HOLIDAY REFLECTIONS

Letting Go of Your Ghosts

Never Stop Learning

The Robots Are Here-to Help

Riding the Wave of the Living Longer Tsunami: Get Ready to Hire Younger Older Professionals

Everywhere, from popular culture to the medical community, society has picked up on this metaphor for our country’s growing demographic phenomenon – the longer-living, younger, active American.The image is apt, because a tsunami is a powerful force, a massive compilation of otherwise ordinary waves. Rather than something to be apprehensive about, this tsunami is a surge of positive momentum and energy that employers stand to benefit from when they’re savvy enough to jump in and get ready to ride.

The Emotional Mind

In an age where we leverage technology in the majority of our daily life-which already makes many aspects of our lives better-we need to consider how to use technology to improve our actions as employers and professionals. Specifically, consider the fact that we are not always cognizant of the biases and prejudices that may determine who we hire, how we treat customers or even how employees treat each other. In daily life we constantly judge and categorize one another based on a number of learned implicit beliefs. These judgments, neuroscience shows us, are predominantly steeped in our emotions, rather than our rationality.

A Culture of Trust and Hiring & Cultivating a Multigenerational Workforce

A few months ago, the CEO of a corporate network security company, Corey E. Thomas, gave a compelling interview in which he said the secret to professional success was his company’s culture of trust.

The Holidays: A Season of Traditions, New & Old

When I reflect on celebrating the holidays, I think about tradition, defined as “a long-established or inherited way of thinking, a continuing pattern of culture beliefs or practices, a customary or characteristic method or manner.” Tradition means tapping into something larger than ourselves that we belong to — a heritage, a culture, a broader identity and actions than the individualized sense of self and activity that permeate so much of everyday life.

What if an Employer’s Next Great Hire is 2000 Miles Away?

There are new workforce trends that make remote work an even smarter solution than ever before. A recent report, Dynamism in Retreat by the bipartisan think-tank, the Economic Innovation Group, has identified two economic realities:

Happy employees are not only more productive, but also “produce higher sales, perform better in leadership positions, and receive higher performance ratings and higher pay.

The Evolution of Work

There were some remarkable inventions in the 20th century. Radio, television, home refrigerators, electric air conditioning, airplanes, personal computers, rocketry, the internet. These are the widgets and gadgets that have literally transformed how we live — and how we work. (In case you’re wondering why some of the biggies like cars, telephones and photography didn’t make the list, they all predated 1900).

Professional Perennials

According to the co-authors of The Retirement Maze: What You Should Know Before and After You Retire, some couples simply aren’t prepared for the impact of more time spent together after decades of building independent lives during the day. Even in good marriages, it can be stressful for two people to suddenly find themselves in such close proximity day after day.