If your company is looking to make progress on employee engagement, you may want to get out your trowel, sharpen your clippers, and put on a sensible pair of boots because the garden may be where you should be looking for inspiration. According to a recent article from Forbes, employee engagement scores really haven’t changed
Spike Lee has never been afraid to speak his mind. Over the last four decades, the Oscar-winning filmmaker has garnered as much fame for his polemics as for directing such classics as She’s Gotta Have It, Do the Right Thing, and Malcolm X. So when we invited him to be a keynote speaker at Talent
When change happens so fast it makes you dizzy, you usually have two choices: You can curl up on the couch with a cup of hot tea and wish everything would stay the same. Or you can view change as an exciting opportunity to evolve and grow. Futurist April Rinne, author of Flux: 8 Superpowers
Bias in interviewing is a massive problem. Not only does it trample your DEI goals, it leads to terrible hiring decisions — hiring the person you like vs. the person who can get the job done. How do you know if you are bringing bias into an interview? Here’s an easy test. Put your fingers
Misalignment is the root of all evil in recruiting. Misalignment between the hiring manager and recruiter, between the hiring manager and their interviewing team, between the hiring manager and their boss, between the hiring manager and their candidate, between compensation approvers and the recruiter or hiring manager. I could go on. Misalignment is all around
The skills necessary to do our jobs are changing rapidly. “A generation ago,” writes Harvard Business Review, “the half-life of the value of a skill was approximately 26 years. Now the half-life is often less than five years.” As a result, companies around the globe are pumping more than $380 billion into learning and development
When Jacinda Ardern became the prime minister of New Zealand in 2017 at the age of 37, she also became the world’s youngest female head of government. Where did she turn for leadership principles as she led her island nation through the pandemic, an economic downturn, a volcanic eruption, and a terrorist attack on two
SHRM defines performance management as “the process of maintaining or improving employee job performance through the use of performance assessment tools, coaching, and counseling as well as providing continuous feedback.” But far too many organizations stop at the first part — performance assessment — and miss the opportunity to actually improve employee performance. Only about
This post is based on a recent Redefining Work podcast with Lars Schmidt and NASA’s April Jordan. You can listen to the full episode here. NASA is pretty clear about the allure of a diverse workforce. Their take: Diversity drives innovation — some bold words for an agency that’s about as innovative as they come.
Imagine a world where a recruiter can surface the best candidates with one simple prompt. Imagine a world where all employees at a company have access to a great career coach. This is no fantasy. In fact, LinkedIn is launching a groundbreaking set of generative AI–powered tools that will help employers hire qualified candidates and develop
