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100 Best Companies to Work For

Why Charisma’s Not Enough

To say that this election season is unusual is beyond understatement. Nonetheless, it looks likely to end like every other U.S. presidential election in the last 200-plus years: with a new president-elect, who will be duly sworn in come January. Even another strikingly unusual (in a completely different way) election, that of George W. Bush […]

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How To Tell Your Story on a “Best Place to Work” Application

Getting on a “Best Place to Work” list is not just a matter of having great programs and practices. It’s a matter of conveying this fact to whomever is compiling the list. Application processes for these lists vary, but nearly all include at least one invitation to describe your company’s programs, policies and practices in […]

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What Makes a 100 Best Company? It Depends…

Tomorrow I’m off to the Great Place to Work (GPTW) conference in San Diego. GPTW is the company that administers Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” and “50 Best Small and Medium-Size Company” lists. And although I try to make it to this conference most years, this time I’m particularly curious about it, because […]

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If Your Company Feels Like Family, Maybe This is Why

Q: What’s one of the most common comments I hear from clients, when I ask them to describe their workplace? A: “We’re like family here.” Whether or not it is healthy to have a company culture that feels like family—and there are arguments on both sides—there is at least one interesting way that all organizations […]

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Ten Tips for Getting On
the Working Mother
“100 Best Companies” List

The application for Working Mother’s annual “100 Best Companies” list is out—if your company wants to try for this list, you have until mid-March to answer the 500 questions, write your essay, and get your entry in. It’s a lot of work, but it’s for a big reward. As I wrote in my last post, getting […]

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How Companies Get On Those “Best Company” Lists–And Why

Believe it or not, companies who want a shot at getting on next fall’s  Working Mother “100 Best Companies” list are getting ready to start applying right now. How do they do it? And why? Here’s an update of the post I wrote on this very topic last year: Each year you see them—shouting from […]

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Writing corporate award submissions, work-life, diversity, HR communications and more for over a dozen years.

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Work-Life Blog

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  • Employees Aren’t the Enemy. So Why Are We Spying on Them?
  • Just Want to Sit on the Porch? You're Not Alone!
  • So What Will It Be, Employers?
  • This Is What Got Companies onto 2021's 100 Best Places to Work List

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  • Blogging and Blogging Like I'm Running Out of Time
  • In a Pandemic, Employee Communications Are More Important than Ever
  • The Language is Changing and It Matters--A Lot
  • Three Things Jigsaw Puzzles Can Teach Us About Problem-Solving

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