Once you, as a company leader or department/functional leader, decide to focus on increasing collaboration in the workplace the first step is to assess readiness. This involves exploring a bit of cultural reality. What’s really going on? What are the true values, beliefs,
Collaboration: More than a Buzzword
I believe you can drive business success through successful, meaningful and purposeful collaboration while simultaneously energizing employees. Individual organizations choose to embrace and promote collaboration for any number of reasons some of which will be unique to an entity and/or its
Great HR: Technology Driven HR – #HRTechConf
I had a conversation with a colleague the other day about the upcoming HR Technology Conference and Exposition. “Do HR practitioners attend?” he asked. “I always thought that conference was for IT people.” I had to set him straight. I told
The HR Hamster Wheel
Someone reminded me yesterday about how important it is that those of us who work in Human Resources or Leadership roles remember that we can also be the voice for those without a voice. The entry-level employees, the teenagers working
