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Relationships Matter: Managing Wage Transparency

Do you know how much your colleagues make? Would you like your colleagues to know how much you make?   A new law went into effect requiring California companies with fifteen or more employees to disclose salaries or salary ranges for all positions. Salary...

Relationships Matter: Managing Love Birds

What are the pros and cons of office romances What advice would you give your employees?   If you are ready, you don’t have to get ready when crises come. The GMA 3 leadership team wished they had followed that advice. They were not prepared to deal with a...

Relationships Matter: Own Mistakes and Grow

What is the biggest mistake you made? What did you learn from it?   Do you remember the worst or most embarrassing mistake you made at work? I made my share. The first that comes to mind is a spelling error on a new student orientation t-shirt. As chair of the...

Relationships Matter: An Attitude of Gratitude

What are you grateful for? What Do you take for granted that needs to be acknowledged?   You might not know who Wally Amos is, but I am pretty sure you have heard of him, and probably eaten his Famous Amos chocolate chip cookies. I have had my share. Other than...

Relationships Matter: Listen Actively

What is most important for effective communication? Do you listen to respond or to understand?   My grandmother told us people have two ears and one mouth, so they’d listen twice as much as they talk. But listening — I mean really listening — is hard,...