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Keep Your people by aligning your Strategy

Where People and Strategy meet

STRATEGY + COMPETENCY + DEVELOPMENT

When you have the right fit between your strategy and your people, your story is compelling to your customer and energizes your team and amplifies your growth.

Development

How do you keep your employees growing? How does that drive your objectives?

Does everyone in your organization know why they are there? How their work contributes?

How might you create career pathways for your employees to keep them productive and engaged?

AI Enablement

Do your employees know how to make the most of emerging tools like AI? Are they confident using these tools? Are you?

Are you concerned that you might be missing opportunities by not using AI in your business?

How might you boost productivity by introducing AI into your business and empowering your employees?

Storytelling

What story are you telling about the work you do? Are you engaging clients and customers or boring them?

What do you current employees think of the story you tell? What about future employees?

How might you better tell the story of the amazing work you do?

  • Motivating Without a Paycheck

    Motivating Without a Paycheck

    Intrinsic Employee Engagement Factors – Which Lever Will You Pull?  My career began as a volunteer manager in the non-profit sector and then moved into human resources. In some of my first roles, I managed volunteers in health care, human services, the arts, and my local community group.  One of the most valuable lessons I… Read more

  • Scouts for Adults

    Scouts for Adults

    Badges are back but it’s no longer just for participation.  (Anyone remember those Participaction badges?!) Today, both learners and employers are including badges into their search for jobs or for employees.  Badges are changing the education and skill game.  The parchment that you earn with a degree means you have learned a subject widely and… Read more

  • What Types of Errors Cost the Most?

    What Types of Errors Cost the Most?

    What happens when you only have part of the information? What decisions do you tend to make? I was challenged on this recently when someone explained to me the two types of errors we can make. They used the analogy that the weather forecast calls for 50% chance of rain. In this instance you have… Read more

  • 10,000 Hours or 10 Milliseconds?

    10,000 Hours or 10 Milliseconds?

    a.k.a. To AI or not to AI With Chat GPT and other AI at our fingertips, why would we spend time ourselves to master a skill or complete a task? Why spend 10,000 hours becoming an expert when we can spend 10 milliseconds waiting for the AI to give us the answer? Malcolm Gladwell’s argument… Read more

  • Inhuman Human Resources

    Inhuman Human Resources

    In season 3 of Westworld (yes, I know no one watches it anymore), there is a powerful AI called Rehoboam.* This AI can predict world events and manipulate the lives of individuals to create peace and harmony in society.  Rehoboam not only predicts the events of people’s lives, but it makes assessments of their value… Read more

  • What Do You Really Know About Your Employees? 

    What Do You Really Know About Your Employees? 

    In HR, we have an idea we call “latent” skills or competencies. Latent, of course refers to something that has potential, that is subconscious, or perhaps we can better say, unconscious. And that’s where latent skills come into HR.  Ask yourself: how much do you know about your employees’ experiences before they joined your team?… Read more

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