Staff Development and Motivation

So, I get an email asking me to write a blog about who I am and why I’m here. (I’m guessing they aren’t requesting my reason for being and existing on this planet but rather why I am part of this thing called ValpoLife and PortageLife.) So that...

I found this VERY interesting. According to The Awl, the New York Observer is offering financial bonuses to its writers who have the most visibility on the Internet… via followers and such, that is (as opposed to the YouTube singing phenom or...

Written by Candance Gwaltney of the Indiana Chamber of Commerce If you believe a smile is contagious, then beware of Centier Bank. Spend a day with the Northwest Indiana financial institution and your face will ache from grinning. Ask any of the...

There is a great scene in the Tom Cruise movie where he passionately tells Cuba Gooding Jr (I swear I am not talking about this clip because he has good in his name – that is just awesome good luck), to Help Me, Help You. It is a funny and...

I love to write.  I wish I had a lot more time to write.  It is really the only way I have found to get all the thoughts out of my head that run around every day, and is like therapy, but less expensive and does not require you to fill out...

If the fundamental economics of supply and demand are any guide, Purdue University's Interns for Indiana program continues to be a resounding success story — recession or no recession. Interns for Indiana (IfI), which was launched in 2004 with...

CHANGE – Embrace it, Shape It, or Get The Heck Out of The Way If you look up quotes related to the word change, you could be reading for days.  There are actually 92,700,000 examples or sites that that you can link to when you search Google for...

Anthony Casablanca, VP of Operations for the Batesville Casket Company and Hillenbrand, Inc., recently penned an incredibly useful column for BizVoice regarding his approach to filling positions. (Casablanca was named as the 2009 Ogletree Deakins/HR...

There’s a real good chance that if you’ve been in a meeting today pitching a new idea or discussing an initiative, someone nodded approvingly but then started a response with the four words that are the linguistic equivalent of air brakes: “My...

The following was written by Ingrid E. Cummings, a guest blogger for the Indiana Chamber of Comemrce Doesn’t it make sense that we should all feel pretty good about ourselves? After all, we’ve acquired so much of what we’ve always desired:...