Getting Leaders on Board with Change

A common assumption is that leaders are on board with a change happening within the organization; but this is not an accurate assumption. Leaders need time to come to terms with change just as any other employee does. This is particularly true when a particular leader...

Sound At All Familiar?

Congratulations! Your business has just acquired another small company, and as HR Director, you’ll be leading yet another ‘tuck-in’ integration. No worries, right? You’ve done this a dozen times before. But the employees from the last two acquisitions and the legacy...

Engaging Employees in Change Sooner Rather than Later

Every initiative launched in the organization, especially more complex ones that are likely to require significant change, need to include a strategy on how and when employees will be engaged in the initiative.  And the “when” should be earlier on, when it is known...

GUEST BLOG: The Fish & The Aquarium

The following post comes from Rodney Evans and Alison Randel. Rodney and Alison are both from The Ready. Rodney is a keynote presenter at Strategic HR in 2020. The Fish & The Aquarium Work isn’t perfect. Your team has issues, your boss is irrational, you spend...

Katie’s Corner: How are you, HR?

For many years, I have had a little Sunday ritual of sitting down for morning coffee and opening PostSecret.com.   The website, started by Frank Warren, has a simple purpose: to give strangers a place to anonymously share their secrets – big, small, silly, or...