The Economic Value of A Multigenerational Workforce
Monique believes in the economic value of multigenerational teams where age simply should not matter. We are simply living longer and for those individuals who would like to continue to work — why not? Perhaps this is an opportunity to re-define what work can and should look like. The power of the AND is compelling in this narrative .
HR Needs to Adopt New Technologies Faster
Kevin Wheeler discusses the potential HR departments have in the 21st century to solve critical business problems, and reasons why they have not.
What Would You Do If You Were Not Afraid?
What Would You Do If You Were Not Afraid? Guest Blog Post from Jeff Saperstein An important step in career planning is to answer two simple, but really difficult questions: What do you want to accomplish? What is hindering you from achieving it? Sure, it is easy to...
Inclusion: You Keep Saying That Word
Inclusion: You Keep Saying That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means GUEST COLUMNIST-VIDEO Inclusion remains, in 2016, poorly understood, and often misunderstood. Inside most organizations "inclusion" is a vague, abstract idea involving notions of...
Five Disciplines of Organizational Success
CEOs and other business leaders are frequently heard complaining about their organizations’ lack of innovation, their inability to find great talent, and the difficulty they have in producing products and services that are distinguished from the competition.Back in...
Big Data & Analytics in Recruiting & Learning
Big data and analytics are just beginning to be tapped for recruiting and learning, but their future growth will depend on HR practitioners understanding of what big data and analytics can do for them, their willingness to use the data to make decisions and change...
In Memorium – Jay Cross
My world shrank a few days ago when Jay Cross passed away. I don't even remember when I first met him, but it must have been 20 years ago or so. It feels like I always knew him. He was a mentor, a colleague, and I can't imagine him not being there for a lunch, a chat,...
A VUCA World Requires More Than Big Data
In the TED@IBM talk last year, Susan Etlinger spoke on the topic “What do we do with all this big data?” The gist of her talk was that facts in themselves are meaningless without context. She also went on to say that lack of ability to question and to bring an array...
Recruitment is Marketing: 3 Changes You Need to Make
Once upon a time we sold products much as we “sell” jobs & organizations today. At the turn of the 20 century, merchants waited for a potential buyer to show up. The buyer was supposed to know what they wanted and ask for it. Most of the merchandise was kept in...
8 Traits of Successful Recruiting Leaders
What makes a person an outstanding recruiting leader? Is it the ability to set a vision, develop a strategy, or manage a budget? Or is it something much less visible and subtler?I believe that leadership is not something we are born with, although we may have a...
The Next Steps in Big Data Analysis & Its Impact on Recruiting
Big data has become a mainstream topic and more and more organizations are hiring data scientists and learning how to gather, collate and extract useful information from vast amounts of data. At this point in the evolution of data science, we can collect data and...
Play Your Cards Right
A simple stack of cards can have a greater impact on performance than a fancy multimedia production. Let’s look at ten examples. 1. A program encouraged managers to be receptive to their subordinates. To reinforce the lesson, they received cards to give to their...