9 Leadership Strategies to Beat the Recession Blues
Wednesday, December 09, 2009 by Steve Bruce BLR Daily Advisor
It’s been a lean time for most companies, and the dark days of the recession have spawned a troubling new issue—widespread loss of employee engagement, says consultant Jon Gordon.
“Even if companies haven’t literally lost their employees, many have lost [...]

Near Misses
Unlike a western gunfight “shoot out” at the corral on television, serious accidents can cause real anguish and suffering so real and vivid that persons involved or nearby bystanders rarely forget the flow of blood, broken limbs, crushed bodies, or screams of pain. An accident without injury though is more like the bloodless, painless [...]

Top 10 Ways to Reduce Bad Behavior at Work
(from BLR HR Daily Advisor 11/23-24/2009)
Workplace incivility is an often overlooked, expensive, yet treatable malady, says the new book, The Cost of Bad Behavior. Authors Christine Pearson and Christine Porath show how to calculate the cost and what to do about eliminating the undesirable behavior.
What Is Workplace [...]

How to Deal with Difficult Employees? Don’t Hire Them
By BLR Founder and CEO Bob Brady
The best way to deal with difficult employees is to avoid hiring them, advises attorney Dan Forman. BLR,® founder and CEO Bob Brady says that while Forman is half-joking, he makes the serious point that difficult employees usually start out that [...]

Information provided by CDC
What is 2009 H1N1 (swine flu)?
2009 H1N1 (referred to as “swine flu” early on) is a new influenza virus causing illness in people. This new virus was first detected in people in the United States in April 2009. This virus is spreading from person-to-person worldwide, probably in much the same way that [...]