If you’ve had the chance to read up on the future of the workforce both domestically and globally, you’re no doubt aware that we are facing a significant shortage of critical skills across nearly all industries. A substantial subset of this trend is the lack of leadership development or succession planning currently in place to groom the next generation of executives. Corporate leaders everywhere are, or should be, planning how to address these issues. While [...]
Today we’re talking about talking (and while I think it’s a worthwhile area of discussion, I can’t help but feel that it’s a perfect satire of the ills of the corporate workplace in general… right in line with haveing meetings to plan meetings and making decisions to make a decision, etc.), and more specifically vocabulary in the workplace. Michael Haberman has done a very good job of sharing the issues facing how our vocabulary shapes our thoughts and [...]
Soliciting employee feedback and input should be part of every company’s normal business process. For small businesses, this responsibility may fall directly on the owner, director, or manager, while larger organizations hand this off to the HR department. Regardless of the size of your company, however, eliciting honest and valuable information from employees is extremely difficult, and requires a strategic plan. Here are some tips to help make sure your employees are giving you the [...]
This post: Hiring People Who Can Handle Ambiguity « The Staffing Advisor, does a great job providing simple and effective tips to uncovering an applicants ability to handle ambiguity. While not going into too much detail about the value of these folks, it’s an excellent and quick read. From my vantage point, it seems that our economy is now built and growing on industries and job functions where dealing with ambiguity is an essential characteristic. [...]
Is it my imagination, or are the simplest truths always the greatest truths? My friend at Human Race Horses has touched on something in his “personal leadership epiphany” that I’m certain strikes a chord with all who read it. In one simple statement, he encapsulates what’s often at the root of poor performing employees, managers, teams, departments, divisions, and entire companies. Every organization needs do’ers and leaders, and despite the fantasy-land ideal of a “hands-on [...]