Communication

Ask For Help

Off to the weekend. Looking forward to having my kids teach me.

This is a story of what I learned from Kendra, my almost 3 year old girl. Last night we walked to the park. Kendra is a cautious little girl, but still loves to do things on her own. I am her Dad, I love to help her all the time.
20 February, 2012 /

Managing Change

I feel like there has been a tsunami of change in the last few months and the second wave is coming. The good news is that I study leadership and managing change in organizations, so I should be prepared. Then reality sets in and having the knowledge does not reduce the physiological reality of change. As a change agent in organizations, I have a tool kit of professional techniques to create clarity, communicate a desired future, and involve people in the process. Yet change is still difficult. We mitigate the reality of change but we still have to generate the energy to achieve it. That has a consequence.
23 January, 2012 /

Employee engagement offers new challenges in economic downturns.

During times of plenty (economic growth) - we have many people focused on entitlements (pay, rewards, training, etc). It is the me time.
31 October, 2011 /

PlanningHow do Workforce Planning and Succession Planning Relate to Talent Management?

In our previous post, A Comprehensive Definition to Talent Management, we proposed that a more effective notion of TM is:
“Talent Management is the business process that continuously meets our needs regarding timely access and use of talent in highly effective business driven ways.”
At the simplest level, we can think of meeting our talent needs through internal and/or external talent sources: staffing or contracting in one form or other.
Workforce and Succession Planning efforts are internal TM activities. That focus on the “inventory management” aspects of TM. They both deal with ensuring orderly replacement of talent as these needs arise.
06 October, 2011 /