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To Get in the Flow, Reinvent Transparency
What are your strengths in practicing transparency across your organization? Knowing the answer is key to understanding who you are as a company and how sustainable performance can be achieved within the network of complex relationships that is redefining the nature of work. With an abundance of information at their fingertips, consumers have more choice [...]
Maximize Your Multigenerations in the New World of Work
Rapid change, connectivity and the sheer velocity of business today is changing the future of work and how work gets done. It’s demanding more from people, leaders and organizations in new and exciting ways. With five generations bringing distinct values, beliefs, experiences and expectations to the workplace, achieving sustainable business now requires a new people [...]
Lift Up Your Leadership, Live Your Best Life
Feeling like your leadership potential is being held hostage? Maybe it is. How can you be sure? Ask yourself these three key questions: How am I able to consistently contribute really great work? How is my work life improving? Am I raising the quality of life for myself and others? If your leadership role feels [...]
Choose to Lead into the Future
There are few things in life better than seeing a workplace community come together to accomplish a huge goal and boost the quality of life for its people. Even more inspiring, perhaps, is the rare leader who at a high level lifts the entire organization by creating an environment that benefits everyone by committing to [...]
A New Way to Power Up Workplace Performance
Do you remember the days when you sat alone in a room with your employee (s) once a year, anxiously explaining how you think this individual has been performing and wishing you had a broader perspective on his contributions to the team? Today’s forward-looking leaders and employees know that annual performance feedback is often too little [...]
Feel Awkward When Recognizing Your Employees? Practice Makes Perfect.
John was a hardworking director for a reputable third-party claims administration company. As he rose through the ranks, many attributed his success to being a self-made leader. On the surface, his success might have been ascribed to an uncanny ability to influence people. However, one day John was faced with a growing set of difficult business circumstances [...]
Wow, Can We Really Do That?
Here we are in the final quarter of 2011 already and with continued economic uncertainties and rapid change, organizational leaders face unique opportunities to inspire great achievement in their employees and workplace. A number of actions are available to forward looking companies who seek an opportunity to refashion the workplace with their people and capabilities [...]
Bring Back the Balance in Reciprocal Relationships
Relationships in the world of social media or in the social organization speak the language of reciprocity. What happens when you find the relationship imbalanced and how can you restore balance? The following, Don’t Be a Social Media Beggar, is a guest post from Future Buzz community member John Boitnott. To view the original at The [...]
What Story is Your Workplace Telling Others?
Founder, Judy White, SPHR, GPHR, HCS is honored to be featured in this month’s issue of Women With Know How Magazine. The full article (with permissions) is available here: Successful companies have more than great products and services. Their performance stems from a clear vision, established strategic priorities, and the ability to act on objectives [...]
It Still Pays
Co-Founder’s Jerk-Free Policy Gives Employees and Clients Something to Celebrate In today’s evolving workplace and uncertain economy, finding reasons to celebrate can sometimes seem like a stretch. But even in hard times, one organization that knows the importance of talent and people offers plenty to celebrate by maintaining a jerk-free workplace. The concept goes back many years, [...]
