Mergers & Acquisition
HR/Humane Resources – Key to Superior Corporate Social Responsibility
In today’s world, the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a lot more than just a nice-to-have. It has become an integral part of doing any business. The customers are likely to get involved with any brand with the organizational CSR activity as one of the major...
Corporate Plasticity in Changing Workforce Dynamics
Changing Workforce Dynamics The nature of the workforce is changing, and will continue to change as each generation enters organization life. This change may be greater than in the past due to the rapid changes in those factors depicted in above figure. With the...
People & Process Re-engineering
5 Ways To Be A Conscious Leader
Conscious leaders speak with integrity, lead with authenticity and hold themselves accountable. They listen with the intent to understand and not just to respond, and they do it by being in tune with themselves and the world around them. As Jim Dethmer explains in his...
Corporate Plasticity — Stretching The Corporate Brain
“The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein, it rejects it.” — P.D. Medawar (Biologist) Neuroplasticity or neural plasticity, also known as brain plasticity describes the ongoing change to the brain throughout our lives. Plasticity...
How To Develop a High-impact Team
“The Dream Team.” It was the name given to the 1992 US men’s Olympic basketball team composed of some of the greats of the game, including Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Charles Barkley, Karl Malone, and John Stockton. We’ve seen dream teams in other...
The Power of Leadership Narrative Intelligence
Matching Motivation With Story and Capacities I’m inspired by Quakers who call on one another to answer the question: “What is mine to do?” They ask this not just once, but in an ongoing way. As we reenter the post-pandemic world, how can we be optimally responsive to...
From Workforce Management to Optimization: The Evolving Roles of HR and Operations
“The only constant in life is change” is arguably the understatement of the decade—and will continue to be all too true in the years to come. On top of losing jobs, the pandemic forced many workers to leave the workforce. With labor scarce, many businesses large and...
Why Empathetic HR Leaders Are More Effective
Empathy is a critical HR leadership skill. It helps build and sustain positive workplace relationships, foster diversity and inclusion, encourage cooperation and collaboration, and facilitate conflict management. Steve Browne, SHRM-SCP, a member of the SHRM board of...
3 ways HR can gain competitive advantages in a VUCA World
As has been clearly and powerfully argued, we live a VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity) world. It is a world where product and capital markets, demographics, geopolitics, technology, and the competitive landscape are becoming increasingly...
Here’s How Managers Are Making Performance Reviews Simple, Painless And Effective
Performance reviews are the perfect opportunity for employers to communicate an employee's current standing in the company and how they can progress. It's also the best time to talk about future goals and exchange constructive criticism each party can work on for the...
Redefining employee performance for a post-COVID era
Many organizations feel an urgency to change how they manage employee performance. Talent professionals must embrace the changes of a remote and mobile employee base and implement long-term strategies to address the ongoing changes of a post-pandemic workforce. If...
Leveraging New Normal Disruptions
Conscious Capitalism: Beyond Corporate Social Responsibility!
The future of business will require companies to do more than add on a CSR program—purpose will need to be incorporated into the business model and integrated into the entire organization. Certified B Corporations have taken a bold stance in the modern world by...
The Most Profound Way to Create Growth Mindset
Leaders naturally want their employees to bounce back from failures and strive toward improvement — the hallmarks of a growth mindset. But how to cultivate that reality is seldom easy or obvious.Our research at the NeuroLeadership Institute finds better feedback...
Develop Purpose, and the Profits Will Flow
Your business plan may not include a section for passion, but it should. Leaders possess a special kind of grit. They reach higher, do more and expect rewards for their efforts. But one colossal blunder many budding entrepreneurs make is initially putting too much...
The Best Companies Know How to Balance Strategy and Purpose
Most companies have articulated their purpose — the reason they exist. But very few companies excel at operationalizing their purpose, which organizes human effort at a deeper level. For your declared purpose to have authentic relevance and power, it must ring true...
8 Steps for Building a Culture of Data-Driven Empathy
Being a customer-centric organization means more than just acting on the right data. It means acting with data-driven empathy. Data-driven empathy is about humanizing data: bringing personal insights to life in a way that allows you to know your customer beyond the...
Social Innovation & Goodwill
Psychology of Compliments: A Nice Word Goes a Long Way
Research on what motivates people to compliment others KEY POINTS Research shows that compliments often make the receivers feel better than most people anticipate. Compliments also improve the mood of the compliment giver. People may want to explore becoming more...
Six ways managers can drive sustainability in the workplace
Sustainability isn’t just a trending topic, it’s an urgent issue. Reports estimate that by 2025 there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. Reports keep flooding in of plastic pollution, deforestation, and extreme weather patterns all resulting from our misuse...