Mike Haberman

Be Careful about using “Creative” Interviewing Methods

by Mike Haberman

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I came across an article in Entrepreneur Magazine written by Gwen Moran, where she described 3 Unique Hiring Techniques to Find the Right Person for the Job. You often come across articles that describe these kinds of methods of finding people that are out of the “ordinary” way of interviewing. While these are interesting you [...]

May 21, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Will Wearing Red Improve Your Interview Results?

by Mike Haberman

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I watched a show on the Discovery Channel called Head Games. The episode was Seeing is Believing. One of the pieces dealt with a woman wearing a white dress while asking for a single $1. Most people ignored her or made excuses, though a few would give her the $1. Then they dressed her in [...]

May 13, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Crying at Work

by Mike Haberman

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Every manager and every HR person has faced tears at work. I will also wager that the majority of managers and HR people have shed some tears at work. We all get caught up in dealing with emotional situations. Sometimes they involve people we know well and as a result it may be difficult to [...]

May 7, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

An Observation on Work-Life Balance

by Mike Haberman

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Work-Life balance is always a hot topic. A week doesn’t go by without some article, blog post or new book appearing discussing the desire for work-life balance. Googling work-life balance produces a slew of references and definitions. Let me share with you an observation on work-life balance I recently came across. A definition According to [...]

April 29, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Becoming an Expert and Then Staying One

by Mike Haberman

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Everyone who has read Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers knows of his premise that to become an expert in any field takes 10,000 hours. But today the amount of knowledge available in any given field increases at a phenomenal rate. This begs the question once one becomes and expert how do you stay one? Outdated too quickly [...]

April 23, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

A Tip for Evaluating Employees

by Mike Haberman

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I was reviewing some notes from a book that I found to be inspirational. Alan Weiss wrote a book called Thrive! Stop Wishing Your Life Away. I think one of his tips is particularly valuable and makes an excellent tip for evaluating employees. Strengths According to Alan “We all grow by exploiting STRENGTHS not by [...]

April 19, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Five Steps to Better Wage & Hour Compliance

by Mike Haberman

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First off let me get the disclaimer out of the way. I am NOT an attorney. I am NOT providing legal advice. I am making these statements from the perspective of an HR professional, consultant and HR instructor that has dealt with Wage & Hour issues for a long time. With that said here is [...]

April 9, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Advice for HR to Live By: Just Stop It!

by Mike Haberman

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I attended a session conducted by the man I consider a mentor. He is the consultant of all consultants. Author of the Million Dollar Consulting and 45 other books, Alan Weiss has been a very, very successful OD consultant and world renowned speaker who now is in the business of helping people become successful consultants. [...]

April 1, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

3 Things to do to Improve the Performance of your HR Department

by Mike Haberman

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In October of 2012 KPMG published a study of 400 C-Suite executives. As you can tell from the title of this post, the news was not good. They think HR is ineffective. How do we get beyond that? Here are three suggestions to improve the performance of your HR department. Failure According to one quote [...]

March 26, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Diversity: It’s More Than Just Race

by Mike Haberman

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An article written by SHRM staffer Rebecca Hastings, SPHR dealt with diversity. Her article, entitled Diversity Efforts Should Include White Employees, (SHRM membership may be needed to read) dealt with including more whites, specifically more white men, in diversity training. The group that conducted the training found that including whites in diversity training increased the [...]

March 18, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

The ACA Exchanges Delays

by Mike Haberman

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Earlier in the year it was announced that employers would have to inform employees of the availability of a healthcare exchange by March 1, 2013. Some of you may have noticed that the date has come and gone without exchanges being available for employers to tell employees. Here is a bit more information. As required [...]

March 12, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

AMPing Up Your Employees: Motivation According to Pink

by Mike Haberman

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With his book Drive! Daniel Pink has added another chapter in the discussion of motivation. Much has been written on motivation from Maslow, Herzberg and Skinner to Drucker. (I wrote on Drucker and Pink here.) Pink’s has added a discussion on work in the 21st Century. He talks about it in terms of AMPing your [...]

March 4, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Are Cyborgs & Human Augmentation a Reasonable Accommodation?

by Mike Haberman

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I am pretty certain two questions popped into your mind as you read this title. First, what the heck is “human augmentation” and second, what do you mean “reasonable accommodation”? In this post of a look to the future: human augmentation as reasonable accommodation I will answer both questions. What is Human Augmentation? Human augmentation has been [...]

February 26, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

The Use of Rhetoric as an HR Core Competency

by Mike Haberman

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Do you think the ability to speak effectively to a group would be a necessary qualify for an HR manager to have? You have just been asked a rhetorical question. A rhetorical question is one asked solely to produce an effect (especially to make an assertion) rather than to elicit a reply. I already know [...]

February 18, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Four Sweet HR Lessons

by Mike Haberman

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I have had the very good fortune to hear a presentation from Kat Cole, President of Cinnabon, who has the distinction of being one of the few company presidents to come through a Human Resources position. Kat has wisdom beyond her years and she provided some compelling lessons. Connections to make change After hearing Ms. Cole’s [...]

February 12, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Boobs and Babes in the Workplace

by Mike Haberman

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Ok, get your mind out of the gutter. This is not a story about a strip club or anything risqué like that. This is actually about nursing mothers. Or more specifically about the amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act that was included in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA). Some [...]

February 4, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Arrogance Versus Confidence

by Mike Haberman

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I’m certain that each of you has at some time in your life have used these terms and applied them to someone you know or know of. We have applied them to fellow employees, students, friends, family members, celebrities, politicians and more. Perhaps these terms have been applied to you in the past as well. [...]

January 29, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

One Tip Every Manager Should Know

by Mike Haberman

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While I was talking to a client and discussing the performance appraisal process, I mentioned one of the downfalls was that many supervisors are hesitant to have candid conversations with employees and tell them the truth about their bad performance, not necessarily bad enough to fire them but bad enough to say “no raise.” He [...]

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January 21, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

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