The recent rash of CEO departures, presumably involuntary, punctuates a growing trend of Boards of Directors making changes at the top with an urgency not … Read more
HR Isn’t Enough If You Want to Be a CHRO
While many HR professionals dream of someday earning the big company CHRO job, few will achieve it. After all, there are only 500 companies in the Fortune … Read more
Company Chaplains: Help In a Crisis
My first experience in workplace crisis, non-combat related, officially occurred in the spring of 2012. I had scheduled a mid-week meeting with a safety … Read more
Hiring Wisdom: It Pays to Hire Ex-Cons
Yet another sign of the robust demand for workers is that more US employers are hiring applicants with criminal records. At 4.3%, the unemployment rate is … Read more
AI Can’t (Yet) Make a Quality Hire, But It Can Get You There Quicker
I recently met with Ji-A Min, the head data scientist at the Toronto-based HR tech company Ideal (and a contributor to TLNT). The company is interesting … Read more
Driving Business Strategy With a People Focused Strategy
“Now, more than ever, the corporate strategy for large companies hinges on the people strategy.” This was a key takeaway from a summit of HR leaders and … Read more
Social Responsibility Can Be Your Secret Recruiting Weapon
Since 2015, millennials have made up the largest generation in the U.S. workforce. With the next class of millennials just graduating college, many … Read more
More Than Just Diversity, HR Must Develop a Cultural Competence
We are facing a dynamic and consistent cultural shift in the U.S. Population research conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau indicates that by 2020 over 50% … Read more
How To Plan for Compensating Tomorrow’s Workforce
The Terminator had a big impact on my understanding of the future. In the Terminator franchise, machines become so artificially intelligent that Skynet … Read more
What’s Hot in the CHRO Marketplace
CEOs continue to upgrade their CHRO talent with talent management, transformation and top team needs driving much of that change. Board members are … Read more