How to Rock Your Company’s Annual Enrollment in 2012. It’s your company’s annual benefit enrollment campaign. Except executing any type of employment benefit campaign is never easy. My secret to executing a great campaign involved the following secret ingredients: Desk Drops. Happy Hour. MORE >>

Are you sending your best employees to your competitors? In the average small business, six out of every ten employees are ready to take a job somewhere else. If you want to attract and retain the best talent to accelerate your company’s growth, you need a benefits package that stands out in your industry. MORE >>

Performance vs. Potential – it’s the only way to look at who’s a star and who’s a scrub in your organization.  I was up yesterday at the bswift Annual Conference in Chicago , where I spoke about The 9 Faces of HR – a primer on how to morph the performance/potential grid to evaluate HR teams and HR candidates you’re thinking about hiring. MORE >>

The true measure of your executive brand and promise of value to future employers is reflected in what those who know your work the best – co-workers, peers, top management, team members, customers, etc. have to say about you. They’re attracted to candidates who have quality recommendations on their profiles. Don’t do it. MORE >>

When you’re having a particularly high-stress day at work (or maybe that’s every day), sometimes you just have to take a minute to do something for yourself. It’s OK to stop and breathe. But in order for you to handle your high-stress job in the best way possible, sometimes you need to just take a minute to regroup. MORE >>