News and Opinion for HR, Talent and Leaders
Are you wondering how you can build a successful team? If so, you are in luck because successful teamwork and collaboration can be taught through the right approaches to leadership. There are many components involved in creating a successful team and it is not something that can happen overnight. If you are committed to nurturing […]
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) represent a make-or-break time for employee engagement. If management can figure out how to harness the emotional commitment of employees during the transition, they can gain valuable support for the initiative that can have a ripple effect throughout the organization. But failing to consider the employee experience (EX) during M&A activity […]
Social learning isn’t a new concept when it comes to knowledge acquisition. We have all been learning socially since we were toddlers and most of us have been doing great at it. Recently, social learning has become a topic of common interest for studying human behaviors and characteristics. If we go back in time and […]
Is your organization ready? How to know when it’s time to make an internal shift Change management. It’s a phrase that saturates the working world, especially as companies prepare to make an internal shift to operate more efficiently and become more profitable. Having solid change management practices in place can streamline these internal shifts and […]
As an essential business topic, strategy execution is in its infancy. Yet it’s quickly evolving as leaders demand more knowledge, structure and resources on how to achieve it to remain competitive in the rapidly changing business environment. When leaders address how to execute strategy, it’s not always with the same energy, drive and conviction they […]
Many people view talent management as the system that takes over once an employee has been hired. However, most vendors provide talent management as an integrated suite, composed of software that manages everything from hiring and onboarding, all the way through to offboarding. Typically, a Human Resource Information System (HRIS) serves as the cornerstone that […]
Your heart is racing. You’ve been searching for months. You want this job so badly – you can taste it. Your hands are sweating. You have the skills, but you struggle in sealing the deal at the interview. A story we have heard literally hundreds of times in our line of work… and with good […]
Currently, women are offered better access to flexible working, there is more support for maternity pay, and women generally have better qualifications than men. In today’s modern times, however, although the laws are in place for gender equality and equal pay, inequality and a pay gap remains in many workplaces across the nation. Workplace gender […]
What does an average work week look like for you? I recently made the leap from internal to external; from employee to entrepreneur. After six years with Comcast, I’ve stepped outside of the organization in order to further pursue employment branding and candidate experience in different ways and address new challenges with other companies. So […]
The rallying cry to “be yourself” may sound idealistic. But, as an inclusion professional, my ongoing work with senior leaders and organizations points to just that – authenticity – as a critical component of effective leadership and organizational success. The ability to bring your authentic self to work has some very tangible results: organizations that […]