Have You Heard?
The U.S. is experiencing record low unemployment rates…… Of course you have heard. Not only is it all over the news but you are feeling the pain. You can’t find any candidates, especially good ones. You have an...
HR in the Wild: What Driving Lessons with Dad Showed Me About Comfort Zones
“When I say ‘floor it,’ I want you to put your foot all the way down on the gas pedal. When I say ‘cut it,’ I want you to cut the wheel as hard as you can to the left and HOLD IT there.”- Dad. We were sitting in an empty,...
How a $20 Cake Uncovered My Employees’ Concerns
If you and I talk long enough about HR and the challenges that businesses have with keeping employees engaged, one of us will likely bring up the topic of employee surveys. My own opinion of them? There’s some really great...
HR in the Wild: What Mom and Junior Golf Taught Me About Failure
My bag was heavy. I was lost in the woods of giant maple and oak trees (again), trying to find my golf ball for the gazillionth time in that 9-hole round. My 11-year-old self already felt like I shouldn’t be there: I was...
Bootstrapping 101: Life Lines & Lessons Learned
In the last couple weeks, I heard myself answering questions about People Spark Consulting’s history, explaining that we incorporated over a year ago. Just like that, an entire year flew by, and we can officially say we’ve...
This One Piece of Feedback Changed Our Focus.
“Can I give you some feedback? You have an entire room of people in there who want to work with you, but don’t know what you’re offering.” Of all the feedback we’ve been given in the last year as People Spark Consulting,...
Do They Really Not Know Or Don’t They Care?!?
Have you asked yourself this question? Each time you find yourself retraining an employee because employees say they don’t know, you’re thinking “I don’t have time for this!” or “I have so many other things I should...
When Giving Feedback Feels Like Doing Laundry…..And Not In a Good Way
I am in a laundromat watching the dryer spinning and it reminded me of a conversation I had with a manager just this week. Yes, seriously…….I am at the laundromat AND it does remind me of giving feedback to employees....
Two Sentences That Make Giving Feedback Easier
A husband and wife are sitting on their front porch one evening enjoying the night air. The husband says to the wife “In the moonlight teeth look like pearls”. The wife says “Who’s Pearl and what were you doing in the...