"A Relocation Minute" with Bruce Waller
I was recently helping a customer with her moving questions following our virtual moving survey process when she mentioned that she wanted to use our company to assist her with her move. She had received a couple of other estimates earlier and our estimate was a little higher, but the other companies didn’t look at …
I can hear her voice just like it was yesterday. “Reset on lane seven, or lane 8 or whatever lane she was bowling on. Her name was Mabel Carter and she bowled the afternoon senior league. She wasn’t 5′ tall and had blond hair with wire frame glasses. Every time she would throw her 8 …
Tomorrowland is a Belgian electronic dance music festival held in Boom, Belgium. Tomorrowland was first held in 2005 and now stretches over two weekends… and usually sells out in minutes. As I think about tomorrow, I think about about our new world of work… Tomorrow is today and it’s about a new world of leading …
Tomorrowland… The future of work and relocating talent is here!Read More »
As I think about the work place we have all accepted over the last few weeks, I think about how most of us had access to this world of work long before the pandemic, but just didn’t embrace it because of a variety of reasons including its not how we do things in our company. …
Inspiration or Desperation? or maybe just a PUSH…Read More »
Over the last week, I’ve seen some really cool things around people creating powerful moments of connection. Yes, we’ve had to cancel most of our in-person meetings and social networking events due to social distancing to help “flatten the curve” of the Corona-virus. However, there are a lot of positives happening and people are getting …
Thankful for strong women like Martha Ellen Causey Thornton. She’s my mom! She gave birth to 5 children and worked multiple jobs to put food on the table for all of us. She is also the step-mom for 2 others. That’s 7 kids! When she was pregnant with her 4th child , she learned her …
Texas SHRM state council members recently assimilated together from across the great state of Texas for our state meeting in Austin Texas. Over 50 members were in attendance that represented our 32 SHRM chapters. As the District Director for District 2, I always enjoy connecting with chapter leaders to review the business/chapter objectives and discuss …
Some years are just bigger than others… and 2019 was definitely one of them. It was a year of excitement, challenges, successes and failures. One of the things I like to do at the end of the year is reflect and think about the life I am living, the goals I set for myself, the …
Years ago, I was on a business retreat with a customer and several business partners. When the retreat was over, we all played a round of golf before leaving the area. During the round, one of the players was an HR leader that kept talking about all of the different places he has played golf …
What do you put on your schedule? Add value with this strategy!Read More »
Some weeks are just bigger than others. Last week I traveled to Washington DC along with almost 1000 SHRM volunteer leaders from around the US for the 2019 SHRM Volunteer Leader Business Meetings. This is a meeting for SHRM local chapter leaders and state council leaders to connect and learn about ways to better equip …
10 Takeaways from SHRM Volunteer Leader Business Meetings in DC!Read More »