Category: Positive Workplace

Open Source Unions

Posted by Phillip Wilson | Nov 9, 2004 | Positive Workplace, Union Avoidance

I love this idea. It is an “open source” guide to creating campaign literature (flyers, newspapers, etc.) for union and community organizers. The core guide is already written and is free to anyone who wants to...

Supervisor’s Tip of the Week – Three questions you should ask those you lead

Posted by Phillip Wilson | Nov 2, 2004 | Positive Workplace, Union Avoidance

It is often repeated that nobody cares how much you know until they know how much you care. This is definitely true for managers. Being a good manager is challenging, especially in today’s high-pressure business...

Diversity’s Impact on Postitive Employee Relations

Posted by Phillip Wilson | Oct 13, 2004 | Positive Workplace

Another great session. This one was led by two diversity officers of companies that you know by name. Especially when seen from the context of Professor Brockbank’s presentation yesterday, this presentation really laid out...

Positive Employee Relations Best Practices

Posted by Phillip Wilson | Oct 12, 2004 | Positive Workplace

This open forum was presented by three members with employee relations responsibility. Each presenter listed some of their unique positive employee relations practices. Then the audience was asked to break into groups, list some...

Blogging the CUE conference

Posted by Phillip Wilson | Oct 10, 2004 | News, Positive Workplace, Union Avoidance

I’m at the CUE fall conference (CUE stands for Conference on Union-Free Environment) in Salt Lake City at the beautiful Snowbird resort. I’ll be blogging from the conference this week regarding my impressions. If you...