The Blog of Shockingly Different Leadership
Tips, Insights, and Gab About Up-leveling Leader Capability and Optimizing Workforces to Do Their Best Work
Welcome to Our Blog!
Three Strategies For Leaders Addicted To Both Success And Fear Of Failure
This post is the reprint of Karan's article on Forbes.com, which was originally published on November 11, 2020. "I feel like a drug addict!" This was the comment of one of my executive clients during our most recent leadership coaching session. His heartfelt share...
Want Productive Working Parents During The Pandemic?
See how employers can best help distracted working parents to navigate school plans while still meeting the company’s business goals.
Contractor Management Service 101
Have you ever debated whether partnering with a Contractor Management Service is a right move for your organization? While each company must go through their own evaluation process, we’ve provided the following guidance to jumpstart your thinking. YOU’VE GOT OPTIONS...
Big Bend SHRM Talent Revealed Conference | Karan Ferrell Rhodes – Design Thinking Speaker
Shockingly Different Leadership CEO, Karan Ferrell-Rhodes, was recently a guest speaker and workshop presenter for the Talent Revealed conference, a virtual event hosted by Big Bend SHRM in Tallahassee, Florida.On August 11-13, 2020, Big Bend SHRM hosted an...
Optimizing Blended Workforces | 5 Staff Management Tips
There is nothing better than when you get approved to add temporary consulting assistance for an upcoming major project or initiative! However, many leaders overlook the importance of staff management in ensuring your internal team collaborates well with the external...
2019 ScaleHR Human Resources Conference Speaker Line-up Confirmed
For Immediate ReleaseAugust 6, 2019 Media Contact: Karan Ferrell-Rhodes770-384-1103 scalehr@shockinglydifferent.com 2019 ScaleHR Human Resources Conference Speaker Line-up Confirmed A unique Human Resources strategy conference designed to prepare corporations...
Optimizing Your Workforce During Business Transformations
Realigning due to a business transformation is only half the battle. Aligning your workforce is daunting, but these three strategies are a good place to start.
How to Hire a Freelance HR Expert
Whether you are an HR leader at a large corporation with hundreds of staff or a small company that has an "HR team of 1", sooner or later you’re going to find it a struggle to keep up with the talent-related initiatives of your organization. That’s where hiring a...
How to Make Business Transformation More Bearable
Managing business transformation in an increasingly complex world is no easy feat, but these 3 tactics should accelerate the chances for a successful implementation and make the experience a bit more tolerable to bear. Being an Organizational Development pro,...
Customer Acquisition Tactics | How To Accelerate Attracting New HR Clients
customer acquisition Customer acquisition for any business is tough, lengthy and complex. For consultants and service suppliers who support the world of human resources, customer acquisition can be doubly hard, due to the intense vendor screening process and sensitive...
Expanding HR Capability – 3 Tips When Adding External Consultants
Consider these 3 guidelines to help ensure expanding your HR capability with external contract talent will be successful and as stress-free as possible. At many points each year, HR executives are faced with the challenge of needing to expand the HR capability...
Why Being Agile is the New Currency of HR Functions
The pressure to support critical business needs are driving the rise of corporate HR and Talent teams' need to be agile by embracing on-demand talent. The HR gig economy is anticipated to grow, at the enterprise-level, from today's level of 30% of the HR workforce to...
About SDL
Help make others great! Please follow & share
#AboutSDL
Shockingly Different Leadership is a human capital professional services consultancy that provides organizations access to the best consulting expertise in the areas of Talent Development, Organizational Development, and Human Resources – on an on-demand, project, or contract basis.
#WhereToFindUs
MAILING
4480-H South Cobb Drive
PMB 219
Smyrna, GA 30080
PHYSICAL
2121 NewMarket Parkway
Ste. 108
Marietta, GA 30067
#ContactOptions
Customer Service Email:
service@shockinglydifferent.com
Call or Text:
770-384-1103
#Office Hours
MON-FRI
8:30 AM – 6:30 PM
Weekends By Appointment