The Workforce Institute

Getting to Know You – Kronos Customer Experience 2012

Joyce Maroney — Thu, 24 May 2012 18:34:06 +0000

I’ve had the pleasure of meeting with a few hundred Kronos customers over the past week in New York City, Milwaukee, and Columbus (Ohio). Annually, we host about 25 free one-day conferences around the US to provide our customers with an opportunity to learn, network, and give us their feedback. This is in addition [...]

We All Need a Recombobulation Area

Joyce Maroney — Wed, 23 May 2012 20:57:02 +0000

Today I travelled through the Milwaukee airport and saw the sign above – which has evidently been there for a few years. I shared a laugh with a few fellow travelers as we googled our way to confirming that while “recombobulation ” is not a recognized word, it perfectly captures that post-TSA state we [...]

Why I won’t be missing work for sporting events

Joyce Maroney — Mon, 21 May 2012 16:00:47 +0000

To say that I don’t care about organized sports is an extreme understatement. I live in the Boston area – heart of Red Sox Nation, the burrow of the Boston Bruins, the capitol of Celtics Pride. I don’t follow the games, the playoffs, or the players. My great-grandfather was a professional [...]

Can you pull off a workforce of one?

Joyce Maroney — Wed, 16 May 2012 16:20:27 +0000

Karen Brennan-Holton is a partner at Accenture and a member of the Workforce Institute Advisory Board. She contributed an intriguing chapter to our recent book, Elements of Successful Organizations, based on the proposition that organizations can optimize performance by tailoring work assignments to the worker vs. expecting employees to conform to a fixed job description. [...]

What Children Teach Their Parents

Joyce Maroney — Sun, 13 May 2012 21:34:43 +0000

Happy Mother’s Day to all of you mothers reading this. My children aren’t with me today as they are grown and living in different cities than me. We had lovely calls today, and I got the beautiful flowers pictured here early last week at work. My daughter, my clone when it comes to planning, determined [...]

National Nurses Week

Joyce Maroney — Mon, 07 May 2012 13:31:43 +0000

This week is National Nurses Week. Our Time Well Spent cartoon of the week makes the point that patient care and quality outcomes are highly dependent on having the right healthcare professionals in the right place at the right time. We’ve written about evidence driven healthcare here before and published research on best practices in [...]

If they don’t know better, you may need to teach them

Joyce Maroney — Thu, 03 May 2012 20:51:09 +0000

The following guest post is from our board member, David Creelman. We’ve written about the challenges of hiring and training frontline workers here before. Realistic job previews and evidence-based pre-employment assessment are a couple of strategies for ensuring you make the right hires. Articulating required soft skill competencies and training for them has been a [...]

Citizen of the Year

Joyce Maroney — Wed, 02 May 2012 22:05:19 +0000

I’m going to use this blog post to brag, to encourage volunteerism, and to make a point about employee engagement. Last Saturday, I was awarded the annual prize for Citizen of the Year in my town. It’s kind of corny, but also one of the nicest thank you messages I’ve ever received. Why did I get [...]

Talking Social Media with DriveThru HR

Joyce Maroney — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:15:47 +0000

I had a great time talking to Bryan Wempen at DriveThru HR today about social media – how we use it at Kronos, and what we’ve learned in the last 5 years that may be useful to newer adopters. You can listen to a replay of the broadcast here. Bryan and I focused largely on the [...]

Preparing Workers to Reclaim the American Dream

Joyce Maroney — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:03:14 +0000

Today’s guest blog post is by Peggy Walton, Senior Director of Workforce Readiness at Corporate Voices for Working Families. Corporate Voices advocates for family-friendly policies for low income workers. Kronos is a Corporate Voices partner organization, as are a number of our clients. At a time when national leaders are looking to America’s 1,200 community colleges [...]