“She needs your respect, not your comfort. Needs your support, not your sweet words. Girls with dreams become women with vision. All she needs is the freedom to create her own world.” ~ Bithika Halder Let’s be honest! Talking about gender at a workspace is more or less a taboo. Every company […]
The 2018 HR Technology Conference is now in the books, having wrapped up about two weeks ago. As I usually do, I’ve spent the time since then mulling over what I heard and saw there, reviewing my notes and tweets and thinking about the show as a whole. The one thing that stood out to […]
Last month, I spoke with more than 1,400 employees who were afraid that the culture at their company, which had been carefully cultivated for years, was about to change. Like many companies who are part – or become part – of an enterprise parent company, this is a very real fear. In fact, when I […]
Each year the Society for Human Resource Management Annual Conference and Expo has a theme, some sort of idea that’s woven throughout the event, a guiding force for speakers and attendees as they navigate the show. This year’s event, which wrapped up in Chicago last week, encouraged us all to “Expand Your World.” What exactly […]
Sexual harassment in the workplace has taken an unprecedented center stage in recent months, with waves of new high-profile cases coming to light. With Time Magazine naming #MeToo as its person of the year, and FT honoring Susan Fowler as “Person of the Year” for her blog post about the problems she experienced at Uber, it seems that the […]
In the future, when information and knowledge become more readily assessable to everyone and robots begin to replace humans at work, only one question remains… what will the future of workplace look like? Many believe that robots represent the future workforce and it is just a matter of time when technology will replace a lot […]
Hiring for and encouraging culture fit within our organizations is a concept that sounds ideal, in theory. The problem is that the reality of culture fit is often misaligned with what it should, in fact, represent. In a recent post I set the stage for this misalignment; in this post I’d like to delve into […]
Company culture is a priority that is becoming more and more important to companies and HR professionals. In fact, the “2018 HR Trends Report” from McLean & Company cites culture as now the number one priority for the companies surveyed. So the idea of hiring for culture fit is a concept that has gained much […]
Courage. What does that word mean to you? Does it evoke images of great, daring deeds? Of facing a perilous situation head on with no regard for one’s own safety and well-being, like a fire fighter barreling head on into a blazing inferno? But does it ever evoke thoughts of the workplace, about being a […]
Throughout history, our workplaces have continued to evolve. Back in the days of the Industrial Revolution and the dawn of mass production, focus was on efficiency, scale, quality control, and essentially getting “stuff” made. Employees worked on production lines, performing the same tasks over and over, and work was a means to an end. […]