HR Thoughts, Trends & Tips2024-02-14T14:10:45-08:00

A Collection of HR Thoughts, Trends & Tips

Stop Screening Candidates: What We Can Learn from Designers

By |January 3, 2019|

Screening candidates isn’t helping you. In technology, user experience design is very close to our hearts. We are constantly trying to make it easier for our prospective customers to gain value from our products and services. We try to make the experience as welcoming as possible and take them on a journey. When it comes to our prospective team members, perversely, we seem to take the opposite approach. When people express an interest in joining our teams, we seem to go to great lengths to push them away. We actively discourage them. We screen them. […]

1102, 2014
“Tell me now, right now …and change”

By |Blogs, Frontpage Articles|

How do we manage performance (i.e. give and receive feedback, set objectives and coach) inside the new conversational context? What does the new conversational context mean in today's organizations? People everywhere are tweeting, posting, communicating, connecting in real time. There is an authenticity of commentary and break-down in formal hierarchies. The need for immediate feedback that  this all brings, drives changes right now in how we are running our performance reviews and sharing with our people [...]

1111, 2013
“Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast”

By |Blogs, Frontpage Articles, HR Advisory & Facilitation|

From as far back perhaps as our first fascinating high school biology class we couldn't help pondering "the chicken or the egg". We later learned that this dilemma and conclusion extended well beyond biology.Then came "nature or nurture", psychology 101, and the plot thickened. There was something to sink our ideologically hungry, pre-adult teeth into at last. If you were anything like me, it took almost a decade to formulate a well balanced opinion giving [...]

1111, 2013
“From trashing to joining the modern workforce conversation”

By |Blogs, Frontpage Articles, HR Advisory & Facilitation|

[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”] People always criticize whats new. Change is scary, but the pace of change isn’t phased by our emotional preferences or blockages. The pace of today’s change is as fast as your internet connection on a high speed router. People who are under 35 years old today, will make up 75% of the global workforce by 2025. Yes, what I said was “People who are under 35 years old today, will make [...]

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