People & Process Re-engineering

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...

“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...

“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...

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...

“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...

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...

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...

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...

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...