Today’s Recruiting Realities Chapter
Different types and sized of organizations have different structured roles for which they recruit.
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E-Learning, Universities, and Professional Development – A Disruption that is just Beginning
E-learning has become something everyone is familar as a result of the last 2 years of the Covid 19 pandemic. I first wrote about the promise and impact of E-learning in…
Effective Business Coaching: What Does It Take
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The Key to Staff Engagement: Performance Contracting, Not Performance Appraisal
Use the controls at the bottom of the PDF viewer to zoom in and out. Or use the forward and backward buttons on each page. to move through the pages. Power appraisal is a power…
Social Intelligence for Business Coaches
Just what is social intelligence or emotional intelligence? If you are a business coach, you need to have a clear understanding what it takes to be socially intelligent. This…
A Manager’s Short Guide to Resistance to Change
I was asked today to comment on a situation in which an organization was experiencing serious resistance to change around the implementation of a software application. They had…
The Contradictions in Corporate Training
Social paradigms drive our thinking in ways that we don’t often recognize. The university education model dominates our thinking about corporate skill training, largely because…
10 Things People Learn From History
I started my undergraduate education reading history. I have never stopped, although I moved onto be more fascinated by how people behave at work. This over 10 year old piece of…
Short Guide To Facilitating Planning and Strategy Meetings
Planning and strategy meetings call upon the meeting chair to ‘manage the process = how the participants work together’ and ‘contribute to the content – what the participants are…
What Kind of Meeting Should I Call?
People spend a lot of time in meetings at work. Most of the time they complain that meeting time is wasted time. It does not need to be with just a little pre-meeting planning.
Systematic Consensus – It is Great, but it is not New
Consensus is the gold standard for many democratically oriented group facilitators. Facilitating it takes an awareness of the underlying group psychological dynamics I approach…
Society for the few – not the many: gigs, robots, and the continuing undermining of democratic society
It is not gigs and robots, bu the way that members of the ‘few’ are and plan to use them that undermines the stability of a democratic society.
4 Core Beliefs About Life In Organizations
I have worked in organizations for decades. Much of my career was either as a professional ‘doer’ or as a manager | executive fixing organizational problems. I came to 4 core…
AI Devices, Ethics, and Human Free Will
AI Devices, Ethics, and Human Free Will Many people are posting on the Web about the need to ensure that AI devices are ‘ethical’. They miss the point. The people creating AI…
Most Soft Skill Training Investments Just Pour Money Down the Toilet
Does your organization invest in people or soft skill training for your managers and your high potential | high performers. Do you invest in technical or hard skill training?…
Don’t Let the Idea of Micro-Aggression Throw Your Workplace Investigation Off-Course!
Summary Despite the growing use of terms like ‘micro-aggression’, they are not really helpful to workplace investigators. They need to conduct their investigations in a way that…
Self-Awareness and People Values: Essentials for ROI from Soft Skill Training Investments
Not all training is created equal. When evaluated from the viewpoint of ROI on the training investment in terms of productivity increase, a lot of it leaves much to be desired….
Decisions, Decisions – We all make decisions all the time at work ….
Scroll through this PDF to find out how to get insight into your own decision making style. Build on this self-awareness by seeing how your DM style is the same or different…
When did national leadership become synonymous with global destruction?
We are such a tribal species!!!! Ask the average person anywhere in the world – what do you want for your children? Most people, I believe, would say something like …. “The…
The World is Broke – We can Fix It: Boom Big Ideas
We can change the world in ten years – all it will take is hope, collaboration, money, and a portfolio-based approach to action All the images have embedded links. Click on them…
The 13 Performance Drivers: Exhibiting People Smarts
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The 13 Performance Drivers: Cognitive Ability
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People Perform On the Job, Not Resumes!
Recruiting software vendors are really selling a big lie. “Give me a resume, and I can accurately predict this person’s future performance on the job.” They cannot. Resumes are…