• Reaching Employees with Mobile Technology…No Matter Their Location

Reaching Employees with Mobile Technology…No Matter Their LocationThanks to mobile technology, employers can deliver training and development on the employee’s terms. It does not end there because mobile increases collaboration at the same time.

• Desire to Belong: The Human Trait of Unconscious Bias

Everyone has unconscious biases, using stereotypes to assess people and guide decision making. A desire to belong can stop people from moving beyond them.

• 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.

• 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

• Few U.S. Companies Are Effectively Dealing with Language Limitations of Foreign Workers

Few U.S. Companies Are Effectively Dealing with Language Limitations of Foreign WorkersAs foreign-born workers make up a larger share of the U.S. workforce, more employers will be dealing with language limitations. But a new survey by The Conference Board finds that a majority of employers are doing...

• 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.

• 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

• A Call of Duty: Using Technology to Retain Veterans in Post-Military Jobs

Employers hire veterans to take advantage of their training and skills. The next challenge is increasing employment retention rates, and technology is helping.

• 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.

• When Talent Can’t Travel, How Can They Grow?

Talent immobility is a rising issue as ongoing lockdowns and travel restrictions disrupt business trips, rotational assignments, and hiring. Here’s a look at how talent development can continue even as talent mobility remains on pause.

• 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

• 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.

• Transforming Social Networks into Employee Collaboration Networks

Transforming Social Networks into Employee Collaboration Networks The real power of social networking is its ability to promote collaboration. The challenge for businesses is making it happen in a way that gets the most results.

• 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...

• 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...

• Turning to People with Disabilities to Reduce Turnover

Turning to People with Disabilities to Reduce Turnover Some positions experience high turnover for one of two reasons: competition makes it difficult to keep highly skilled labor or the job is entry level and employees move on to other positions. One solution is close to home: hire and retain peop...

• Plugging the Social Media Time Drain with Management Best Practices

Plugging the Social Media Time Drain with Management Best Practices

• 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.

• Cost Effective Approaches that Create Business Value

Cost effective approaches to creating business value go beyond traditional resource reductions. They focus instead on ways to empower each of the components in an integrated organization.

• Developing Leaders with Global Agility

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

• Developing Disabled Veteran Inclusive External Marketing and Communications Plans

Inclusiveness of disabled veterans and other people with disabilities is not limited to the workforce. It is also a principle that should permeate marketing and communications plans.

• 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?

• Using Technology to help with Veterans Retention

A Call of Duty: Using Technology to Retain Veterans in Post-Military Jobs Employers hire veterans to take advantage of their training and skills. The next challenge is increasing employment retention rates, and technology is helping.

• 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

• 4 Ways To Use HR To Increase The Success Of Mergers And Acquisitions

The human factor can make or break a deal, especially in today’s hyper competitive talent markets. Here are four ways any company can use HR to enable and enhance deal values and success.Mergers and acquisitions can be some of the most efficient means for firms to grow market share and marketing dom...

• Capitalizing on Opportunities for Veterans as Employees

There is a wealth of talent in the veteran labor market, but extracting the full value depends on the organization’s expertise in attracting, employing and engaging veterans. - By Royston Arch

• 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

• 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...

• Best Practices and Benchmarking for Supplier Diversity

Best Practices and Benchmarking for Supplier Diversity

• 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

• It’s Our Uniqueness That Makes us Stronger

Living as differently abled or with otherness can exacerbate Imposter Syndrome. To build solutions and help everyone establish a sense of belonging, businesses first need to cultivate an understanding of the lived experience of their employees.

• Improving The Post-Pandemic Talent Recruitment Process

Improving The Post-Pandemic Talent Recruitment ProcessFrom a worldwide pandemic to international protests against social injustices, 2020 gave many recruiters a sudden reset. Now that COVID-related hiring freezes are coming to an end, how can recruiters improve the way they fill open positions?

• Building a Brand Around Sustainability Key to Technology Success

Sustainability is quickly becoming a watchword for minority firms looking for contracts in the technology industry. Clients care about the environmental impact all the way down the supply chain, and minority owned businesses that can help provide solutions to sustainability issues are in high deman...

• 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...

• 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

• Turning a Loss at the 72nd Golf Hole into a Business Success

How a golfer responds to losing a golf game can reveal how the person will respond to losses in the business world. A bad outcome can be a major defeat or a temporary setback. - By Vincent Pane

• Placing A Firm Value On Innovation Culture

Placing A Firm Value On Innovation CultureChange is the only constant. In a global economy with rapidly changing circumstances, from trade disputes to pandemics, companies that cannot change will certainly fail. Innovation must be endemic to organizational culture to succeed in the long-term.

• 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...

• Managers Know Intuitively that the ROI on Diversity Recruitment is Good for Business

The new hire must learn the employer’s business methods and job responsibilities, while also adapting to a unique culture.

• Managing the Multigenerational Workforce Through Engagement

Just when it seems as if businesses have coped with everything imaginable, they are experiencing a new challenge: a workforce made of at least four generations.

• 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

• Turning Online Video Content into New Business

YouTube has been the acknowledged innovator and powerhouse in online video. Now an expanding industry, it offers innovative entrepreneurs new business and revenue opportunities. - By Karen White

• Global Companies Need Local Strategies for Entering Emerging Markets

One global investment strategy does not fit all, especially in emerging markets where there is so much uncertainty. A good strategy is going global by going local. - By William Bell

• 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...

• The Real Impact of Dodd-Frank For MWBEs

The Real Impact of Dodd-Frank For MWBEsFor All The Hype And Chatter, What Does Dodd-Frank Really Mean For MWBEs?

• 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...

• Doing Business in Mozambique: Building From the Ground Up

Doing Business in Mozambique: Building From the Ground UpChange and Uncertainty Make Business an Interesting Challenge

• 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.

• 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.

• An Effective Post-Secondary Process Can Engage Top Aboriginal Talent

An Effective Post-Secondary Process Can Engage Top Aboriginal TalentIncreasing Aboriginal participation in post-secondary education can help reduce the labour shortage. It will take a coordinated and culturally sensitive outreach effort.

• 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.

• Creating Sustainable Corporate Startup Incubators: 4 Lessons From Canada’s Federal Programs

The strong emphasis on bringing more incubators and business accelerators to life will only last if Canada’s businesses are willing to learn from experiments in the public federal level.Business accelerators and start up incubators have been a major funding initiative of the Canadian government thro...

• Eyes on Home Integrating Aboriginals into the Canadian Labor Force

Eyes on Home: Integrating Aboriginals into the Canadian Labor ForceOne of the solutions to Canada’s labor shortage is found right at home. Aboriginals are underutilized and employers need talent, so developing a set of strategies for successful market integration is needed.

• 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

• As More Corporations Move To Improve Their Supply Chain, The Challenge Is For Minority Companies To Keep Up With Changes

For most minority- and women-owned businesses, being a supplier for a large corporation presents a conundrum of sorts-maintaining their identity as a relatively small, diverse organization, while functioning at the speed and efficiency required by their customers. This is especially true today, as t...

• Supplier Diversity: Retail Offers Contract Variety and Extensive Opportunities for Minority Firms

Supplier Diversity: Retail Offers Contract Variety and Extensive Opportunities for Minority Firms The retail industry has been facing some tough quarters as a result of the recent recessionary period, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t still opportunity for minority firms. The most recent data (2009...

• 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...

• Using Technology for Smart Sourcing to Make Smart Decisions

Using Technology for Smart Sourcing to Make Smart DecisionsTraditional procurement functions have measured success in terms of savings and timely materials or product deliveries. Smart sourcing can turn procurement into a strategic organizational partner through tech-based measurement of ROI and th...

• 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.

• Getting the Greatest Value from Global Business Services

Getting the Greatest Value from Global Business ServicesThe Global Business Services model offers significant cost savings, process efficiencies, and adaptability to continuous change. Accruing these benefits depends on getting and keeping the right governance in place.

• 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.

• Managing the Multigenerational Workforce Through Engagement

Just when it seems as if businesses have coped with everything imaginable, they are experiencing a new challenge: a workforce made of at least four generations.

• 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.

• 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?

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Grow Aboriginal Talent Pools Using Proven-to-Work Programs

Grow Aboriginal Talent Pools Using Proven-to-Work ProgramsIn the nationwide race to develop a deeper pipeline of Aboriginal talent, companies make faster strides forward using proven programming.

• 3 Ways Data Helps Make Diverse Hiring Easier In 2021

3 Ways Data Helps Make Diverse Hiring Easier In 2021The national dialog around recruitment, hiring, and employment in 2021 has become noisy and politicized. Here are three ways data can help firms cut through the chatter and meet key hiring goals.

• 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?

• Social Media: The Path to Finding and Keeping the Right Talent

Social media is transforming the job-seeking process. That means organizations must transform their talent acquisition strategy to successfully compete for talent. - By Joshua Ferdinand

• 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

• South Coast Paper Thrives Through Capital Shortage, Hurricanes and Recessions

South Coast Paper’s growth was earned through efforts focusing on viability in manufacturing plants, and through effective sales and marketing. But real success was achieved through innovative sustainability efforts revolving around meeting customer needs. - By Sharon Rossm

• 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.

• 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.

• 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!