Risk can be scary, but uncertainty can be downright terrifying because the unknown is so much more unpredictable than, well, the predictable. If your company is doing its best to ignore or avoid uncertainty then that’s a problem because it can destroy your business. It can also hold enormous opportunity if you make an effort to engage it.
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Take the bull by the horns: profit from uncertainty
Posted in Leadership, Small Business, Strategic Alignment on January 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Understanding your employees: spotlight on Millennials
Posted in Strategic Alignment, Talent Mangement on January 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
When it comes to understanding how your employees tick it is helpful to look at the characteristics and experiences of their generation. That may be particularly true for the group born between 1978 and 2002: Millennials.
Build Memories of the Future: Create scenarios rather than strategic plans
Posted in Leadership, Strategic Alignment on January 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It’s not possible to predict the future, but it certainly is practical to plan for it. That’s what scenario planning addresses: laying out possibilities, outcomes, and responses. We learn from experiences – others’ as well as our own. Two articles published in the last year by McKinsey & Company, a reputable management consulting firm, do an excellent job of exploring the centers and edges of scenario planning. [More...]
Benefits of Outsourcing HR
Posted in Strategic Alignment on December 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Organizations face many challenges when it comes to human resources: how to recruit, manage, develop, and retrain people. It’s hard for organizations that are experts in building products and services to also be experts at talent management, yet we know that people are our most important assets.
Find the right person for the job with the Whole Mind Interviewing Process
Posted in Recruiting and Hiring, Strategic Alignment on December 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve put our years of Human Resources experience to work by designing a complete interviewing process that assesses all three parts of the mind; for key roles we profile preferences, natural instincts, thinking abilities, and overall job fit.
What you don’t know can destroy your organization
Posted in Strategic Alignment on December 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Organizations in today’s world are facing many changes. According to Kouze and Posner of The Leadership Challenge, decades of research has shown that while the specific changes themselves vary, the factors remain much the same: information, technology, competition, and multitude of options. What has changed is these factors’ context.
Use index tools to guide the employee development process
Posted in Performance Planning, Strategic Alignment on November 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Teddy Roosevelt once said that “the best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”
When you’re running a business, you need to be sure that the members of your team are right [...]
The right skills? The right fit? Take the guesswork out of hiring
Posted in Recruiting and Hiring, Strategic Alignment, Talent Mangement on November 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you’ve been following our blog, you already understand how to align the right people with the right jobs. Now you need to know how to hire for success, too!
It’s imperative that business owners and leaders take every opportunity to know who their employees are and what they want from their lives and work. Such [...]
Ready, set, go! An introduction to job matching
Posted in Performance Planning, Strategic Alignment, Talent Mangement on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of our latest blog posts highlighted the inevitable success that results when you align the right people with the right strategy.
We believe that by understanding that each person has a distinct talent you will frame how they will approach their interests and their work. We also believe that the greater a person’s ability to [...]
The right people + the right strategy = unstoppable success!
Posted in BLOOM Features, Strategic Alignment, Talent Mangement on November 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve said it before — in fact we said it in a recent blog post — but we have to say it again because we truly believe that it’s the key to your business success: your people are your most important asset. We have seen time and again that the right people matched to the [...]
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