Everyone wants the best talent. We hope that our salary and benefits packages are attractive enough to draw in the best people in for all of our positions, but if we face the facts, reality can be somewhat disappointi ...
At conferences, I frequently take part in conversations around diversity, which often drift toward the need to provide a "business case" for diversity. While the concept of a business case is certainly fine--we should al ...
There is a lot of pressure on Board of Directors. They come together for a very short amount of time and are expected to make informed decisions on some rather weighty and important topics, plus network with each other, ...
This post was originally published on the Switch and Shift blog There’s a lot being written about organizational culture “eating strategy for lunch,” and I certainly understand the sentiment. Most of us have heard abo ...
While I scoffed a bit at this summer's HBR Cover story because it started with the stale mantra of "HR needs a seat at the leadership table," I do want to draw attention to one of the more interesting points in the artic ...
Every single one of us creates the culture where we work through our behaviors, thoughts, and words. We are all a part of that. So as we go about our work, we make choices about what to say, what to do, and how to approa ...
This Thursday we'll be hosting another #CultureChat on twitter, and our topic will focus in on the what, when, and how of changing an existing culture. I find that a lot of the organizations with really amazing cultures ...
The following is a guest post from Anna Caraveli and Elizabeth Engel, CAE, who have also written a very nice White Paper on engagement (link at the end). Think about a time when you were deeply engaged, when something ...
For obvious reasons, we care a lot about "results" in the business context. Like all good things, however, results has a bit of a shadow side. By focusing so much on the results, we often will seek to get (or at least tr ...
This post originally appeared on the Switch and Shift blog. There is a generalized, low-level anxiety in the business world about attracting the top talent. A warm feeling of wellbeing will come over you, and you feel ...
