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Today’s leaders face many challenges requiring an effective talent strategy. These include: a prolonged labor shortage in the US, competitive pay issues, big reskilling gaps for AI and digital technology transition, stressed-out workers, finding the balance between hybrid and in…
Read More America’s got talent — with help from an employer brand
In a recent landmark Harvard Business Review article, Peter Cappelli and Ranya Nehmeh advocate for HR returning to its roots as the advocates for employees and their career development. The current business focus on relentless cost-cutting and restructuring during a…
The hottest issue in HR is overcoming the current labor shortage, which exists despite the last month’s hiring boom, and presents troublesome issues for CEOs and CHRO leaders. Last week’s US Department of Labor (DOL) job report showed a shocking…
Read More Hot hiring numbers belie the need for strong HR practices
In today’s tight labor market and with digital technologies changing the skill sets needed by employees, every organization needs a talent strategy for its workforce to ensure profitable growth. Organizations with a good talent management strategy can attract, align, motivate,…
Read More Talent strategy is a must for today’s labor shortage
The percentage of Americans working in alternative work arrangements — such as independent contractors, on-call workers, and those who contract through a third party — has shrunk 0.6% since 2005. According to a US Labor Department report, the total of…
Read More Why it doesn’t matter that the gig workforce may be shrinking…
Your organization can’t afford to stumble with leadership at the CEO, senior management, or middle management levels. But when you look at the top of organizations, 39% of companies today have no viable candidate to replace their current CEO; and…
Read More The Key to Succession Planning Is Three Components of Leadership Potential!
That was the best training I ever had for team leadership, the director told me, after a half-day employee engagement training. The objective of the program was to improve the relationship building skills of leaders with each of their team…
Every time I hear a presentation from a Silicon Valley based human resources organization about its Big Data analysis of the workforce, I remember Peter Cappelli’s article in the Harvard Business Review, “There’s No Such Thing as Big Data in…
Read More Can we face the truth? HR doesn’t have Big Data. Now what?
I have long felt that nothing is worse than a big company that can’t grow organically. So, writes retiring GE CEO, Jeff Immelt in a piece for the Harvard Business Review on the eve of the transition of GE’s leadership.…
Read More Reinvented talent management guides GE’s transformation
“I hate Human Resources,” the CEO began. “When I worked at Sun Microsoft, Human Resources was always getting in the way, with its bureaucracy and rules.” The sneer on his face suggested that he not only hated Human Resources policies…
Read More Lessons from a San Francisco Start-up and Travis Kalanick
