y and how to engage them in the workplace, and it’s already time to prepare for Gen Z! Most people consider Gen Z, also called “Digital Natives”, [...]

Foreword: I wrote this piece as part of a collaborative project with Crystal Miller; who was writing an article for MonsterThinking. The two of us have talked for ages about while there is much said & written about discrimination due to race, religion, disability, and gender in general; the bias for & against beauty is one that’s often overlooked in the world of work. You can see her article on MonsterThinking.Com, “Beauty at Work: How Physical Appearance Impacts Job Search & Careers” here.

“So, I really liked Kevin’s definition of talent communities from last week’s #TChat Radio Show. Kevin, why don’t you share that?” Stammer. Stutter. I have no idea. Here we were yesterday in our packed HRevolution session on building and maintaining talent communities, me in one of three groups we had broken up in to, and [...]

We weren’t supposed to win. And early on in the game it looked that way as we were down by 14 points. We were one of the best in our high school league, but our cross-town rivals were just a little bit better. Right before halftime of our big rivalry football game, with 4th down [...]