Tag: Marcus Buckingham

Faces of HR: Tyana Owings on Prioritizing Humanity, L&D, and Mentorship

Meet Tyana Owings, Director of People at Cloverleaf, a SaaS company that provides automated coaching to every team member. Over the course of her impressive career, Owings has grown into a talent development and people operations leader who believes companies succeed most when they truly put their people first. Early in her management career while […]

Placing a Focus on Emphasizing Strengths, Not Overcoming Weaknesses

If you think about the typical performance evaluation, where does the focus generally lie? When evaluating employees on a scale of 1–5 (where 5 is high), do managers tend to spend most of their time talking about the items they rated 4–5, or the items they rated 1–3? Most, perhaps unfortunately, tend to focus on […]

HOT LIST: New York Times Bestselling Hardcover Business Books

The following is a list of the bestselling hardcover business books as ranked by the New York Times on June 23. 1 The One Minute Entrepreneur: The Secret to Creating and Sustaining a Successful Business, by Ken Blanchard, Don Hutson and Ethan Willis. A fictional parable incorporating real-life advice on how to start a business. […]