• In a Digital World: Incorporating Social Media with Business Development

Social media has moved beyond being a friendly means of communication to becoming a bi-directional business model. Businesses can tap into the marketplace for marketing, product development, and talent management purposes. - By Joshua FerdinandBefore the advent of social media, the internet provided...

• Successfully Integrating Corporate Philanthropy with Profit Making

Successfully Integrating Corporate Philanthropy with Profit MakingMetrics can prove that giving and profit making can work harmoniously together.

• Taking the Giant Leap into the Future of Communication in the Virtual World

Taking the Giant Leap into the Future of Communication in the Virtual WorldThe virtual world already exists, but so much more is coming. It is already changing how people communicate, and just around the corner is communication already being humanized in amazing ways. It is a clarion call to diverse...

• Women-Owned Businesses Increasingly Turn to Social Media for Success

Women-Owned Businesses Increasingly Turn to Social Media for Success Women make-up one of the fastest growing segments of small business. Certainly, factors like increased access to capital has had a major influence, but probably not as much influence over the last few years as social media. Growing...

• Managing at the Speed of Technology as Millennials Change Workplace Dynamics

Managing at the Speed of Technology as Millennials Change Workplace DynamicsCloud computing, social media, mobile and now Millennials have become forces for business disruption. The leadership challenge is learning how to manage in the here and now to harness the new dynamics.

• Applying Positive Psychology to Business Coaching in a World of Change

High stress economic conditions are putting increasing pressures on businesses and their employees. The positive psychology coaching strategy lifts spirits and helps people think in terms of their full potential, rather than dwelling on the negatives. Business talk today concerns the multi-facete...

• Data Centers...New Opportunities in the Technology Industry

Data Centers...New Opportunities in the Technology IndustryData centers began when very large companies realized they needed to manage scattered informational technology (IT) locations better to achieve more efficient data processing and improve data security. Centralizing the processing equipment i...

• Fully Leveraging Networks Through Connectional Intelligence

Connectional Intelligence is the ability to effectively use networks and relationships to drive innovation. Organizations are learning to embrace outside insights for internal success. - By Gerald Donald

• 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...

• Optimizing Cross-Cultural Talent in the Workforce

Developing a Human Resources culture that is anchored in HR data and analytics is a process. It is a journey over time that moves HR from reporting to analytics.By Belinda Jones

• Workplace Culture_Fixing The Fruit Diagnosing And Improving Toxic Workplace Cultures

Canada’s offices are like the proverbial orchard, where their cultures are known by their visible harvests. Here, learn how to identify and repair office cultures that have gone rotten.

• Organizational Coaching Helps People Rise to Their Level of Leadership

Organizational Coaching Helps People Rise to Their Level of LeadershipCoaching develops in-house leaders for succession. What many do not realize is that a quality program also improves individual position performances specific to the organization, enhancing business results long before succession ...

• Challenging Times Call For New Leadership Coaching Strategies

In an ever-changing business environment, leadership must be adaptable and able to make value-driven, collaborative decisions. That means coaching strategies must adapt as well.- By Ingrid Johnson

• The Double Edge of Social Media: Employee and Customer Engagement

The Double Edge of Social Media: Employee and Customer EngagementSocial media is a tool for deepening relationships between the business and customers and employees when it is embedded in the organization’s processes.

• The HR Operating Model for an Agile, Adaptive Business

The HR Operating Model for an Agile, Adaptive BusinessThere is growing realization that HR must be a full participant in creating value through talent. To achieve this goal, HR professionals must work closely with organizational leaders to create an operating model and culture that enables maximizin...

• Execution Getting it Done!

Execution Getting it Done!Thomas Friedman, a Pulitzer Prize winning author wrote:“Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up.It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.Every morning a Lion wakes up.It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death.It...

• Enhance Efficiency Through Systems and Process Management Choices

Enhance Efficiency Through Systems and Process Management Choices An efficient production of products and services is smart integration of people, supply chain, material, funds and activities. Well knit integration of factors such as production flow and output delivery enables companies to gain or ...

• Calculating a Return on Investment when using a Focused Executive Coaching Approach

Calculating a Return on Investment when using a Focused Executive Coaching ApproachBy Morris BocianAccording to a recent survey conducted by an international human resource firm 25% to 40% of Fortune 500 firms use executive coaches. Why should Fortune 500 firms spend billions of dollars a year on t...

• Coaching a Distributed Workforce: New Tech, New Tools, and a New Path Forward

Coaching a Distributed Workforce: New Tech, New Tools, and a New Path ForwardAs work life shifts away from colocation and core schedules, coaches need to adapt to the new distributed work model. Here are how new technologies and new approaches are helping coaches maintain high performance across fr...

• Getting Ahead of the Social Media Risks in the Workplace

Getting Ahead of the Social Media Risks in the WorkplaceMost employers today leverage social media to improve communications internally and externally. With the advantages come many risks which need to be anticipated and managed to minimize the potential for business disruption or reputation damage.

• How AI Is Redefining The Corporate World

AI is a broad field with both theoretical and practical applications for corporations. Thanks to COVID-19, new implementations of AI in the workplace are being explored.

• Unleashing Your Inner Genius: Leveraging the Expertise of Executive Coaching

Unleashing Your Inner Genius: Leveraging the Expertise of Executive CoachingOf the small businesses that fail, some eighty-five percent fall short in their first five years. Flawed business models, a weak product or inadequate marketing top the list of common reasons for these collapses. Increasi...

• Getting Ahead of the Social Media Risks in the Workplace

Getting Ahead of the Social Media Risks in the WorkplaceMost employers today leverage social media to improve communications internally and externally. With the advantages come many risks which need to be anticipated and managed to minimize the potential for business disruption or reputation damage.

• The Business Case for Outsourcing making the Business Case in Light of Economic Uncertainties

The Business Case for Outsourcing making the Business Case in Light of Economic UncertaintiesBy Anaga DalalOn the surface, the business case for outsourcing is a no-brainer: pay less for the same services. In reality, the complications of outsourcing —particularly offshore — present myriad obstacles...

• Working at the Intersection of Human Resources, Ethics and Compliance

Working at the Intersection of Human Resources, Ethics and ComplianceHuman resources and ethics departments of global organizations are engaging in ongoing collaboration to make their companies’ corporate culture and risk management processes have an increased focus on ethics, according to a report ...

• 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

• 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.

• Expanding Your Digital Footprint: Using Social Media to Build Your Business

Expanding Your Digital Footprint: Using Social Media to Build Your Business- By Anaga DalalTwitter, Facebook, Flikr, YouTube and LinkedIn are just a few of the now abundant forms of social media that are rapidly changing people’s daily interactions as well as the everyday business landscape. Taken t...

• Protecting Your Network from a Targeted Hacker Attack

Unplug your router when you are done with work, or turn off non-essential network areas at night. - by Karen White

• No Silos Allowed: Continuous Employee Learning Through Social Networking

No Silos Allowed: Continuous Employee Learning Through Social NetworkingSocial networking has flattened a spectrum of corporate silos. One of those silos is the process of knowledge transfer, and the result is continuous employee learning.

• Managing Change for Organizational and Human Effectiveness

In difficult business environments change doesn’t always have positive connotations. It implies tight resources, downsizing and increased workloads. Yet organizational change should be an ongoing process that is designed to ensure that highly capable people are working within processes that benefit ...

• Gaining a Voice Collaborative Planning through Impact Benefit Agreements

Gaining a Voice: Collaborative Planning through Impact Benefit Agreements.Over the past 25 years, exploration of mineral and petroleum resources grew steadily and primarily on Aboriginal lands. The impact of the mining on treasured lands, cultural traditions, and communities became a serious concern...

• Conquer the RFP Process By Differentiating Your Business

It is standard practice for large corporations to use the Request for Proposal (RFP) process to solicit proposals for goods and services or project work. Companies easily able to become Tier 1 suppliers have a large pool of resources in terms of assets and human capacity, making it easier to meet RF...

• Cyber Attacks More Serious and More Sophisticated Each Year

Cyber Attacks More Serious and More Sophisticated Each YearCyberattacks can do more than steal data or money. They can drive a business out of business, due to loss of assets or loss of customer trust. SMEs are particularly at risk, meaning every business needs a cybersecurity strategy.

• A $13 Trillion Market Opportunity Waits For Firms Who Embrace Accessible Design

One in four adults in the United States is living with some form of disability, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As these adults encounter marketing content online, it’s essential that business campaigns include accessible design in order to reach this segment of the p...

• Linking Human Capital Governance and Performance to Financial Performance

Linking Human Capital Governance and Performance to Financial PerformanceThe SEC has created a new 10-K disclosure requirement concerning human capital. The requirement was purposefully devoid of specifics, to allow companies the freedom to assess how their human capital impacts financial performanc...

• 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.

• Finding New Routes for Managing Workplace Conflicts

There are a number of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) options for businesses interested in avoiding formal arbitration and litigation. An Integrated Conflict Management system is the approach that creates a culture of resolution.

• The Rubber Meets the Road: Demonstrating Executive Coaching Results

The Rubber Meets the Road: Demonstrating Executive Coaching ResultsExecutive coaching is one of the most sought after development opportunities in the corporate world. Increased requests are driving the need for more solid approaches and measures of success.

• Human Capital Providing a Springboard for Global Inclusiveness

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. - By Joseph Warren

• Developing Cross-Cultural Competency in the Workforce

Developing a Human Resources culture that is anchored in HR data and analytics is a process. It is a journey over time that moves HR from reporting to analytics.