The holidays are here! It is the time of year we look back on the year that was, and look forward to a new beginning. With the New Year, comes New Year’s resolutions. We set expectations for ourselves each year to achieve specific goals. According to Time Magazine, 3 of the top 10 New Year’s […]
What follows after Ulrich’s Business Partner Model?
Enter the HR Entrepreneur The Business Partner model has been around for about 10 years now. It has improved both transactional and transformational HR delivery, but this has not led to improving organisational performance to the satisfaction of many CEOs. This leaves HR with a problem. Are you assuming what is needed? Having attended Dave […]
The temptation of reverse delegation
We’ve all seen situations where managers delegate a task to an employee and then end up doing the work themselves, either because they take the assignment back or allow the employee to give it back.
How to deal with employee productivity issues on cyber-Monday
Cyber Monday is evolving into Cyber Week, a week-long buying frenzy for holiday shoppers looking for irresistible bargains. Human resources professionals, however, see Cyber Monday and Cyber Week as a threat to workplace productivity.
The Difference Between Dreamers and Doers
In many ways, setting goals is similar to dreaming of success – goals are desired outcomes. But achieving goals (and with them, success) is infinitely harder and more complex.
What ‘soft skills’ do you need to become a successful financial advisor?
In actual fact, it is a job role which requires numerous ‘soft skills’ as well; some of which you may already possess, and some of which you may need to work on. Here, we take a look at five of them.
What Does Hiring Employees and Approving Mortgages Have in Common?
Talent Analytics CEO Greta Roberts explains what hiring & credit risk have in common.
Top Five Myths About the Drug-Free Workplace Act
Headlines screamed across the country when Colorado became the first state to recognize the Constitutional right to use marijuana for any reason by adults ages 21 and older.
Halloween in the workplace: five legal issues to scare employers
…five issues for employers related to Halloween in the workplace, covering everything from Pagan celebrations to fancy dress.
Perspective-taking as a leadership practice
Leadership Agility, the book I co-authored, synthesizes and builds upon the findings of all these trailblazers, adding additional insights from 5 years of fresh new studies of leaders I did while writing the book.