Category Archives: Organizational Behavior and Human Resources Management Media Clips and Topics
My Five Favorite Blogs and Subscriptions for Spring-Summer 2013
How do you keep up with the news? How do you stimulate your creativity, add an extra kick to your presentations and stay relevant for your career? It’s a challenge. I confess I love the retro feel of a newspaper … Continue reading
What Kind of Leader is Jillian Michaels and What do You Need from Your Leader?
“Unless you faint, puke, or die, keep walking!” exhorts Jillian Michaels to contestants on TV’s Biggest Loser. I confess I have a love-hate feeling about Jillian Michael’s leadership style with her trainees. When I first started watching, I hated her … Continue reading
Please Don’t Sniff Me In the Elevator!: HR Tip to Avoid Sexual Harassment Lawsuits
Yesterday, my colleague sniffed me in the elevator again. Over the past 15 years of teaching at LMU, he has probably sniffed me in the elevator dozens of times. Here’s how it works- He leans way into my personal space … Continue reading
Will Civil Rights for GLBT Employees be the “New Normal?”
Kissing: fun to do and entertaining to watch on TV. After my first week back to teaching I was having a Professor Couch Potato kind of night: TV, red wine, blankie.. .you get the picture. I noticed … Continue reading
What “ True Color” Should Your Mentor or Protégé Be?
I am a big fan of using the True Colors assessment with my students and clients when I teach them about mentoring. The True colors provides a somewhat abbreviated version of the well-regarded Myers-Briggs instrument as it provides insight into … Continue reading
What Media teaches us about Management
I think there is tremendous value in using media to explicate concepts in management. Viewers today are very sophisticated and used to seeing a lot of production value so most corporate training videos fall short of being effective. Sadly many … Continue reading
Mentoring Archetypes: Who’s Your Favorite?
ABC’s Shark Tank has become one of my favorite shows on television. It is addicting to watch this show and root for the underdog and hope that various products get invested in by one of the sharks. I can even … Continue reading
If the Olympic Village Had a House Mom…
The 2012 Olympics are playing out in London and the results thus far have been thrilling. As an audience we are given in-depth access the athletes and their extraordinary back stories, but the cameras don’t follow the athletes home, to … Continue reading
Webisodes: The Start-Ups of the Entertainment World
In the corporate world organizational structure is a mapped out and practiced thing. Employees are broken up into departments and assigned specialist functions. From the CEO to the mailroom clerk everyone knows their place and their purpose. At a start-up … Continue reading
The Evolution of Casual Dress Friday
Back before I fell in love with organizational behavior, mentoring and success strategies, I worked in a corporate office for a short time. The company I worked for allowed employees to bring their pets to work on Friday’s. This fringe … Continue reading