by Brandon Laws | Oct 25, 2019 | Transform Your Workplace
We are not built the same when it comes to receiving feedback in the workplace. What might seem as open and direct to one person can seem completely harsh and really sharp to another. Feedback can sometimes break or make someone. How you deliver it matters greatly....
by Julie Matthiessen | Oct 16, 2019 | Inside Xenium
When Shanda Nikkel showed up at Express Employment Professionals’ Wilsonville office in 1992, she was looking for temporary employment somewhere in the community. She’d been working for a pest control company, managing their schedule, but they’d gone out of business....
by Brandon Laws | Oct 3, 2019 | Development
We’ve all seen the diagram: The circle labeled, “Comfort Zone,” and the area outside of it labeled, “Where the magic happens.” It’s common wisdom that it’s important to get outside your comfort zone—but why is that? And how do you make it happen? So I connected with...
by Brandon Laws | Sep 27, 2019 | Podcast
So many of us talk about work being “crazy.” But what do we mean when we say that, and why do we often say it with a tinge of pride? For an episode of Transform Your Workplace, I spoke with David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of the Ruby on Rails web development...
by Brandon Laws | Sep 19, 2019 | Podcast
Every year, companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars to increase employee engagement. But is it working? And why is it so important? To get answers to these questions and a whole lot more, I talked to Dr. Bob Nelson, author of 1,001 Ways to Engage Employees and...
