July 6, 2015 Sherman Morrison
Is your company an enthusiastic workplace? Do employees come in chomping at the bit, raring and ready to give each day at work their peak performance? I can practically hear the responses out there among some of you: “Are you kidding?” or “Anything but!” or “In my dreams, maybe.” And there’s the first problem right […]
read moreMay 29, 2015 Sherman Morrison
A few articles back I wrote about Women in the Workforce: Recent Trends, mentioning how women are working for major corporations but they aren’t leading them, with women holding only 16% of the director positions and only 4.6% of CEO positions at Fortune 500 companies. These statistics beg the question: What can women do to […]
read moreMay 28, 2015 Sherman Morrison
Big Data is shaping up to be the buzz trend of the 21st century with the widest-ranging implications and impacts. I can’t think of a single aspect of business where it won’t come into play in some form, including talent management and HR. This is one of those areas where talent management and HR could […]
read moreMay 27, 2015 Sherman Morrison
When you read a statistic from the Corporate Executive Board that nearly 60% of frontline managers underperform during their first two years (source), it makes you wonder what’s really being done in companies to prepare employees for their first crack at management. Apparently, not nearly enough. It’s an all-too-common story: Companies take great workers and […]
read moreApril 27, 2015 Sherman Morrison
As a learning professional, you know your trainings and learning programs are serving an absolutely vital function in boosting the performance of your workforce. You know this, but what do you do when the rest of your company doesn’t seem to be convinced? In fact, what’s more frustrating than your own company resisting your training […]
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