“Languishing” is the in-vogue term for today’s widely shared sense of pandemic malaise. According to some psychologists, you can stop languishing with simple steps: Savor the small stuff. Do five good deeds. Find activities that let you “flow.” Change how you think and what you do, and today’s languishing can become tomorrow’s flourishing. But in […]
The benefits of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) are many, varied and rapidly becoming well-known at organizations around the globe. Increased focus on what really drives your strategy forward, enhanced top to bottom alignment and increased engagement from team members finally able to demonstrate their unique contribution to success, are all hallmarks of the OKRs […]
Today, turbulent times are the norm, so we might as well get used to them and get better at dealing with them. Features of today’s turbulent times include: Remote/Hybrid learning Shifting demographics Rapidly advancing technology (sometimes helpful and sometimes not) Global applications and competition Huge pressure on attention spans No expectation of privacy Immediate and […]
While the world’s workplace has been going through extraordinary historical change, the practice of management has been stuck in time for more than 30 years. The practice of management has fallen behind how people work and live and want to experience their lives. We need to adapt. To better understand this situation, Gallup analysts reviewed […]
It’s an enduring truth: A successful organization is opportunity-focused, not problem-focused. Resources, to produce results, must be allocated to opportunities rather than problems. This is one of Peter F. Drucker’s most important principles for sustained success: “An organization will have a high spirit of performance if it is consistently directed toward opportunity rather than toward […]
In a world where workers are rethinking how they balance the flexibility independence offers against the security of traditional employment, how do we create a future of work that works for everyone? That was one of the questions posed at a Web Summit in Lisbon, where more than 60,000 people gathered from around the world […]
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There is a lot of discussion these days about upskilling and reskilling to close competency gaps and help people be more prepared for the workforce of the future. In this way, upskilling and reskilling are at the heart of intentional career development, as organizations align the development of their people to specific knowledge and skills […]
Five steps in our ROI Methodology have the words “Make it Credible.” The key to showing the value of your learning and talent development programs is to be credible with the data, assumptions and analysis. It’s helpful to think about the concepts you encountered (and maybe even avoided) when you studied statistics or took a […]
In the lexicon of global economics, a trade deficit occurs when a country imports more goods and services than it exports. We’ve observed a similar phenomenon among our client companies. It occurs when an organization imports more talent from outside the company than it exports from one part of the company to another part. We […]
