OK, C-level executive — I’m talking to you. There’s a lot on your plate these days. You have to keep your organization afloat and make … Read more
Digging Down Into How Employees Are Dealing With Financial Stress
What are organizations doing to help employees manage financial difficulties? SHRM (in collaboration with Elevate) explored this question in their recent … Read more
The Cultural Tipping Point: The 4 Reasons Change Initiatives Fail
My fascination with culture began more than 40 years ago when another young industrial engineer named Jim Delaney and I started a process improvement … Read more
Information Overload: Why Brevity Is Becoming a Business Basic
Brevity is emerging as an essential new business basic. In the fast-paced, multi-tasking, attention-deficit workplaces we find ourselves, getting to the … Read more
The Big Freeze Out, or Why You Can’t Ignore the Dissed-Engaged
What do you do with a productive outlier? Especially when she’s a smart problem-solver who is sometimes collaborative, and works well with others, but … Read more
Why You Need to Tie Performance to Leadership Development
Companies today face several unprecedented challenges. An increasingly competitive hiring landscape, combined with growing talent shortages and skills … Read more
Is Too Much Cross-Functional Work Killing Your Employees?
We have heard of the many jobs and/or industries that have been either lost or tremendously condensed since 2008. Let’s deal with the tremendously … Read more
The Path to Success: 8 Little Secrets to Getting Promoted
It’s never too early to carve out your path to success. Start to think, act, and communicate like a leader to get the promotion you ultimately want. Even … Read more
Innovation: 3 Ways to Help Your Company Become the Next Big Thing
Innovation — finding a better way of doing something or creating something new — that’s how Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and countless … Read more
What I Learned From My Life as an Expat HR Leader in Saudi Arabia
I recently received a note from my good friend Sharlyn Lauby (aka, the HRBartender) in reference to a question that she received from one of her readers: … Read more