Maverick's Mental Meals!™

Avoiding Burnout in Volunteer Work – Pt. 1 – Why Should You Worry?

Bart "Maverick" — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:24:34 +0000

Are you wasting $20,000 a year in volunteer work effort? How about $78,000 a year? Is it possible your organization is wasting volunteer work efforts without realizing it? In order to understand why we need to manage volunteer work more effectively we need to put the value of that work into perspective. Once that value is determined it should give you insight into the need to reduce volunteer worker burnout.

Projects I (or You) Might Need Help With

Bart "Maverick" — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:16:31 +0000

Since I receive inquiries regarding areas of business that are not my expertise, and since I do not know everyone of quality (yet!) in business, I decided to post projects I might need help with on a page on this blog. There is a Tab at the top call “Projects” that you can click [...]

Values Are the Thread

Bart "Maverick" — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:14:41 +0000

Most companies get an employee handbook from one place, job descriptions from another. They reluctantly build a minimalist orientation system and fly by the seat of their pants regarding corrective action. Some or all of these elements in their people system may be excellent. But, they have no relation to one another and no connection to the environment the company is trying to create. The result: a chaotic, disjointed employee experience.

Wage Theft in the Spotlight!

Bart "Maverick" — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 16:22:27 +0000

This may be true - "Hell hath no fury as a woman scorned!" But this is truer "There is no faster way to piss a man off than messing with his paycheck!"