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July 7, 2025 | Leadership | No Comments
Change is everywhere — and yet, most change initiatives still fail. Depending on the study, failure rates hover between 60–70%. Despite the best-laid plans, transformation efforts stall out, produce mediocre results, or quietly disappear altogether. Why? Most organizations will tell you it’s due to “culture.” That’s the safe explanation. But the real reason is harder […]
July 7, 2025 | Talent Management | No Comments
When I worked at a management training and consulting firm at the beginning of my career, I learned multiple concepts that have served me well throughout my professional life. Personal Accountability was one, and Total Quality was a close second. If you don’t know about it – Total Quality Management (TQM) was born out of […]
July 7, 2025 | Talent Management | No Comments
We have all witnessed firsthand how business landscapes evolve, often faster than organizations can adapt. The most successful organizations don’t just react to change — they anticipate it. And at the heart of this adaptability lies Organizational Design (OD). It’s more than a set of HR processes or structural tweaks to org charts; it’s a […]
July 7, 2025 | Talent Management | No Comments
After nearly three decades in Human Resources working in the capacity of a Swiss army knife accomplishing all aspects of HR operations from recruiting to M&A integrations — I’m making a deliberate shift. I’m pivoting my focus to Organizational Design, Organizational Effectiveness, Change Management, and Organizational Development. Not because I’ve outgrown HR — but because I’ve […]
July 7, 2025 | Talent Management | No Comments
While there is nothing illegal about companies posting attractive jobs and giving their chosen new hire something completely different and maybe even inferior, it isn’t a great business practice. If you want to retain good talent and decrease turnover of new hires within their first year, it behooves you to look at your end-to-end recruitment […]
July 7, 2025 | Talent Management | No Comments
Having recruited for so much of my career, it pains me to see yet another viable talent pool get overlooked because of inaccurate assumptions on the part of recruiters and hiring managers. I am talking about entrepreneurial people in the form of previous small business owners and self-employed independent contractors and consultants. Many years ago, […]
July 7, 2025 | Talent Management | No Comments
About a year ago, I was shamed in an interview by the CEO of a start-up. At first, based on their aggressive delivery and word choice, I felt I was being tested to see if I could stand up to this person. I have worked with plenty of influential executives who have varying levels of self-awareness in […]
July 7, 2025 | Organizational Effectiveness | No Comments
Throughout my career, I’ve asked thousands of employees and managers what they think the primary function of HR is in their business. Most have told me one of two things 1) to find and hire talent, OR 2) to defend management and to police employee behaviors (which includes firing people). Oh, and I should say, […]
July 7, 2025 | Talent Management | No Comments
Why you should read resumes and talk to more candidates Ahhh…the Applicant Tracking System (aka ATS)…while its’ invention was initially meant to help Recruiters weed out unqualified candidates in order to save their time – that same ATS is also removing a whole lot of qualified candidates before you even see them. Instead of buying into […]
July 7, 2025 | Talent Management | No Comments
I was reading Gallup’s 2022 report about Employee Engagement and it said ’employees who are not engaged or who are actively disengaged cost the world $7.8 trillion in lost productivity, according to their State of the Global Workplace: 2022 Report. That’s equal to 11% of global GDP.’ We all know engaged employees are productive employees […]