New research is underway which will provide extraordinary insights for you on how companies become innovative. InnovationOne, LLC and The Conference Board have launched the 2019 Global State of Innovation Survey. You can be a part of it. Our 2017 Global State of…
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Five steps to attract women to your jobs
The rise in female participation in the workforce — double the increase in male participation — is helping employers fill job vacancies in the tight US labor market. The percentage of prime-age women who are in the labor force climbed…
How to make giving negative feedback a positive experience!
An IT manager spoke with me recently about how he hates doing annual performance appraisals and providing performance feedback, especially when it is negative feedback. “So many employees are really not self-aware and open to the feedback,” he said. No…
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It is time to recruit America’s forgotten workforces.
Are you struggling to find job candidates for entry-level job openings? It is time to consider America’s forgotten workers— the formally incarcerated and those with disabilities, including autism. A recent and insightful article in The Wall Street Journal illustrates the…
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Six strategies to recruit a Veteran workforce of 240,000
This week the US recognizes and thanks veterans for their sacrifice and service to the United States. It is a great time to assess your own veteran recruiting program, or if you don’t have one, to start one up. I…
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Digitizing Your Company? Success Depends Largely on One Factor…
Empirical evidence has long shown that transparent, collaborative and adaptive cultures empower business and financial success by enabling innovation.[i] Now companies are learning that if they do not have innovative cultures their digitization strategies languish. According to McKinsey’s 2018 Global…
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10 Talent Strategies to Support Cultures of Innovation
Companies large and small are racing to digitize their operations and to find the new technology in their domain that will allow them to disrupt their competition and find new markets. The companies that succeed in this race are agile…
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Time to tap 70 million forgotten workers
Shelley Winner had an extraordinary and courageous story to tell about herself in her five minutes of speaking at DisruptHR San Francisco Bay Area last May 31. Shelley is a lovely, tall, slender, young, white woman who had the air…
Talent Strategies Needed to Support Cultures of Innovation
I was honored to present and be part of a panel discussion at one of Silicon Valley’s legacy innovation centers, PARC, a Xerox Company in Palo Alto, July 26, 2018. I began my presentation by asking if everyone believes that…
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Don’t manage to an employee engagement score. Instead, drive business value.
The $74 billion employment engagement industry has a serious problem. After nearly 18 years, it is not driving sufficient business value to justify its costs. Instead, values, business purpose, organizational learning, and culture are the true factors that drive business…
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