The business of human resources has evolved. It’s no longer just about personnel and risk mitigation, although, these certainly still occupy a good deal of the HR professional’s time. Now it’s about engagement, it’s about getting the most out of your workforce and driving business results. But, even engagement had evolved beyond what it was […]
Prescient Strategists had the opportunity to attend the AM&AA conference this past July. We had a great time, met lots of great people and heard lots of great things taking shape in the world of mergers and acquisitions. If there was one thing that stood out most clearly to us, it was the industry’s new […]
Failure may be the world’s greatest teacher, but in the corporate world, I’ve seen very little evidence of us paying much heed to it. We hear industry titans talk about failing all of the time. We hear them tell us that taking those early risks paid off in ways unimaginable. But interestingly, in most corporate […]
It feels like human resources has been trying for so long to be legitimized, that they have overlooked some of their core strengths of what they could do for the business. This isn’t about the tactical or the strategic arms of HR, it’s about both. Both are relevant to the business, albeit in different ways […]
Culture may be set from the top, but it’s lived from the bottom up. It’s the experience of the employees’ day in and day out that create how the culture lives, thrives or dies in an organization. We’ve talked in the past about the formal and the informal distinction of any organizational culture. The formal […]
New research on building trust in organizations was just released by Interaction Associates and the Human Capital Institute. They look at how high performing organizations build trust through three key behaviors. It’s important, because they note that trust is built, not inherently present like most organizations and leaders believe. Trusting that you’ll pay me at […]
It’s a quiet revolution, a small step forward in how we think about organizations and the systems that we use to run them. It’s a nod to the next generation, it’s the culmination of technology disrupting the ways we work and how we think about work. There’s a subtle transformation taking shape across Corporate America. […]
I have had the chance this week to work with a team on change management. We focused on team norms and patterns of interaction between team members. We talked a lot about expectations and behaviors and I pushed them into some uncomfortable positions. In the end, we managed to develop a new framework for how […]
Engagement levels continue to be a concern for most organizations. Employee engagement hasn’t rebounded to post 2008 levels yet, but we continue to ask employees to do more with less. The causes of disengagement range across a wide spectrum of issues. But the focus here today is to look at a few more closely and […]
