By Dick Grote - hbr.org After 30 years of consulting, I thought I had run across every question regarding performance management. But a client recently came up with an intriguing query that I hadn't encountered before. Bob wrote: Sometimes it happens in our business that a management employee...
By Jack Zenger - forbes.com One lesson that you learn reasonably early in life is that if you need to be somewhere at a specific time, and you know roughly how long it will take to make the trip to your destination, it is important to...
By Jeff Russell - GeniusHR Synopsis: Employee leave laws and regulations are adding new entitlements at all levels of government, and the burden is on HR to avoid liability for violations. Open up any HR blog or newsletter these days, and one constant lament is the Sisyphean...
By Mano Ramakrishnan - businesstimes.com.sg They are adept at harmonising paradoxes and correcting imbalances in the organisation. WHEN we ask CEOs in Asia what their key challenges are, many tell us the speed of business growth continues to outpace their ability to develop leaders. Hence, a strategic...
By Graham Scrivener - hrmagazine.co.uk As many HR professionals are aware, behaviour change is key to knowing if leadership training and development has been effective. But it's being able to demonstrate and sustain change as well as show that behaviours are having a positive impact on...
By Frédéric Parisien - employmentlawtoday.com Quebec workers' compensation board finds employee Facebook postings can be used by employers as evidence if the information is obtained honestly and fairly. Can employers use information from their employees’ Facebook pages in managing the employment relationship? Not an age-old question, but...
By Margie Meacham - astd.org Most people would agree that today’s leaders need to be experts at developing and building trust with their team members. This requirement has become even more important as Millennials have entered the workforce. So far, this generation seems to place a...
By Scott Beagrie - hrmagazine.co.uk We assess the cutting-edge technologies and tools that have the potential to revolutionise recruitment As anyone who has queued overnight in the cold for the latest smartphone will tell you, keeping up with technology isn’t easy. But with many HR departments taking...
By Allan Harris - astd.org Infuse instructional design methods with practical project management principles. I was fooling myself. I truly believed my training and development projects were successful. However, "successful" meant something different for me than it did for my sponsors. I missed a few deadlines or...
By Kevin Cashman - forbes.com Part 2: Conversation with Paul Laudiciana on Global CEO Leadership Paul Laudicina, Chairman Emeritus, A.T. Kearney, author of Beating the Global Odds, shared with me his astute perspective on a new value proposition for CEO and organization success that requires peripheral vision, a...