#SXSW Exclusive: Building a 21st Century Workforce
I’ve been thinking a lot about my 10-year-old daughter and how her future job and career has likely not been developed yet. I encourage her to participate in technology development (she recently created her own website, says the proud mom), but I can’t say for certain how the skills she’s learning today will be relevant […]
Using Design Thinking in Your Quest for Impactful Innovation
Design Thinking requires having the customer at the core of any product or service that’s being created or improved upon.
Change Management Lessons From Spilled Coffee on the Train
It can happen to any of us and this morning it happened to me. I spilled coffee on a crowded train. The folks on the train reacted somewhat similar to the way they might if a colleague or teammate screwed up on a project or deliverable unintentionally. This is not the first time this has […]
Managing Your Remote Workforce
One of the biggest challenges for companies today is that our workforces are becoming more decentralized. Managers are leading teams that are in different locations or working remotely. This makes communication challenging as we get less face time with team members and organizational leaders, but also it makes hiring equally challenging. I should know, I […]
Employee Orientation Is Day One and Nothing More
Not too long ago Shelly Wallace Johnson wrote a great post on on-boarding. Today, I’d like to focus on one piece of employee onboarding, orientation. Orientation. It’s the worst day of your job, right? Employee orientation brings forth memories of boring policies and procedures, filling out payroll paperwork, your new hires sitting in a room watching […]
Do You Know What’s Lurking in Your Company’s Private Messages?
Out-of-the-box, many of these platforms don’t provide administrators easily-accessible visibility into private employee messaging.
