Vickie Hann, HR Director at the Hilton Arlington near my old stomping grounds of Washington D.C., contacted me to share the great work her hotel is doing around the Earth Charter, an international people’s treaty for building a just, sustainable and peaceful global society in the 21st century.   At the Hilton Arlington, an Earth Charter ...

I’m always lamenting the annoyances of business travel.  Whole days wasted on airplanes.  Having to feel your way around strange airports and cities.  Unavoidable expenses that the company finds an excuse not to pay for.     Except when I think about it, some of the most fun I’ve had away from home has taken place on ...

Thanks to Seth Godin and ExecPundit for sharing this insightful piece titled “Note from Boss to Employees.”  Some of the highlights: I am sometimes under enormous pressure from upper management; pressure that you seldom see. Anything that you can do to make my job easier will be greatly appreciated. Your interests are important, but ...

Dave Lorenzo at Career Intensity talks about a scene he recently witnessed at his office.  A group of clients visited company headquarters for a day, but during the scheduled meetings parties on both sides spent much of the time typing on their Blackberries.     Says Dave:  “If you were a company employee and you invited a ...

Expense reports are a reality of employment in Corporate America that most people tend not to think too much about.  You spend money on behalf of your company and HR pays you back ASAP, right?    However, once you go to actually submit your first expense report for a new job, you may realize that reimbursement is more complicated ...

[ImageAttachment]   This week, the human resources field is abuzz with the news that napping at work can help prevent heart disease. The catalyst?  A study just published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, which is being covered in thousands of news outlets, including Reuters and the Washington Post, as we speak.  To reach ...

[ImageAttachment]   Over at CareerHub, Andrea Kay has a great post about people seeking career assistance who claim they have attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).  She names some workplace strategies for coping with the disorder – including executive assistants, coaching, personal organizers, software and timers – but ...

[ImageAttachment]   It doesn’t add up.  The workday has been roughly the same length of time – eight hours – since the early part of this century.  Today, though, we have access to a variety of technological advances designed to increase our productivity, from fancy schmancy office software to search engines that supply a ...