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This is a great and timeless story. You know, the three pigs, each of whom builds a house of different materials, straw, sticks and bricks. And, of course, the big, bad wolf blows down the straw house and the stick house, but, is not able to blow down the brick house. The third pig who built the brick house invested more time and planning into building his house and his…

All too often we are faced with a lot of data, many customer interactions, long lists of things we tracked, lists of issues and concerns, budgets, numbers, expenses – and we need must quickly figure out where to spend our limited time. And, if you are like most human resource professionals today, you want the time spent on a particular task or project to be connected to results that improve…

Outliers are things that are not part of the norm; they are not routine. An outlier is an observation that is numerically distant from the rest of the data. All work processes have occurrences that fall within a normal distribution and some occurrences, usually a very few, that fall several standard deviations from the norm. These are outliers. When problem solving with your team, don’t get stuck on outliers. Solve…

Those of us watching EFCA (Employee Free Choice Act) may want to relax under the new Congress. Not likely EFCA will get much traction. However, I suggest now is the time to ramp up your employee relations efforts. Get connected or improve your direct connections with employees. EFCA isn’t the only challenge on the horizon. What can you do? 1. Rounding: Leaders (senior level, front line and HR) get out…