The company Zoom meeting has become a communication necessity for many over the last few months. “Can you move your camera up?” “I like that background!” “Can you turn your music off?” “I can’t hear you… …you’re on mute.” What better way to describe our current workforce communication strategies than a leader (or HR) unwittingly …
In some organizations, leadership teams have “slowed their roll” on all things recruiting and talent acquisition. Not so long ago, before the days of sourdough starters and Netflix docu-series, there was a time when we all took the longview. Not only did we search for candidates to fill our vacancies, we also looked miles down …
Dear Recruiting – It’s Time to Keep Your Foot on the Gas Read More »
This bustling city of 9 million residents and 20 million people commuting in to work, is closed. Silent, other than the sounds of the incredible key workers keeping London ticking over and those working tirelessly in the NHS to save lives. Silent, other than the sounds of birds and animals rejoicing in the safety that …
In the HR realm we’re quite fond of categorizing our need to change by using words such as transform, revolutionize or disrupt. We may, periodically, even use the word invention. In organizations the world over, large and small, there have long been plans afoot to make an HR and organizational shift for any number of …
Talent management, in a nutshell, is an organization’s commitment to recruiting, retaining and developing the most talented individuals available. It includes everything along the continuum of the employee life cycle and ensures continuity and connectivity amongst talent acquisition, on boarding, cultural socialization, performance management, staff development, succession planning and off boarding. Every single aspect. Every …
Organizational leaders and HR professionals love tossing around the word engagement. They’re quite fond of saying things like “we need to increase our employee engagement” or “let’s do an annual survey!” or “what’s the budget for employee engagement activities?” (more on that later). We can’t fault them; the engagement industry is a bajillion dollar cottage …
Why Your Employee Engagement Tactics are Destined to Fail Read More »
I saw a quote the other day (on Twitter…where else?) along the lines of “we overestimate what the future will hold in the next year and underestimate what the future will hold in 10 years.” This is especially true as we get into this time of year; the months when HR and Talent prognosticators, pundits …
To Infinity and Beyond! Talent Business Trends for 2020 Read More »
Yesterday, as I am wont to do, I fell down a deep and serpentine internet rabbit hole of company career sites. I enjoy reading job postings for a number of reasons. First, of course, they’re market intelligence on one’s competitors. Secondly, I peer at them with my HR-eyeglasses to see if the company has included …
An international company, based in the US, was targeting a go-live date with Workday in 14 countries. While they were working with a Workday Partner the project was not going as planned, issues were arising with configuration and deadlines were being missed. The client engaged us to assist with configuration from both a functional and …
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