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Category:hr & talent management
Corporate Culture, The Balanced Scorecard, and The Grand Jury
Culture eats strategy for breakfast. It's a well-established cliché, and not without merit. But as long as you follow the rules, culture can't get you in any real trouble. Right? Let's consider a new line... Culture eats…
Easter Eggs Are Not for Employees
As we wrap up another Easter weekend, I’ve been thinking – again – about the idea of Easter eggs and how they relate to our work environments. But this time it’s not from the perspective of the boiled eggs and treats, but from the…
A new way to bully the bullies – Mental Health in the Workplace
Mental health has been at the forefront of many conversations this week as Bell Canada has reported on the results of the ‘Bell Let’s Talk’ campaign. The campaign has a goal – like many of these corporate initiatives – to raise money…
How Teams Make Good Decisions
Teams and collaboration have never been more important in the workplace; more and more Gen Y’s and Gen Z’s are joining the workforce and expect group work and sharing ofideas/information to be the norm. The world is mobile and…
How to make your employees care about quality
You can’t. There are certainly still those managers who think they can tell their people what to do, what to think and what to care about – then ‘Prest-o, Change-o!’ – some magic happens, and everyone on the production floor is…
Transforming the Public Service: Personal Adaptation to Change
I recently attended the conference Transforming the Public Service 2012: Weathering the Perfect Storm, presented by the Conference Board of Canada. My main take-away was that public service transformation is subsidiary to the global…
10 Suggestions for ‘Boomer’ Executives
The clash of values between the different generations in today’s multi-generational workplace creates some significant leadership challenges – but they are not impossible. Managers and executives from the Baby Boom generation face some…
Personal skills for surviving organizational change
Transformation projects fail all the time – it’s common knowledge. The data can be difficult to nail down, but it is consistently reported somewhere between 1/3 and 2/3 of all business transformation projects do not achieve their goals.…
The 9 Ingredients of Effective Teams
For years the workplace focused on the individual. This has been evolving, and in today’s workplace you can no longer sit alone in your office plugging away on your desktop – you need to be mobile and connected. Leaders now…
To lead change, we must learn to teach (Part 4)
Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events. – Albert Einstein In Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3, we discussed memory and the ways in which we create networks of information. Now, let's look at the missing…
To lead change, we must learn to teach (Part 3)
I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry. – Peter Davison Let’s recap what we have discussed so far in this series. In Part 1 we explored the concept that…
Are You Worthy of Being a Leader?
Are you into power? Does holding authority over others give you a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction? Before you answer these two questions take a moment to reflect. Be honest with yourself. I’ve been a student of…
To lead change, we must learn to teach (Part 2)
I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner. – Aleister Crowley In Part 1 of this series we explored the idea that humans do not think in…
To lead change, we must learn to teach (Part 1)
If I can’t picture it, I can’t understand it. - Albert Einstein We think without words, without language. This strikes a great many of us as nonsense. I find it especially true for those of us who spent years…
The 6 Inner Leadership Selves
Being a leader, in whatever capacity, is not a one dimensional affair. There are many ways we can practice leadership: at work, in our community, at home or in unexpected crisis situations. One thing is clear: you definitely don’t have…
Demoralized Workforce – What can a manager do?
Thousands of public service employees are still waiting to find out their fate; will their jobs be affected by budget cuts, will they find another or better position elsewhere in government, should they start buffing up their LinkedIn…
Are You a Post-Heroic Leader?
You don’t have to be very old to have witnessed major change in the world in just the past few years. Look at what’s happening with the Arab Spring, initiated by one young on December 18, 2010, in Tunisia, subsequently spreading to…
Tapping Your Innovation Potential
“Doing more with less” has once again become the mantra for executive leaders – and now is the time to capitalize on the opportunity to harness your innovation potential. Budgets have been allocated. Meetings are frantic, issues get…
Are You a Lousy Manager?
The HBR Daily Stat recently pointed to a post by Jim Clifton, Chairman and CEO at Gallup – What Makes Workplaces Miserable. The basis of the discussion was about the congressional hearings in the U.S. that were investigating the…
Do you praise your employees enough?
Most of us can recall the familiar sound of our mothers’ warnings: “If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all!” This is great in theory, but as managers and leaders we have to recognize the importance of…
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