Archive for the ‘Company Culture’ Category

Talent Drain on the Brain

Missing talent

Missing talent in your organization

As most American companies continue their ongoing emergence from the recession, they are faced with a significant problem: Despite persistent levels of high unemployment, there is an increasingly serious dearth of the highly skilled talent they require to remain competitive.

To some degree, the recession …

Leading a Corporate Turnaround

Business Performance

Corporate Business Performance

In an organization with deteriorating performance, some of the most important roles are those responsible for creating a new strategy and securing the talent to make that strategy successful. Organizations that have successfully overcome negative momentum often do so by securing new leadership with a proven ability …

How to Motivate and Retain Knowledge Workers in Organizations

Retain Your Knowledge Workers

Globalization, the proliferation of technology, workforce diversity, and the knowledge society are creating complex workplace interactions that require people to handle ambiguity and solve problems based on experience or tacit knowledge. Knowledge workers who have the ability to:

  • process
  • synthesize
  • generate knowledge

In order to problem-solve …

Taking the Next Step

Women in business

Women working together

Women account for 56 percent of undergraduate accounting majors and 36 percent of MBAs but only 9 percent of CFOs, and experts say the problem is that women lack the connections men make among each other informally. To counter this, companies have tried offering mentorship programs to …

Leadership in the Workplace: Back To School Basics For Small Business Owners

Business Seminar

Great leaders never stop learning

Great leaders are also great learners and in order to lead other individuals successfully, supervisors managers and business owners need to take part in strong leadership training programs.

Such programs should address such topics as listening and communicating effectively, giving negative feedback in a way …

One Way to Lose Employees: Train Them

A recent paper published in the Journal of Applied Psychology suggests that corporate training programs can be damaging to an organization if employees lack opportunities for advancement.

The American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) estimates that American companies spent $134.1 billion on training and education in 2008.…