The C-suite faces the struggle of wanting to be a part of every piece of the business, but it’s not always that realistic as a company grows. You … Read more
The Employees First Approach Of a Billionaire Yogurt Maker
“If you’re right with your people, if you’re right with your community, if you’re right with your product, you’ll be more … Read more
Management Lessons Learned On a Driving Range
Note: The following excerpt about celebrating wins is from the book Balanced Accountability: Three Leadership Secrets to Win Hearts and Maximize … Read more
What It Takes to Teach Your Old School Managers New Tricks
Can traditional managers learn new ways to lead? Us humans are typically heavily committed to our habits – even our bad habits. When presented with … Read more
Will You Need an Engagement Survey Now That You Can Analyze Emails?
It has long been intriguing to imagine what you might learn from analyzing all the emails and messages employees send. Now, AI tools that do this analysis … Read more
Build Engagement With Trust and a People-First Approach
HR departments today are constantly faced with a growing number of challenges as the workplace demographic changes and employees’ needs span across five … Read more
Teaming: It Could Be Your Answer to Engaging and Retaining Millennials
Note: The following is an excerpt from the recently published book, The Team Game: How Your Business Can Dominate Year after Year ∼∼∼∼∼ During industry … Read more
How To Resolve Workplace Conflicts the Way Enlightened Leaders Do
Note: The following is an excerpt from the book, Executive Presence: The Art of Commanding Respect Like a CEO. ∼∼∼∼∼ For business professionals who hope to … Read more
Onboarding Your New Hires At Startup Speed
I am fortunate in having spent most of my career working at fast-growing and dynamic businesses. In this kind of situation, the jobs people do tend to … Read more
Outsourcing Your Talent Strategy Could Be a Cost Effective Option
Over the last several years, HR leaders have increasingly recognized that talent relationship management is essential. Many organizations retain a Chief … Read more
6 Rules For Building a Startup Talent Will Want to Join
Every startup’s dream is having the chance to grow at light speed. It means that you’re doing something right, that your investors can see your vision and … Read more
The Business Case For Diversity and Inclusion
The US Census Bureau projects that by 2050, the country will have no racial or ethnic majority. Therefore, companies in the US are making strides towards … Read more
5 Mistakes Every Manager Should Avoid
Leaders create the culture that helps their teams thrive –– or barely survive. Of course, no leader intentionally stymies or stalls a team. But even the … Read more
Your HRMS Was Not Built to Manage Performance
According to Sierra-Cedar’s recent HR Systems survey* the Sierra-Cedar 2018-2019 HR Systems Survey White Paper 21st Annual Edition, the two human capital … Read more
Bringing Employee Engagement to Life On Stage
Editor’s note: Have you ever heard of a business book, particularly one focused on talent management, being turned into a play? Probably not since … Read more
It’s Not the C-Suite That Earns the Five Stars
I was at the Forbes Five Star Awards two years ago. I went there and there were all the great hoteliers from around the world. And they said that Horst … Read more
It’s Not an HR System, But Pay Attention Anyway
HR, which has its own flurry of software acronyms to cope with (ATS, HRMS, TMS, WFM), now has to contend with software acronyms from other functions such … Read more
Reduce Turnover By Fixing These 3 Mistakes
Millennials may not be job hopping more than previous generations, considering the fact many of them are still young. However, that doesn’t lessen the … Read more
The Corporate Miranda Rights That Keep Everyone In Line
Progressive organizations are continuously looking for ways to improve their operational efficiencies under clearly defined, easily understood and widely … Read more
Does Feedback Really Improve Performance?
It frustrates me when things are presented as truths when they are at best opinions, and at worst self-serving fabrications. This is the reaction I had to … Read more