Tag: change

July 6, 2023

Those of us in recruiting have noticed a decline in employee engagement metrics for some time now as new employee needs come into conflict with the more traditional ways of working. Some aspects of this decline are reflected in employees’ […]

July 15, 2021

Companies change at a breakneck pace. Concepts like failing fast and being agile are being espoused by more organizations than ever, and for good reason. That type of thinking is how organizations can grapple with the ever-changing landscape of their […]

March 15, 2021

Change is never easy, even for those who claim to like spontaneity and prefer to “go with the flow.” Change sometimes means abandoning ways of doing things that we thought worked well, which can be frustrating. It can mean losing […]

February 23, 2021

Every organizational transformation brings changes with it, and change can often be difficult. Understanding the nature of resistance to change is the first step toward overcoming it and moving forward in a transformation. Following a process to create optimism and […]

January 7, 2020

Having worked in change management for a decade, I often find that change can come across as “fluffy” or “esoteric” or be dismissed as a “nice to have.” While many experts cite different methodologies and frameworks, I find the most […]

September 13, 2019

Employee engagement inside the workplace is one of the hottest topics in HR and learning and development (L&D) these days because engaged employees save their organizations money, as well as earn them more money. Yet according to one Gallup poll, […]

May 29, 2019

There has been a century of expected compliance by workers to do their jobs a certain way, so we are all expected to keep up! The new model for employee development will be a recognition that each person offers a […]

May 18, 2018

The best companies are made up of the best people. However, attracting and retaining top talent is still one of the biggest challenges businesses face today. First impressions matter, and the biggest mistake hiring managers can make is to ignore […]

November 9, 2017

Back in 2010 I wrote a post about how to Tap Into Informal Leaders to Influence. The basic premise of the post was that I learned that in order to turn or change an organization, you only need to find […]

August 19, 2016

The chief learning officer is often tasked with accelerating organizational learning and then must illustrate how doing that improves the bottom line. Deciding to accelerate learning sounds fairly innocuous, but it’s laced with perceived and real risk. My daughter recently […]

August 15, 2016

According to respondents from KPMG’s U.S. CEO Outlook 2016 survey of 400 CEOs, we are entering the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and it’s upending business models and demanding an entirely new way of thinking about business. No matter what term we […]