According to Gallup, by 2025, Millennials will make up 75 percent of the workforce. They will be the majority of the rank and file and hold the majority of leadership positions. This bodes well for companies that are embracing diversity and inclusiveness. Gallup contributors Camille Patrick and Ella Washington say Millennials are uniquely positioned to advance this workplace […]
Read More →For quite some time, business culture experts have made the distinction between a workplace’s cognitive culture and its emotional culture. Cognitive culture, according to the Harvard Business Review, sets the tone for how employees think and behave. Are they, for example, customer-focused, innovative, team oriented, competitive? Emotional culture is about shared affective values, and the norms and assumptions […]
Read More →Good self-awareness includes knowing how invisible, powerful forces can lead to making bad, unethical choices. Forbes.com contributor Travis Bradberry recently shared some of these outside-of-our-awareness influences and how they can affect us. The compensation effect. Using good deeds to justify bad ones. If people perform the acts of a good person, they might feel justified in sometimes behaving […]
Read More →Harvard Business Review contributor Michael Watkins says your first steps after starting a new job can determine if you’ll succeed or constantly face uphill battles. To provide focus and intent, he says to ask yourself these five questions. How will I create value? Find out what each stakeholder you’re tied to expects you to accomplish and when, […]
Read More →One way agile companies foster growth is they cut down on the complexity of their decision-making processes. We don’t always realize the high price we pay when our systems require significant time and input before a decision can be made. Gallup suggests that if you’re looking to streamline your company’s decision-making process, start by thinking […]
Read More →As companies strive to become more diverse and inclusive, Gallup says leaders first need to understand the difference between the two terms. They sum it up with the words of Netflix CEO Verna Myers, who says “Diversity is being invited to the party; inclusion is being asked to dance.” For strategies on this front to truly hold, […]
Read More → If your company values collaboration over independence, Fast Company recommends that hiring managers ask the following questions to find the people who are the best fit for your collaborative culture. Tell me about a time you worked with a team. What was your approach to collaborating with your teammates? What role did you play […]
Read More →Is your company’s culture shifting and evolving? If the answer is yes, and you’re in the process of hiring new people, here are the questions Fast Company recommends asking during interviews. Tell me about a time you encountered a difficult problem you didn’t know how to solve. Give me an example of a time when […]
Read More →How To Dig Beneath The Surface of The Polished Resume and Interview Skills Sometimes we make the wrong hiring decision, regardless of how thorough our interview process is or how outstanding the candidate’s resume appears. Organization Development Coach Douglas Bush offers these three questions – in addition to the interview — that can help determine […]
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