Finding that key talent is just the beginning; retaining them is the hard part.
I recently read an article, “The Success Formula”, that talked about the future direction of businesses. Here’s an interesting trend: hiring people not because they fit in a “box-like” job description, but because they have the skills and talents that matches the company’s mission and vision.
Being an avid sports fan for many years, I have recently become even more intrigued with the “inner game” that allows successful sports icons and teams continue their winning ways. There is much to be learned through the amazing parallels between the sports and business world.
Mary Lorenz of CareerBuilder.com recently published an article focusing on management of employees. The ten habits that are pointed out in the article are great and include – Don’t assume people understand your reasoning behind decisions…
While it is a trend to create a diverse team in a workplace, I have found that companies are still using a standard performance model across the board to measure their behaviorally diverse team’s performance.
Several months ago I started evaluating consulting company’s performance evaluations. With much dismay I have found that most [...]
In all areas of life, people talk about how they can improve and sustain performance. How do we get better results and keep good results regularly coming? This is true for people in their personal lives and careers, businesses, sporting teams and so on.
Foundational to building performance to a high level is knowing your DNA [...]
As many people know I have a very deep passion for cricket. My love of cricket even strongly rivals my passion for the DNA Behavior business. So, why not put the two together? That is what I have done this year by launching the Cricket DNA discovery program [...]
In recent weeks we have strongly focused our messaging around “business transformation”. In particular, the need to address the client experience that is being provided in order to transform. So often, leaders regularly talk about getting the right people on board, developing the team and the leadership, having the right product, [...]
In recent months I have written a few blogs about corporate governance and business risk management. I have expressed the view that many of the corporate problems we have today are related to ineffective board governance. It has been interesting being in Europe for the past 2 weeks where this subject [...]
Back in March of this year, I wrote a blog about managing the human risks in your business. This issue has not gone off the radar screen. Identifying the human behavior risks in your business is critical to success. Every person has natural “blind-spots” which, if they go unchecked, can lead [...]
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