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Unconscious Bias and its Impact on Business Practice
We tend to believe that we are seeing everything in its complete form, however, it’s not possible for us to see the world as it is. Instead, we see the world through the lens of our experiences, biases and various identity factors. As a result, the assumptions we hold shape the decisions that we make, but these decisions may be creating unequal outcomes for our employees.
Pull the Right Levers, Prove Your Value to the Business
HR often does a poor job marketing itself and demonstrating its value to the business. Leaders are naturally suspicious of initiatives that can’t be directly tied to the bottom line. Dave Forman believes HR does, in fact, have a variety of ...
Read moreGo Beyond Frequent Surveying to Increase Employee Engagement in 2017
Over the past year, we saw a wave of organizations adopt the practice of “continuous listening” by more frequently surveying their employees. While this represents a great step forward in the way organizations seek to engage, motivate, and retain their people, it won’t be enough to continue to engage the workforce in 2017. Organizations will need to master the art and science of analyzing and presenting employee feedback—going beyond just frequent surveys and focusing instead on action, in order to sustainably improve people success this upcoming year.
Effective Change Leadership Requires Action
Today, top level executives have more pressure than ever to deliver differentiated products and winning strategies to the marketplace. Much of the overall design vision and ability to give clients what they need before they themselves know it, ...
Read moreCurb Complexity as Your Organization Grows
I always saw complexity as my nemesis throughout my career. Whether in product, strategy, or operations, complexity always found a way to creep in and undermine strategies we put in place. Our devised strategy just didn't matter unless we could breach through the high wall of complexity the organization had built over the years.
Become an Alignment Leader: Position Your Organization to Win
Explore the role of alignment leaders and the benefits they can provide to your organization. Alignment leaders can help organizations better understand how choices affect their organization, build the capacity to sustain change, and transform stumbling blocks into strengths.
Designing and Implementing a Successful Business Model
Your business model details what problem you will solve for your customers and how you will do so in a distinctive way that will ensure a profitable bottom line. But practically speaking, how will you create an organization that will allow you to ...
Read moreTurnover Is Killing Us!
It’s expensive to attract, train, and replace employees: the Bureau of National Affairs estimates that turnover costs U.S. businesses over $11 billion annually. The non-profit workplace improvement organization Catalyst estimates it costs between 50–60% of an employee’s annual salary to replace them, with total costs* as high as 150–200%, depending on their position in the company — and it will take an average of 52 days to do it.
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