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Management In Real Life: The Power of Positive Meeting

By Kevin Herring, President, Ascent Management Consulting, May, 10, 2012 - Why can't we all just get along? That's what John was wondering when he called to ask me if I could do some sort of team building exercise to fix his finance team. The team's bickering and personality conflicts were driving him crazy. more...
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Management in Real Life: Putting the Lines on the Field

By Kevin Herring, President, Ascent Management Consulting, March, 08, 2012 - It's the championship and you're all set for an edge-of-the-seat experience for the next four heart-pounding hours. This is football at its finest. What gets your adrenaline pumping when the closest to the field you'll be is the five feet between you and the TV? It's the spectacular plays like a shoestring tackle on the 1-yard line, a goal line stand, a running back launching five feet into the air over a defender, an impossible one-handed end zone catch. It's all the fantastic plays that professional athletes make when they're fired up and playing at their peak. more...
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Management In Real Life: Don't Rock My World

By Kevin Herring, President, Ascent Management Consulting, February, 02, 2012 - When I'm driving with my wife and I take a curve too fast, she grabs the strap above the passenger door and lets out a "whoa." Funny thing, when she's driving and takes the same curve at the same speed, I'm the one reaching for the strap and panicking. It seems our experiences are vastly different depending on which end of the control stick we find ourselves. We both feel more comfortable when we're driving the car knowing what's coming than when we get surprised and have no control over what's happening. In fact, not controlling the wheel can sometimes be downright scary. more...
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Management In Real Life: What Makes a Great Employee?

By Kevin Herring, President, Ascent Management Consulting, January, 05, 2012 - Energetic, positive, bold, inspiring, and action-oriented. Wow! Great employee traits! Are they produced by the right environment? Or the right person? Let's peek inside a workplace and see what we can learn. more...
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Management In Real Life: Obsessing Over Non-Performance

By Kevin Herring, President, Ascent Management Consulting, December, 21, 2011 - A supervisor catches a glimpse of an employee texting. It wouldn't be a big deal except for the new policy that forbids employees to text, tweet, email, or friend during the shift. The supervisor reports it and the employee gets a black eye...not literally. He gets written up, which taints his work record. more...
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Management In Real Life: Where's Strategic HR?

By Kevin Herring, President, Ascent Management Consulting, November, 29, 2011 - Some human resource leaders are finding out that getting a seat at the table is more than a warm body in a chair when it comes to being part of the team. Quoted in recent articles on HR challenges, a stressed HR executive says his job is now tougher because his executive team's primary strategy for dealing with the economic downturn was downsizing. Strategic planning was primarily an accounting exercise. HR's role? Executing the layoff, motivating remaining workers, and gate keeping the annual merit pay increases (read no raises). more...
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IEHRA Conference -- 'Moving up the HR Charts'

By James Byrne, Manager Compensation, Exelon Corporation, November, 03, 2011 - On September 28^th -- 30^th, the Independent Energy Human Resources Association (IEHRA) held their 23^nd annual conference in Nashville. Over 90 HR practitioners and industry partners enrolled for the three days to hear the latest in issues and trends impacting the energy space. more...
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Management In Real Life: A Bite out of the Apple

By Kevin Herring, President, Ascent Management Consulting, October, 18, 2011 - For most, working for a perfectionist is no picnic. Now, Apple employees will find out what it's like to work without one. more...
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Management In Real Life: The Power of "Why?"

By Kevin Herring, President, Ascent Management Consulting, September, 22, 2011 - A tall, lanky, red-haired man sauntered into the office and announced in a deep Texas drawl that he was the new controller. His outgoing nature, salty language, and trademark "Buht waaa?" made him the talk of the water cooler, and it wasn't long before mimicked renditions of "Buht waaa?" echoed through the halls. more...
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Tapping Top Young Talent: How to Attract the Best and the Brightest of the Millennial Generation

By Elise Mitchell, President & CEO, Mitchell Communications Group, Inc., September, 01, 2011 - Putting right people in right places -- it's a timeless management challenge. But business leaders of late are universally lamenting this age-old issue with a new twist: "Who are all these young people flooding the workforce, and how do I get the best and brightest to work for me?" more...
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