Category: Video

  • Why HR Matters to Me

    In today’s video, I talk about why I started working in HR and how my growth from the beginning is very different from the mainstream. Let’s hope that’s a good thing, right? :-) Enjoy! (Subscribers may have to click through to view!)

  • Managers-four questions to manage better (Video)

    Managers and employees have an interesting relationship. Despite the time they spend together and the need for solid communication, it sometimes gets lost in the shuffle. It takes work to make communication happen, and I like to use four questions to jump start the process. (Subscribers may need to click through to view the video)

  • Be Bodacious: Put Life in Your Leadership (Book Review)

    I’ve been reading a copy of Be Bodacious: Put Life in Your Leadership recently, and it’s been one of the better business books I’ve read this year. I’ve realized that a good mix of “story” and “lesson” is what I enjoy in a book. While there are a lot of good picks out there, a…

  • Work with meaning and purpose

    One of my passions, if you’ve never had the opportunity to hear it directly from my lips, is helping others to find work they love. When someone has a job that is meaningful to them, then it doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks. They can take something as simple as customer service and make it…

  • Being aware of your culture and values (Video)

    So. How’s your culture? Are you paying attention to it? What’s it like? Do people love it? Hate it? Want to burn it to the ground, bulldoze the ashes, and nuke the whole mess? I jest, but it’s a serious question. Have you ever taken the time to just sit and think about the culture…

  • The quietest guy you’ll ever meet…

    AKA Eric Winegardner Interviews Himself I had the opportunity to sit down with Eric Winegardner from Monster during the Monster/Smartbrief on Workforce video series. If you’ve never met me in real life, let me just say this: I’m shy. I’m quiet. I don’t really talk a heck of a lot. That might surprise you, but…

  • #SHRM10 Social Media Panel Thoughts (Video)

    I’m working with the Monster Street Team to cover the SHRM annual conference. Click here for the whole story. I had a chance to sit in on the SHRM10 social media panel featuring Curtis Midkiff, Mike Vandervort, Bryan Wempen, and Laurie Ruettimann. It was interesting that they stuck it in an early morning time slot…