As our lives become ever more entwined with the dwellings that we inhabit, taking time to reflect, analyze and improve our indoor surroundings is paramount … Read more
How We Developed a Year Round Volunteering Culture
One of the growing workplace trends is employees’ desire to bring the dimension of volunteerism to their work-life schedules. One survey found that 68% of … Read more
Let Employees Do What They Do Best By Stopping ‘Responsibility Creep’
Responsibility creep is where top performers (because of their success record) continually get new responsibilities piled on them. Eventually, they don’t … Read more
Why and How We Made Everyone’s Salary Public
It’s your first day at work, and you are excited to meet your new colleagues — a little nervous, but hopeful, that the work and culture of your new … Read more
Why Leaders Do the Dysfunctional Things They Do
Early in a meeting to discuss marketing strategy, Daniel, the VP of marketing interrupted his CEO, Paul, who had launched into a typically long-winded … Read more
#MeToo Consequence: Male Leaders Are Backing Away From Mentoring Women
The collective voices of the courageous women who chose to use their fame as a platform to invigorate the national dialogue on sexual harassment in the … Read more
Don’t Ignore What People Say Just Because It’s What People Say
Qualitative data can be tough for evidence-based professionals because the whole idea of evidence-based management is to get away from opinion and focus on … Read more
HR Is Under Pressure to Change. What’s Stopping It?
HR is in the midst of a significant change. In fact, HR executives themselves aren’t quite sure what the future holds – a new report from Sage People found … Read more
HR Needs To Be Business-Like and Business-Fluffy
Question: How does HR sell our services to our internal clients? Answer: We don’t. For a couple decades now, we have been told that HR needs to become more … Read more
Do It the Way You Always Have and You Won’t Be Doing It For Long
“The most damaging phrase in the language is: ‘We’ve always done it this way’.” – Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper Born in New York City in … Read more
Your Headcount Doesn’t Match Finance’s, So What!
Here’s a question: If a project is likely to have a hugely negative ROI, should we proceed? The answer seems to be yes, if the project is determining why … Read more
HR Roundtable: What HR Should Stop, Start and Continue Doing In 2020
The July HR (Cincinnati) Roundtable had a unique facet about it because it marked the beginning of the 20th year of Steve being the facilitator of the … Read more
How Imaginary Worlds Can Inspire A Different Future
In the next five minutes you’ll hear about imaginary worlds and comic book heroines and bad ass princesses. And little girls who see a world of … Read more
Whether You Know It Or Not, You’re in Sales
Author’s note: The Human Resources team spends a good part of each workweek recruiting and interviewing job candidates, teaching employees how to … Read more
Don’t ‘Solve’ a Problem Before You Surround It
“Change is not going to come from a single person or a ‘traditional committee’ but from people who actually want to make it happen.” The … Read more
CEOs Recognizing Importance of ‘War Time’ CHRO
There’s an interesting analysis from The Talent Strategy Group that suggests CHRO tenure is closely tied to their CEO. This recently released report … Read more
Improving EX Takes a Different Way of Thinking
There’s a lot out there right now on employee experience (or “EX” as we call it). It’s not a new concept — as an industry, we’ve analyzed employee behavior … Read more
Disruption Has Another Name and It’s Called ‘Opportunity’
‘”Every disruption is an opportunity.” That was a quote from Roel de Vries, corporate vice-president and global head of marketing and brand strategy … Read more
14 Years After the ‘Hate HR’ Article, Have You Become Strategic?
The 2005 Fast Company cover story “Why We Hate HR,” by Keith Hammonds, was published 14 years ago today. That article was a shot heard round the world, a … Read more
Reskilling Human Resources For the Age of Automation
Pervasive digital transformation has game-changing implications for employees and the skills they need to stay relevant. According to PwC, 38% of global … Read more