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Back in December I asked this question: are you ready to lose your employees? I wrote it because of a statistic that came out showing a high number of employees were thinking about leaving their jobs in 2011. At that time, it seemed like new jobs were going to be on their way, along with [...]
My wife does a lot of projects around the home. I don’t get to help her with almost any of them. Unfortunately, I’m not that handy with tools, and never have been. Give me a screwdriver and I’m a monster; give me anything else and there’s the possibility of disaster coming. Right now my wife [...]
Last week I met a guy I’ve known for a long time for lunch. I wanted to meet him because I’ve known him for a long time, and I know he’s struggled with his career. I had once mentioned an idea to him that I thought he could pull off well, based on the little [...]
This morning I was at a meeting for consultants. We were talking about another organization, called the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD). This is an organization I used to belong to, that I’m thinking about possibly rejoining at some point in the future, but just haven’t been enthused lately. The conversation got around [...]
The second product I ever created was supposed to be a way to help people in leadership positions not only evaluate their present employees, but determine criteria for interviewing and hiring new employees. The Mitchell Employee Evaluation Module was that attempt. What prompted it was a conversation I was having with my friend Jeanette Sweet, [...]
Over the past month or so I’ve been working my way through a book titled The Ethics of Star Trek. I usually read books very fast, but this one has so many concept involved that, well, I won’t say I’m struggling to get through it anymore, but it’s so detailed and compact that it’s become [...]
Advice is a strange thing. All of us will look at someone else, see that they might be messing up in some fashion, and immediately want to tell them what we believe they should be doing. Sometimes, they might not be doing anything wrong, just not doing it the way you’d do it, and you [...]
