If you’re working at change in your organization you know that it’s a long road, and one that requires companions on the journey – and a guide doesn’t hurt either. A thought leader in the world of business, John P. Kotter, in his book Leading Change offers eight steps that lead to real and lasting change that we recommend and support through Insight’s services. They’re useful, and while we recommend the book we’ve also summarized the steps below to give you an idea of where to begin. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions at info@insightsc.com. Continue Reading »
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. Continue Reading »
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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 firm, do an excellent job of exploring the centers and edges of scenario planning. Continue Reading »
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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. Continue Reading »
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(Reprint from Spring 2008)
Tom Coughlin. Bobby Knight. Both are names you might recognize; they’re coaches whose unique — even controversial — coaching styles have led to great success. Continue Reading »
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A survey conducted by Barry Admon and Murray Axmith finds that many executives feel a sense of social and relational isolation due their prominent positions. According to an article in Academy of Management Executive, loneliness is specifically identified as one of the major primary health risk factors that CEOs and other business executives face. Continue Reading »
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Performance reviews should be positively oriented toward achieving future goals and success. At Insight, we believe that two-thirds of a traditional “performance review” should focus on an employee’s future and only one-third should evaluate his past. In fact, that’s why we designed BLOOM® to include so many features that promote employee growth and improvement and why we prefer the term “performance planning.” Continue Reading »
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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.
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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. Continue Reading »
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We hear about the recession daily – even hourly if we’re regularly tuned in to mass media. You can do something to protect your business. Continue Reading »
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