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You Want Me to Wear a Respirator?

Before vaccines took center stage and forced masks to take a supporting role in the COVID-19 pandemic drama, masks were and still are in many parts of the country as important to daily life as brushing your teeth each day.  Work, shopping, places of worship, travel, entertainment, recreation, you can’t get away from them.  We’ve …

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“The Signal is Coming In Loud and Clear!”

In the world of business, we are surrounded if not inundated by information and data.  Every function and department track their own information sets and metrics.  Production equipment produces endless data streams from monitoring instruments.  There are those tasked with tracking the performance of competitors.  We monitor safety and quality performance to keep our employees …

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Blaming and Shaming Will Surely Make Us More Diverse

Hardly a day passes that an invitation to attend a class or an offer to purchase a course or services for diversity, equity, and inclusion training doesn’t show up in your inbox.  Are there more effective ways to achieve the desired end state without simply checking an attendance roster?  Can we change the way our …

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“Just Change the Law!”

Several years ago, I was working with a group of Australian colleagues on some challenging labor situations in a U.S. based operation.  As ideas were being tossed about, there was a frequent and common response, “No, we can’t do that.  It is prohibited under the Act (National Labor Relations Act).”   To which they responded, “This …

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Mandate: The Employee Strikes Back

The Pandemic Saga Continues It may not be the Rebel Alliance organizing the opposition, but the announced Vaccine Mandate by President Biden on September 9th has excited the views and opinions of the American workforce.  Within days, we can expect to see the language of OSHA’s Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS).  What have you done to …

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