At medium- and large-sized companies there is frequently a group that HR and senior management refers to as “Hi-Po’s”, that is, High Potential employees. It is quite literally the top percent or two of any large organization who have been identified as those with the greatest potential to have an outsized impact at the company. […]

Let’s talk about e-mail communications and e-mail sanity (or lack thereof!) There are two primary ways e-mail can drive you insane:  1) You just get way too much of it, and you don’t have a good strategy for taking care of it. That has been a big part of my focus for the last several […]

The #MeToo movement has opened the eyes and pocketbooks of upper management throughout the country. Until recently there were many in management responsible for maintaining a safe and cordial workplace culture who failed to offer harassment prevention training. In some companies they just didn’t think about it. In other’s they had less than 50 employees […]

If criminals would put in the effort and skill they use to defraud insurers they would own a multi-million dollar business. Rather, they get short term profits and then find themselves is an 8 foot by 12 foot cell in a federal prison. In United States Of America v. Carlo Michell, No. 16-16208, United States […]

Corporate professional development is constantly evolving and changing, and it can be hard to keep up. Let’s look at a few of the latest trends in corporate development this year: Speed The desire for speed and having needs met on demand is usually attributed to millennials, but the truth is most of us expect a […]

I was at a meeting the other day where a group of people were concerned about noise, traffic, bicycle paths and walkways due to a new arena.  As I listened I realized  that the real concern was because there were changes that they would have to make and those changes – as they considered them – created […]

Ethics is a process of systematically applying, using, defending and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior. Ethical behavior is required of both parties to a contract of insurance for the system to work. Ethics is the essence of insurance. Ethical behavior is required of both parties to a contract of insurance for the system […]

As a time and productivity management speaker and author, I see it all the time. People just don’t use their inboxes properly. And these mistakes lead to significant distraction, lost time, and rework. Most people use their e-mail inbox in four specific ways, and only one of those ways is correct: 1. (The Correct Use): […]

We have closed out submissions to Illumeo’s 2018 Audit, Accounting and Corporate Finance Professional Development Survey and gathered the results. Let’s just say our eyes were opened quite a bit by what we saw and heard. Being from this world (audit, accounting and finance) in past lives we always knew that training for these professionals […]

Ask yourself two questions: Question 1:  Am I targeting the right job? To answer this question, you need to determine if the following equation is true: What I Have = What They Need Here is how to fill in the equation. What I Have List your accomplishments that you are proud of and that you […]