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Does Your Culture Handcuff or Unleash Your Talent?
High potential employees thrive in a culture that unleashes their talents and they get frustrated and leave organizations that constrain them.
Crossboarding Internal Talent Moves
Crossboarding is the act of onboarding internal talent moves. Setting employees up for success whether they are new hires from the outside or transfers within an organization is critical.
Office Monsters or Culture Crusaders?
If you want employees to return to the office are you framing the ask properly? CNBC has been calling Wall Street CEOs Office Monsters. What if they referred to them as Culture Crusaders instead and focused on the positives? Would that change the dialogue?
The Riptide Effect: A Sales Shift from Geographic Alignment to Vertical Alignment
A riptide is a dangerous condition that can suck a swimmer or a surfer out to sea. Rather than fighting the current, one must swim or paddle with it. This approach that we refer to as the riptide effect is an effective metaphor for driving organizational change. In this post, we discuss how technology and the pandemic have created a riptide in the way organizations needs to approach sales.
The Great Resignation is the Ideal Time To Forwardfill Roles in your Organization
With the great resignation challenging businesses, now is the ideal time to forwardfill open roles in your organization.
C Players in the C-Suite
Is your company’s C-suite filled with top talent or is your organization held back by mediocre talent at the top? Why does this happen and how can companies break the cycle?
There Are No Trading Deadlines in Business
Sports teams create advantage through constant personnel moves. Business teams tend to play multiple seasons with the same team. Are there lessons to be learned from the sports model?
Is Your Organization A Negatively or Positively Charged Talent Magnet?
Understanding why people quit jobs is critical to building a positively charged talent magnet for your organization. Managers who invest in their people and understand the drivers of engagement attract rather than repel talent. How do your managers stack up? We offer some tactics to drive positive talent magnetism.
Behold the Turtle
Turtles while know for being sure and steady make progress when they stick their necks out.
MKBHD Warned Me About Covid 19 at CES 2020
A greeting by a tech influencer warned me about the real threat of the Covid 19 virus back on January 7, 2020.
Why Entrepreneurs Have The Advantage During The Coronavirus Crisis
Entrepreneurs are optimists and that is an important mindset for navigating uncertainty.
What an Interview with a 14 Year Old Teaches about Servant Leadership
While helping to select mentors for The Sandbox non-profit, I learned a valuable lesson from a 14 year old mentor candidate. Serving others is the key to effective leadership and our youth understand it, but adults often forget the power of servant leadership.
Replacing the Corporate Ladder with a Career Scaffold
Forget the corporate ladder and replace it with a career scaffold. Building stronger lateral foundations allow employees to progress further in their careers
Employee Retention As An Outcome and Employee Engagement As The Goal
Too many organizations focus on employee retention when the goal should be employee engagement.
Who Topgrades The Head of Human Resources?
If HR is responsible for managing under-performers in the organization, what happens when the head of HR is the under-performer?
WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOUR TEAM CALLED TIMEOUT?
Unlike in sports where the competitions are scheduled, in business the competition never stops, unless your team calls a TIMEOUT. When was the last time your team called a timeout.
Career Transition: A World of Opportunity
Companies and their needs evolve, they get acquired, they move their offices, they shift their business models and all too often their employees end up as casualties. Career transition is nothing to be ashamed of. It has become incredibly commonplace.
A DIFFERENT KIND OF STRIKE AT THE LOCAL BOWLING ALLEY
Are you “always recruiting” for your company, and are you asking your team to do the same? The best people can be found in the most unlikely places.