Loyalty
“Loyalty”. It came up the other day in a collaboration session I was having with my friend and USA veteran, senior HR official, and veteran reintegration researcher James Crook, DBA, ...
The Fourth First Principle of Solving Our Hiring Heroes Problem
The complex challenge of reintegrating our military veterans, i.e., “heroes”, defined as “people admired for courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities”, back into the civilian workforce has persisted since Caesar ...
Mission Statement
It hangs in the lobby, or in an Executive conference room, and maybe makes it into an All Hands meeting once in a while. Regardless, they can often be anemic ...
Quack!
Ockham’s razor. If you’re like most people I meet in audiences across the US, many of you have heard of it. It, like all other philosophical razors, is a ...
Certify, Staff, and Grow!
That’s the phrase that I close with in my email signature block and that I autograph books with at book signings. It encapsulates everything I do as a professional; ...
Join us!
“Movement”. Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary defines it as “an organized effort to promote or attain an end“. And that’s exactly what we’ve done at Vets2PM, start a movement to ...
The Charlie Brown Communication Problem
If you’re like most military veterans that have sat in that first interview during your transition into the civilian workforce, or you’re like most hiring managers I meet across the ...
This is Doug; Doug the tug!
Doug, a tug, and its crew and cargo sailed past the Fish Lips restaurant in Cape Canaveral, Florida yesterday, right before I went on stage to present the Florida Association ...
The Context:Leadership Grid
My Context:Leadership Grid. It’s the grid you see depicted as this post’s image, and it’s one of the fundamental concepts I discuss when I address professional and industry audiences on ...
President George Washington was both Prescient and Apropos
That’s because his statement “The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive ...
Vets2PM’s Performance Baseline for 2024
Vets2PM, LLC closed out its eighth year helping military veterans land meaningful, lucrative post-Service careers strong! We’ve helped over twelve thousand of them do just that in 1,167 companies across ...
Smile! Your Customers and P&L Will Thank You!
“Smile!”. As a young inside sales representative, that’s what I heard from my supervisors and owners constantly. And later as a call center supervisor, I promoted the same advice. ...
Cross the “T” to Obtain Your PDUs!
Everyone that holds a project management credential from the US-based Project Management Institute must earn Professional Development Units, i.e., “PDUs”, to maintain those certifications. You do not want to take ...
Project Management Nuts and Bolts
In its most recent version of the Project Management Body of Knowledge, the seventh edition, the Project Management Institute defines a “project” as any “temporary endeavor undertaken to create a ...
Do Talent Management Profitably and Easy
“15%”. That’s the amount of “higher earnings” your company could expect from “choosing the best leader for the job” according to a new Hackett Group study 1. However, many ...
Veteran Reintegration is a Matter of Mattering
TL;DR: https://youtu.be/h5UJaGQJkiI Global consulting firm McKinsey and Company produces many studies of workforces. One of them is conducted every couple of years, and it focuses on what matters to employees ...
What Does “Meaningful” and “Lucrative” Mean to You?
TL;DR Video: https://youtu.be/kvwJqFHCHmM One hundred and eighteen thousand. That’s the number we arrive at using some key Departments of Defense[i] and Labor[ii] numbers and a bit of arithmetic. And it’s ...
Why Mattering Matters
Imagine one day mattering so much to those around you that their lives literally depend on you doing what you know how to do extremely well so that all of ...