• The Social Capital of Online Communities is Embedded in Trust

Enterprise social capital accrues from online communities designed to build participant trust and active participation. It begins with trust building.- By Joshua Ferdinand

• Inviting Frontline and Mid-Level Leaders to Join the Learning Journey

Inviting Frontline and Mid-Level Leaders to Join the Learning JourneyThink the 70/20/10 principles apply only to senior leaders? Think again because frontline and mid-level managers are the people who translate strategy into execution.

• Meeting the New Hiring Challenges of Global Onboarding Programs

Diversity managers know intuitively that diversity programs add value to the organization. Applying the ROI Methodology proves it through metrics.

• Managing Human Capital Risks The Case for Minority Suppliers

Managing Human Capital Risks The Case for Minority SuppliersBy Anaga DalalSuccess for a minority or woman-owned small business is more than just a function of your market share, or the strength of your product: it is also—in large part—a function of the cohesiveness, productivity and motivation of a...

• Who Owns Your Data-Consumerism Reinvented

Knowledge Sharing and Collaboration Meet in Social NetworksInnovative businesses have active social networks that the entire organization can utilize. It is a system that promotes the free flow of innovation-producing knowledge

• The Virtual Organization: Network of Relationships for Innovation

The true power of the virtual enterprise will not be fully unleashed until large corporations understand the importance of virtual networks to disruptive innovation. It is networks of relationships that hold the future of innovation.

• A Winning Strategy: Anticipating and Managing Disruptive Innovation

Disruption is often considered a negative force that threatens business success. In an age of constant change, disruption has become a path to innovation.

• Minority Businesses Need to Be Eco Sharp

Minority Businesses Need to Be Eco SharpIn the Oregon town of Lake Oswego, an African American company is developing an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) that reduces aircraft weight and eliminates the need to carry onboard fuel. This UAV aircraft uses renewable solar energy with rechargeable ultracapac...

• Women Continue to Fill More Corporate Leadership Roles

Women Continue to Fill More Corporate Leadership RolesDespite Gains in Traditionally Male Industries, Female Representation Lags Behind

• Making Data-Driven Decisions Using Human Capital Analytics

Making Data-Driven Decisions Using Human Capital Analytics

• Restoring Civility in the Workplace Among All Employees

The typical workforce now consists of employees who work in the office, remotely, or both. A trend of increasing incivility in the personal online lives of people has crept into online work lives. It is damaging to employee engagement and productivity and harms the business.

• Personalizing Onboarding While Maintaining Continuity and Consistency

Helping people deliver value to the organization as quickly as possible benefits the employee and the company. Developing a system-wide onboarding experience with personalized elements can deliver the desired results.

• Strengthening Aboriginal Communities to Strengthen Youth Wellness

Strengthening Aboriginal Communities to Strengthen Youth WellnessLike most youth, Canada’s indigenous youth develop their identity through family and community, and a relationship with the land. So it makes sense that the strength of communities has a direct bearing on youth health and wellness.

• Bring On the Innovation: Developing a Culture of Continuous Improvement

A culture of continuous improvement supports successful shared services organizations. The first two challenges in developing this culture: Changing mindsets to embrace change innovation; and developing metrics and analytics to measure success. - By Valerie Gomez

• Translating Veterans’ Real World Experience to Leadership Skills

Many veterans thrust into new civilian roles have leadership experience and skills, but they need translation before the employee can succeed.

• Growing Supplier Capacity through Leadership Development

Growing Supplier Capacity through Leadership DevelopmentHigh performing suppliers need high performing leadership, and client organizations are helping them develop the right skills for success.

• Making Canada Work: Indigenous People Inclusion in the Workplace

Making Canada Work: Indigenous People Inclusion in the WorkplaceA country is as inclusive as its least included group of people, and for Canada that group is Indigenous people. To address the issue, Indigenous Works developed a competency model for Indigenous people inclusion in the Canadian economy...

• Driving Gender Equality Through Meticulous Talent Management

Driving Gender Equality Through Meticulous Talent ManagementTech organizations have carefully constructed policies to drive gender equality in the talent process, but they are not enough. Bias continues to express itself in more subtle ways. New approaches are needed to tear down the barriers once a...

• Leadership Development Strategies for the Modern Organization

Leadership Development Strategies for the Modern OrganizationLeadership development needs to reflect the changing needs of both the organization and the workforce. Strategies should incorporate things such as soft skills development and blended learning opportunities that include immersive, virtual,...

• CEO Murray Martin Showcases Diversity at Pitney Bowes

Pitney Bowes is well known for being a leader in the development of mailing, shipping and postage equipment and services. Customers also know the company is a leader in software development including location intelligence applications, secure tracking, data management and document composition and im...

• Purpose-Driven Leadership: A Pathway to Diversity and Inclusion

Throughout the business world, diversity and inclusion are terms which are alternatively embraced and dreaded. While most businesses acknowledge that diverse and inclusive organizations are important for long-term business success, creating such an environment is easier said than done. Entrenched ...

• Linking Internal Leadership Development and Business Goals Drives Value

Developing internal leaders creates a business performance engine that drives up value. The fuel comes from linking leadership development to business goals.

• Improving Organizational Systems to Mitigate Imposter Syndrome

The Journal of Behavioral Science estimates that around 70 percent of the U.S. population has experienced Imposter Syndrome. What can organizations do to combat this disruptive phenomenon?

• Leveling the Leadership Playing Field for Women of Color

The challenges women of color in leadership positions face are daunting because most are based in conscious and unconscious biases which are difficult to root out. The solutions include bias training and executives willing to let the women talk.

• Developing Leaders with Global Agility

Lessons for US and Global Women and Minority Businesses. By Sherry Bloom

• Boundary Spanning Leadership for a Networked World

Boundary Spanning Leadership for a Networked WorldTraditional leadership styles don’t fit well in the interconnected business world that exists today. What is called for is leaders who can span redefined boundaries.

• Lessons from the Golf Course: Changing Cultures of Exclusion

Lessons from the Golf Course: Changing Cultures of ExclusionChanging the global professional golf industry's culture of exclusion has proven to be a slow process. What can businesses learn from this process?

• To Benefit from Business Coaching: Think Golf Lessons!

To get the most out of business coaching, think in terms of golf lessons. Start the process with goals and a willingness to explore biases and new approaches. - By Vincent Pane

• Getting the Most Value from Employee Resource Groups

ERGs are not social clubs. They are employee groups that can make significant contributions to organizational success when structured and managed as value generators.

• Setting up the Business Deal Like the Golf Swing

Every golf swing needs a correct setup if it hopes to lead to a successful shot. Setup the business opportunity like a great golf swing by maintaining position and focus. - By Vincent Pane

• Smart Grid Where’s the Value?

Smart Grid Where’s the Value?The energy companies that provide us with the heat and electricity we use in our homes have been criticized a lot in recent years. Experts have said that the billing systems and price rises that these corporations impose on consumers are underhand, and unclear to consume...

• The Big Picture: Comprehensive Measurement of Inclusion of Veterans

The Big Picture: Comprehensive Measurement of Inclusion of VeteransHistorically, the results of veteran and other inclusion programs have been measured in a piecemeal manner with metrics offering information about factors like recruitment totals and spend per FTE. Metrics that give a more comprehens...

• Volkswagen’s CFO Hardy Brennecke Adds Family to Cultural Diversity Goals

Volkswagen’s CFO Hardy Brennecke Adds Family to Cultural Diversity GoalsYou can get a whole new perspective on diversity by talking to Hardy Brennecke who is the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Volkswagen Group of America. His area of responsibility includes the entire U.S. b...

• Moving Away From Performance Reviews to Performance Management

Annual performance reviews may one day become a thing of the past because they fail to engage and motivate employees. The new trend is ongoing performance management which is better suited for today's diverse and dispersed workforce.

• Communication is at the Heart of Developing Change Management Leaders

Business leaders at all levels of the organization are expected to have change management skills. Yet, many organizations have not invested in developing the most important skill a change champion needs – being an effective change communicator.By Dave Desouza

• Transitioning from the Battlefield to the Office or Entrepreneurship

A desire to utilize military leadership skills and competencies in civilian life are leading veterans to become entrepreneurs. They are not “standing down” and waiting for unemployment. - By Royston Arch

• Communicating the Value of Inclusion of Veterans with Disabilities

Defining and selling the value proposition for including veterans with disabilities in the workforce is necessary in order to gain leadership support. It is an organizational myth-busting, core value–building process. By Royston Arch

• The Virtual Organization: Network of Relationships for Innovation

The true power of the virtual enterprise will not be fully unleashed until large corporations understand the importance of virtual networks to disruptive innovation. It is networks of relationships that hold the future of innovation.

• Using Leadership Skills to Build a Great Supplier Program

Using Leadership Skills to Build a Great Supplier Program To build that great supplier program, it is absolutely essential that you position your company in the correct light. An effective leader knows that the true advocates of his company are not only the staff that work there but also the custom...

• Self-Preservation Biases Serve Self and Influence Decision-Making

There are dozens of biases that impact people’s views of the world and their decision-making process. One of the types of biases frequently found in the workplace is self-preservation bias.

• A “Better” Workforce

A “Better” WorkforceHow far should a company go to improve its workforce? What type of “self-improvement” culture should an organization adopt? In The Conference Board Review’s Summer 2009 cover story, writer Michael Schrage seeks to address these questions—and the many uncomfortable and provocative...

• Learning to Manage Attention as a Leadership Development Strategy

Learning to Manage Attention as a Leadership Development StrategyIt is easy to get sidetracked as technology gains people’s attention. Losing focus on personal learning can hinder job performance and suppress leadership development.

• Using Social Technologies to Find the Future Business Leaders

Using Social Technologies to Find the Future Business LeadersInnovative companies are capitalizing on social technologies as transformational tools for developing connected workplaces.

• Gaining a New Perspective on the Dodd-Frank Act

From any perspective the implementation of the Dodd-Frank Act has been frustratingly slow. For savvy businesses, suppliers and consultants, it offers a sea of opportunities. - By Ravi Singh

• Leadership For a Successful Digital Transformation

Leadership For a Successful Digital Transformation A digital transformation leads to a fundamental change in everything the business does, impacting employees on all levels. Success requires leadership skills in employee engagement, to develop a shared purpose that drives a successful transformation...

• Growing Leaders At Every Level

Growing Leaders At Every Level Business growth demands multi-level leadership development strategies

• Humanizing Leadership Skills for Workforce Digital Fluency

Humanizing Leadership Skills for Workforce Digital FluencyHumans and digital technology are now partners, with important implications for the style of leadership needed to manage the collaboration. In a reimagined workforce, leaders are skilled in enabling both, so soft skills are elevated as key su...

• Building a Culture of Compliance is the Key Driver in Widespread Use of Anti-Corruption Programs

Building a Culture of Compliance is the Key Driver in Widespread Use of Anti-Corruption ProgramsThe commitment of senior corporate management leadership and personal convictions are the most important drivers in company decisions to strengthen anti-corruption programs, according to a report released...

• Financial Services Companies Forging Better Relationships with Suppliers

Financial Services Companies Forging Better Relationships with SuppliersDifferent Metrics Involve Creative Approaches

• Meeting Diversity and Inclusion Goals with Philanthropy

Meeting Diversity and Inclusion Goals with PhilanthropyNew Developments in Effectively Separating ‘A’ hand out/hand up

• Supply Chains and the Case for Inclusion of People with Disabilities

“Supply chains” and “people with disabilities” are two terms that are not commonly used in the same sentence. Now there is growing realization that inclusion in the supply chain can accelerate progress socially and economically. - By Jeremiah Prince

• Medtronic Accomplishments in Supplier Diversity Space are Just the Beginning

Medtronic Accomplishments in Supplier Diversity Space are Just the BeginningMedtronic has developed a world–class global supplier diversity program by embedding supplier diversity in the organization's DNA. It is an impressive effort producing results that are the envy of other companies across...

• Where the Focus is Placed Determines Accuracy of the Shot

Developing mental toughness is a requirement for a successful golf game and successful leadership. The key is not letting distractions divert focus on the end game. - By Vincent Pane

• Transforming to an Agile Organization for Current and Future Success

Transforming to an Agile Organization for Current and Future SuccessAgile organizations are resilient, and resilience is critical to organizational success in a world where disruption can happen with little notice. The transformation process to achieving true agility is a step process, impacting eve...

• Counting Best Practices in the Financial Services Industry

The financial industry is a key economic engine, meaning support for supplier diversity does matter. Leading companies are implementing key best practices to ensure progress. - By Donna Benjamin

• The Role of Spirituality in the Workplace: The Implications and Benefits

The Role of Spirituality in the Workplace: The Implications and BenefitsUnderstanding the role spirituality plays in workplace excellence and work/life balance among workers and leaders alike.

• Seamlessly Aligning Procurement and Business Strategies

Seamlessly Aligning Procurement and Business Strategies A successful procurement strategy is one that seamlessly integrates business strategy with procurement objectives. In order to truly maximize cost savings, procurement strategy must operate in sync with business strategy and evolve into the fut...

• Aging Golfers Tell a Tale of the Need for Reinvention

Golfers age, just like businesses, and age has inevitable consequences. Reinventing the golfer means using golfing experience and knowledge in new ways, while reinventing a business requires adapting to new technologies and becoming more flexible. - By Vincent Pane

• Leadership For a Successful Digital Transformation

Leadership For a Successful Digital Transformation A digital transformation leads to a fundamental change in everything the business does, impacting employees on all levels. Success requires leadership skills in employee engagement, to develop a shared purpose that drives a successful transformation...

• Strategies for Recognizing and Managing Diversity Fatigue in the Workplace

Employees developing diversity fatigue are less likely to listen to diversity and inclusion messaging. Employers must overcome the fatigue to continue realizing the advantages of a cohesive diverse workplace. - By Anna Gonsalves

• Reaching Employees with Mobile Technology…No Matter Their Location

Reaching Employees with Mobile Technology…No Matter Their Location

• IBM Develops Transformational Leaders with Transformational Processes

Being able to identify potential leaders and develop them into transformational leaders is a necessity for any business that wants to achieve sustainability. IBM has developed a unique manager system that focuses on processes and results rather than control.

• Taking Leadership Lessons from Amazing Brazilian Women

Brazil’s roaring economy is in no small part due to the leadership of pragmatic, educated women. Taking its rightful place on the global stage, the country is entering a new era of participation on many levels.

• Motivating Suppliers Through Motivated Supplier Diversity Executives

Procurement can negotiate a good price with suppliers, but that is not enough to realize the full savings, innovation, and capabilities that suppliers can bring if corporate executives brought leadership best practices to supplier relationships. Being satisfied with a good price can lead to supplier...

• Purpose is the “Why” of Everything a Business Does

Purpose is the “Why” of Everything a Business DoesPurpose drives mission and vision and goes right to the heart of a business. Leaders with Purpose understand the “why” of a business and attract others who believe the same.

• Mentorship and Leadership Planning Go Hand-in-Hand

Companies that fail to plan for leadership needs are planning for competitive failure. Mentoring is a key step in ensuring the right talent is available to manage competitive challenges and relevant business initiatives.

• Organizational Justice Climate Influences Workplace Experiences of Disabled

The way employees experience their workplace is largely determined by three elements of the justice climate. The collective beliefs include procedural, interpersonal and informational aspects. - By Jeremiah Prince

• Getting the Best Returns on Investments in Supplier Relationships

Suppliers generate value for their customers, but how does the corporate customer know it is getting the highest returns from supplier relationships? Measuring the ROI of investments in supplier relationships delivers the insights for good decision-making.

• Thriving Through Global Diversity _ Inclusion Core Values

Diversity and inclusion are core values that provide the springboard for global inclusiveness. It takes a comprehensive approach that includes developing allies, ERGs, culturally intelligent leaders, and safe communication and learning opportunities.

• Competing for Chinese Leadership Talent with an Employer Brand

Attracting, developing and retaining leaders in China requires the ability to recognize potential in people who may not be managers at the moment. The competition for high potentials is growing as China’s domestic business market strengthens, putting pressure on Western multinationals. - By Dave Des...

• Technology Integration Group Helps Others Power Up Their Strategic Goals

TIG is a remarkable small company prov Technology Integration Group Helps Others Power Up Their Strategic Goals

• The New Digital Frontier: Attracting and Retaining Tech Savvy Millennials

All is online, including Millennials who navigate the digital environment like pros. Attracting and retaining the tech savvy members of this generation presents organizations with new challenges.

• Seven Tips To Finding an Extra Hour a Day

Busy executives in management and leadership positions have one common grievance: Not enough time in the day. “Crazy busy” is the common refrain when asked, “How’s it going?” among colleagues. This is even more pronounced for small business owners, minority and women owned businesses, and sole propr...

• Developing the Big Picture through Purpose Driven Leadership

Developing the Big Picture through Purpose Driven LeadershipThe most effective corporate leaders are emotionally intelligent and understand that developing an organizational culture with a clear sense of purpose is critical to long-term success. It begins with inspired managers who believe that work...

• Authentically Including Men as Sponsors and Mentors of Women

It really does not make sense to implement diversity and inclusion initiatives to advance inclusion of women without talking to the people in power who can bring change. Those people are men.

• Preparing for the Future: Developing Gen Y Leaders

Preparing for the Future: Developing Gen Y LeadersBusinesses looking for future leaders need only look as far as the organization’s Gen Y employees. Now is the time to develop the leadership behaviors needed for strong bench strength.

• Leveraging Social Media to Find Customers and Suppliers

Social media is evolving into social business, implying business intelligence. Conducting social business includes deliberately turning social media into an integrated tool for customer and supplier recruitment.

• Building a Truly Inclusive Workplace with an Allyship Strategy

Business leaders have worked for years to build inclusive workplaces, but stopping at inclusion is not getting desired results. There are new elements to consider – belonging and allyship – to create a truly inclusive culture that develops a sense of belonging in diverse employees.

• Building a “Sustainable Brand”

Building a “Sustainable Brand”By Morris BocianA common definition of “sustainability” is, “Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” I would rephrase it to “building our generation - enabling future generations.”

• Job Design to Attract, Retain, and Advance Women

Job Design to Attract, Retain, and Advance WomenThe workplace needs women, but the broken rung at the management first step often stops women from advancing. Even when they get to the first step, they face barriers to advancement. Removing those barriers can begin by re-evaluating both job design an...

• Humanizing Leadership Skills for Workforce Digital Fluency

Humanizing Leadership Skills for Workforce Digital FluencyHumans and digital technology are now partners, with important implications for the style of leadership needed to manage the collaboration. In a reimagined workforce, leaders are skilled in enabling both, so soft skills are elevated as key su...

• 21st Century Leaders: Global, Growing, and Going Fast

21st Century Leaders: Global, Growing, and Going FastIs your company rising to the development challenge?

• Managing Innovation Paradoxes to Accelerate Transformative Innovation

Integrating the perspectives of creative thinkers and executors is key to managing the paradoxes that naturally occur in organizations while generating transformative innovation.

• A Passion for Entrepreneurship Takes Corium Solutions around the World

The entrepreneurial effort can head down many different paths. For Corium Solutions that path went global but only after grasping a series of events as opportunities.

• CT Lottery and WSP Collaborate to Create an Industry Leader

CT Lottery decided to become an industry and state leader in supplier diversity. Collaborating with Winston Strategic Partners was the winning strategy for accelerating the process. - By Andrew Hale

• Awareness Plus Action Best Approach for Mitigating Bias

There is no magic solution to minimizing workplace bias. It takes a combination of employee awareness and organizational structures that reduce the opportunities to demonstrate bias.

• Business Golf vs. Recreational Golf: An Important Difference

Business Golf vs. Recreational Golf: An Important DifferenceThere are two types of golf games. One is client focused and one is friendship focused. Both are competitive games, but the desired end result drives the difference.

• Belonging in the Workplace is not the Same as ‘Fitting in’

There is a clear, proven business case for diversity and inclusion. But inclusion often drives "fitting in," meaning people mix with others in the workplace but strive to hide their unique ideas and experiences. The next step after inclusion is belonging in which people are valued for their unique t...

• Leaders Fearing Employee Truths Stifle Problem Solving

Employees often fear raising negative issues in the workplace with management, fearing retribution. Employee fears are a symptom of managers who are just as fearful of harm to the organization and their positions should they recognize the issues exist.

• Building Leadership Bench Strength for a Global Business Environment

Building Leadership Bench Strength for a Global Business EnvironmentNow, not later, is the time to prepare for leadership succession. Developing a plan for continuously strong bench strength is a plan for long-term success.

• Standing With Women and People of Color to Overcome Imposter Syndrome

Funny, you don’t look like a…Too often this phrase has been used to marginalize women and people of color in a variety of professions, leading to widespread Imposter Syndrome. How can organizations support diverse leaders to overcome these feelings?

• Next Generation Leaders Must Be Citizens of the World

Globalization is having an enormous impact on businesses as interactions are culturally diverse and cross borders and organizational boundaries. Only leaders who develop a global mindset will thrive. - By Dave Desouza

• On a Learning Journey to Build Leadership Bench Strength

Creating a learning journey requires developing a process of formal and experiential learning, and networking. Effective leader development is a continuous process. - By Dave Desouza

• Glimpsing the Future of Television: You-Tube Content Channels

YouTube TV was recently introduced to the market, marking the next step in the journey towards internet TV. Once a random collection of video content, it is now gelling into a major source of content channels. Experts wonder: What is the future of cable and satellite television?

• Identifying Great Leaders Why Some Small Businesses Thrive and Others Don’t

Identifying Great Leaders Why Some Small Businesses Thrive and Others Don’t- By Morris BocianWikipedia defines Leadership as the process of social influence in which one person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task…..

• Rhythm and Balance on the Golf Course Translate to Consistency and Balance in Business

Rhythm and Balance on the Golf Course Translate to Consistency and Balance in BusinessBefore swinging away at a new business deal, make sure the fundamentals are mastered. Consistent results depend on developing the right rhythm and always maintaining balance.

• Strengthening Inclusion and Diversity by Fostering a Culture of Empathy

North American businesses spend billions of dollars every year on D&I initiatives, yet many fail to move the needle. Something is missing, and it could be a lack of empathy. - By Daniel Perez

• Keeping Employees Engaged and Energized Through Good Times and Bad

Developing an engaged workforce can make the difference between competitive success and failure. The key is maintaining employee commitment through all business conditions.

• Adding Mindfulness to Improve Leadership Development

Adding Mindfulness to Improve Leadership Development Mindfulness has become a mainstream business strategy for developing leaders able to successfully manage continual change. Research and real-world applications are proving it is a valuable productive tool.

• Breaking the Mold Letting Women Bring Authenticity into the Workplace

Women are told how they must think, act and dress in order to be noticed for leadership positions. They are molded to fit the perspective of men on gender roles, and there is not room for authenticity. It is time to break the mold!