The Workforce Institute

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 [...]

Take Your Child to Work Day – 2012

Joyce Maroney — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:50:15 +0000

I took my mother (pictured here) to work with me once in 1992 – in Hong Kong. She of the double major in Chemistry and German stayed home with my siblings and me, a product of her generation. She struggled mightily with my decision to go back to work after my daughter [...]

Will That Post Cost You Your Dream Job?

Joyce Maroney — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 18:03:19 +0000

The following guest blog post from our board member John Hollon at TLNT follows up on an earlier post he wrote here about the rise in social media as a recruiting tool. We’ve seen a continuing rise in recruiter interest in leveraging social media as a means of identifying and assessing candidates. John’s post below [...]

Trust is the Oxygen for Organizations

Joyce Maroney — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 19:56:02 +0000

The title of this post is a quote from my recent conversation with Steve Miggo, SVP of Operations and Human Resources at Safelite AutoGlass. I heard Safelite CEO Tom Feeney speak at the Net Promoter Conference in San Francisco, and was very impressed with the investment he’s made in the development of their frontline workforce, [...]