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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...
The Future CHRO: from problem solver to business driver
The CHRO of today will become extinct in 1 year from now. Learn how the CHRO role must evolve and the urgent priority to rethink how HR work gets done.
Building Flexible Workforces – 3 Key Tactics for HR Functions
How business savvy is your HR function, when it comes to infusing flexible workforces into your team's work activities? Learn more why leading companies such as Facebook, Coca-cola, Pfizer and Ebay have made external partnerships a key strategy in supporting business...
The HR Gig Economy: Who is YOUR HR “Back-up Quarterback”?
A few insights on the HR gig economy and the HR workforce of the future. My friends know that I am an NFL fanatic, and in my opinion, one of the most valuable, unsung team members is the team’s back-up quarterback. The back-up quarterback must be an expert in...
Hiring Contract Faciltators
We are sourcing contract training facilitators to teach a series of already-designed workshops on a variety of supervisory and soft skills. Extensive facilitation experience is a must! We are not looking for coaches who just happen to have a facilitated a...
3 Reasons Why High Performing Teams Die
It can be extremely frustrating to witness a formerly high performing team die a slow, miserable death. See some of the reasons why this happens so that you can avoid them. A rarely talked about fact is that leaders constantly face pressure of their heads...
Performance Review – 3 Powerful Words Which Influence Results
November is typically “hunker-down” season for performance review planning for most employed individuals. It is your last chance to exceed your performance objectives before the end-of-year. Regardless of the timing of your performance review cycle, now is the...
Storytelling Techniques of Rock Star Leaders
Most experts agree that storytelling is one of the very best ways for our brain to process information. When you can easily understand information, it is easier to get excited to participate in a worthy cause. This storytelling lesson is priceless if you want to...
The Leadership Power of Proximity: Where to sit and why
Did you know that influencing seating arrangements or degrees of physical proximity can be a power tactic of strong leadership? Better be more thoughtful the next time you walk into a meeting! I just finished binge watching two of my favorite series on Netflix...
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