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Feedback is a gift, isn’t it?
Imagine a gift you rarely want to get and you rarely want to give. You just let others have it. It is so valuable that we keep it for the most festive part of the business year which nobody has ever had actually.
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Gestalt cycle and progress
Sometimes things just simply don’t happen. Things that could take you where you want to be. Impediments, in many cases, have a psychological reason. Knowing it can help you address the problem.
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Salary increase is not always the box of the engagement ring
The cliché of engagement starts with that someone kneels down before the other and takes out a tiny little box. This very beginning of the process already raises excitement. The main message is already delivered, yet, the actual representation still matters.
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Anatomy of a sandwich: the stress
Being a mid-level manager is like being the middle of a sandwich. You get the pressure from both above and bottom, but the most delicious part is always in between.
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HR is for the people, just not for those people
HR is often the bogey-man in the organisation. It comes from the contradiction that they deal with the employees on one hand, and they execute unpopular actions in the name of cost efficiency on the other. So they rename themselves to people officers, yet, everything stays the same.