Fear has become, unfortunately, a regular emotion at work. How often do you feel afraid of sharing your thoughts because of what might happen to you? Have your colleagues stopped sharing their ideas after being censored over and over? I…
Change Management
The Biggest Issue Facing HR May Be Managing Change
PIHRA’s California conference, which concluded yesterday, is, in many ways, similar to other large HR conferences anywhere in the U.S. One of the two or three largest HR conferences, the PIHRA conference offers the usual assortment of workshops, certifications, networking…
When Getting Angry Is a Positive
What if getting angry at work is a good thing? Heresy! Blasphemy! Sin! you say? Not to Susan Bernstein, a PhD executive coach and leadership consultant. Now don’t go thinking she’s suggesting you need a rage room, or that everyone…
Host a Culture Workshop and Discover How to Build a Stronger Company
We all aspire to work for a company that values our work and treats us like grown-ups. But what else do you want from the place where you spend the majority of your waking life? Company culture is best defined…
7 Steps to Successful Technology Adoption
So you’ve decided to implement new technology (ERPs, EHRs, SaaS, mobile, cloud, etc.) within your organization – congrats! New technology can definitely make your organization more effective and productive, but only if the people within your organization actually use the…
What It Takes to Become An Agile Organization
To survive, organizations must anticipate, prepare and respond to the challenges of a changing world and evolving workplace. To thrive, organizations must seek to become agile, functioning effectively and efficiently even as they adapt to new, rapid and ongoing forces…
Stop Managing By the Book and Start Innovating
Right now, your company likely has 21st century Internet-enabled business processes, mid-20th century management processes, all built atop 19th century management principles. While no company would put up with a 1940’s-era phone system, or forgo the efficiency enhancing benefits of…
What Hollywood Teaches Us About the Future of Work
Hollywood can teach you a surprising amount about running your business. When a blockbuster film is produced, a team comes together to go all-in on the project. When it’s finished, they move on to separate projects. While it may seem…
Does Your Org Chart Reflect the New Workforce Realities?
If there is one thing that is for sure in business, it is that the future is guaranteed to no one. In order to continue to grow a sustainable and thriving business, strategic evaluation of organizational performance that anticipates the…
If You’re Not Making Changes, You Might Already be a Dinosaur
Over the years, Bill Marriott has seen a seismic change in his business. “Today is a whole new ballgame for me,” he says. “When I went to hotels when I was young, you went into the lobby, you checked in…
How One Growing Company Is Changing Its Culture
Over the past two years, my company, Sterling Talent Solutions, has acquired four companies. As a result, we more than doubled in size. With this kind of growth comes change. We’ve added hundreds of new colleagues, ramped up our technology…
Ahead For HR: Everything Is Changing This Year
Note: This is part two of two parts. Find the first part here. The new year is upon us, and it’s shaping up to be an even wilder ride than its predecessor. What’s on the horizon, and how can HR…
10 Issues HR Will Be Facing This Year
Note: This is part one of two parts. The second part will post tomorrow. If you thought 2016 was rough, the next 12 months are unlikely to bring much respite. Case in point, the latest Deloitte Human Capital Trends Report,…
How HR Can Help The Business Stay Relevant In A Changing World
The November HR Roundtable was doing its best to play the part of soothsayer and look ahead to what hasn’t happened yet. The topic was “Anticipating the Shift,” which most companies miss. There are endless examples of how companies thought…
3 Steps to Making Feedback A Habit
The strongest way to make a new culture stick is by transforming new behaviors into regular habits. To really make feedback a part of your culture, follow these steps: 1. Training First, really make sure the behaviors your employees are…
All Change Will Be Resisted, So Focus On the Transition
Change is never easy. Change and transition is a bumpy process. But why is change so hard? Change is hard because it is an emotional experience for most. An emotional experience, particularly an experience one often has little choice in being part of,…
Successful Change: Less Managing, More Leading
Seventy percent of all change efforts fail to achieve their desired results. Think of all the books, articles, speeches, and workshops that you have seen or attended over the past decade. Don’t you think we would be better at change…
You Are the Architect of the Modern Workforce
“You must move from the comfort zone to the learning zone and you can never go back there.” That was a line from a recent speech that just came out of nowhere. However, it was meant as a guiding light…
How To Implement Agile Project Management
The word ‘agile’ has been a buzz word for some time now. Agile – by definition – is the ability to move quickly and easily. Agile from a project management perspective is typically used within technology projects; however, other types…
8 Culture Change Secrets Most Leaders Don’t Understand
Editor’s Note: It’s an annual tradition for TLNT to count down the most popular posts of the previous 12 months. We’re reposting each of the top 25 articles between now and January 2nd. This is No. 7 of 2016. You…