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Posted Sun, 06/20/2010 - 14:29 by Mike Baumgartner
There is a spot in our town where merchants gather to display their wares. Tools and equipment to solve every need, clothing to cover even the most challenging figure, and curios to adorn every wall are openly displayed for all to see. Within each merchant lies the hope that each person who passes by their carefully planned display will be tempted to purchase some item ostensibly filling a need or gap in their brief existence. In short, I was at the mall.
Posted Mon, 06/14/2010 - 08:35 by Mike Baumgartner
Have you ever tried to get a three year old to change his shirt when he does not want to cooperate? It is impossible. In fact I would rather try to change a tire without a jack. Getting an irrational (to us) child to understand the importance of removing the spinach covered cotton pullover is like... hammering a nail with words.
Posted Sat, 06/05/2010 - 19:39 by Mike Baumgartner
My grandfather was a milkman. From what my mother tells me, it was a tough job. Maybe not the kind of job you would see as a promising Discovery Channel series, but it had all the qualities of a good old fashion “working man’s” profession. He would wake up literally before the cows did, travel to the dairy, load up his refrigerated milk truck, and drive his route. It didn’t matter if it was raining or snowing.
Posted Sun, 05/23/2010 - 22:49 by Mike Baumgartner
It’s been more that twenty years since that first day when a CEO for a small electronics company said to me ”Well I guess that means you are in charge of personnel.” The word “personnel” was an early term for what is now called “Human Resources.” There are several evolutions of such titles and words.
Posted Sun, 05/02/2010 - 20:26 by Mike Baumgartner
It’s a Wednesday night and you are home with the laptop and a bucket of work still to do and you know it’s going to take you till midnight to simply get through the email. Dinner is dragging on you like a terrier gnawing to your pants leg.
Posted Sun, 04/25/2010 - 22:16 by Mike Baumgartner
Your new manager asks you for a presentation or to create a report showing production output for the year. You work on it feverishly day and night knowing that your number one goal is to impress him. You spend hours just making sure that you are using the correct form of the word “effect” (or is it affect???). You present your information and data with a smile only created by knowing it’s a complete screaming over the wall home run.
Posted Sun, 04/18/2010 - 22:20 by Mike Baumgartner
Last week I highlighted the tricks that companies use to find out who you really are. Secret tools that companies know so that they can get around the formality of the interview are critical to the “do we hire this person” decision. In the same vein, there are tricks, observations, and tests that you should use to understand a company’s culture, your future bosses quirks, and the secrets they don’t want you to know about.
Posted Tue, 03/23/2010 - 10:25 by Mike Baumgartner
For a year now I have spoken on my radio show about how things are only going to get worse before they begin to turn around. I prayed I was wrong only to find that being right is sometimes not the outcome you really wanted.
Posted Sat, 02/13/2010 - 23:40 by Mike Baumgartner
Several years ago, while not yet a recovering HR executive, I found myself, like many who read my articles, out of a job. It was a particularly harsh experience. Not because I had never been laid off before. Of course I had. Any HR person who claims they’ve never been laid off is either lying, intuitive enough to quit before it happens, or so tactically locked in they have no hope of advancement.
There is a spot in our town where merchants gather to display their wares. Tools and equipment to solve every need, clothing to cover even the most challenging figure, and curios to adorn every wall are openly displayed for all to see. Within each merchant lies the hope that each person who passes by their carefully planned display will be tempted to purchase some item ostensibly filling a need or gap in their brief existence. In short, I was at the mall.
My grandfather was a milkman. From what my mother tells me, it was a tough job. Maybe not the kind of job you would see as a promising Discovery Channel series, but it had all the qualities of a good old fashion “working man’s” profession. He would wake up literally before the cows did, travel to the dairy, load up his refrigerated milk truck, and drive his route. It didn’t matter if it was raining or snowing.
