Happy New Year from the Sunny Side of the Street
Happy New Year! I hope like me, you’ve had an enjoyable holiday, whether your idea of enjoyable is peaceful time with yourself, or boisterous times with family and friends. A number of years ago we started a policy at RealWired where employees are able to take a couple of weeks off during the holidays, as […]
The true cost of, “Yeah, we’re good”
As a job manager or chief appraiser at a bank, appraisal workflow can be handled by Outlook/Excel, outsourced to AMCs or third-party workflow platforms. Sometimes when we’re talking with prospects about our workflow platform YouConnect we hear, “Yeah, we’re good” and “If it’s not broke, don’t fix it.” Understandably, you’re busy. Very busy. There’s little […]
A Time of Connections – Make them Count
We’re officially in the holiday season. It’s important to use this time to make meaningful connections through such things as old-fashioned Christmas cards, personal visits, parties, and even e-mail. Social media is a mainstay that can add to both the professional and personal side of the holiday season. It’s currently trendy to bash Facebook users […]
Emily Post, Where are you
We’ve added a podcast! At RealWired our focus is on people – how they work and grow in their careers. That focus and passion is why we are a “service company that provides software”. This same focus was the impetus for me to start communicating weekly by newsletter and then by blog and now by […]
Lollipop Theory
Hold on. I have something negative to say. Yesterday I heard a statement that I found pretty offensive, but of course it still stuck with me….”Once you lick the lollipop of mediocrity, you will suck forever.” It’s pretty harsh right? It’s so defeating. No one wants to be mediocre. It’s worse than being average. Way […]
Team Appraisal Department
Teamwork is defined as a collaborative effort of a group to achieve a common goal or to complete a task in the most effective and efficient way. Simple enough, but are the team players on your appraisal department engaged? A recent Dale Carnegie white paper suggests that; “Engaged Employees (EE) are a competitive advantage, and […]