Feb 18

Corner of Social and Media: Where Glib, Cute and Stupid Meet (A U-Write It Article)

I have an article in mind, entitled Corner of Social and Media: Where Glib, Cute and Stupid Meet, but it’s late, I’m tired, and nobody pays me anything for blog writing. So I had a thought.

What if I post a title and not explain at all what I had in my head and let other people contribute material from their perspective of the title, and what I might mean.

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Feb 01

Employee Engagement – The Mad Fad of the 2000′s – A Poor Construct

A colleague asked me where one could find criticisms of Employee Engagement, the buzzterm championed by marketplace monster, Gallup. There’s tons of stuff about it pushing it and making it appear to be as vital and important as…well, let’s see, Total Quality Management, Quality Circles, Employee Empowerment, and on and on.

There is very little PUBLICLY available on the Internet that asks the critical questions one should ask of any “movement” in the workplace. Continue reading

Dec 05

Special Tweet Series #2: Dealing with difficult people and customers-Get Ready

We’ve set up our second special tweet series, this time on dealing with difficult people and customers. We’ll be tweeting regularly with help on this subject over the next days. Follow us at http://twitter.com/rbacal

Search for all topics/items via #bacal

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Dec 05

Special Tweet Series Announced (Today-Leadership Styles

At the same time as Bacal & Associates reduces blog posting, we’re doing something exciting to go along with the development of our World’s Greatest Training, Development and Learning Search Engine, and the other search engines we are working on.

For over 10 years we’ve been serving the public, our customers, and Internet visitors by finding and telling them about great or thought provoking articles on a number of topics. Over this time, we’ve created specialty (free) web sites on leadership, conflict, customer service, and many more. We’ve accumulated tons of great stuff, articles, sites, etc.

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