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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?

  • 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

  • What Happens When all the Managers Go Away?

    What Happens When all the Managers Go Away?

    What would our organizations look like without middle managers?  We may find out sooner rather than later what that looks like.  There’s a workplace trend called conscious unbossing, with over half of Gen Z workers have no interest in middle management roles, perceiving them (rightly so, IMHO) to be too high stressed with low reward… Read more

  • Redeploying Employees to Drive Engagement

    Redeploying Employees to Drive Engagement

    We ignore the full human in the employee at our own cost.  Storytime  Once upon a time, I worked for a company overseeing their corporate services like IT, HR, Procurement etc. As part of that, I supported the HR manager and hiring managers in recruitment, and we were having some difficulty filling a position in… Read more

  • How to Create a Learning Organization

    How to Create a Learning Organization

    We’ve all heard about how data and information is critical to address customer preferences shifting, our technology changing, and the marketplace becomes more and more competitive. One way to do so is by creating a Learning Organization. There are three “building blocks” to a learning organization that leverages information to create competitive advantage: The key element… Read more

  • What Does It Really Cost to NOT Develop Employees?

    What Does It Really Cost to NOT Develop Employees?

    Developing your employees is good business, but sometimes when things get tight, it can feel like a nice to have rather than a need. Employee development is an investment that pays a healthy ROI though.  Let’s consider a case.  You have a small company of 100 employees. Say 12 of those employees left last year… Read more

  • Why Do We Lose Employees?

    Why Do We Lose Employees?

    41% That’s the % of employees who left a job because they saw no opportunity for career advancement in 2022 according to McKinsey. It beats out the number who left because of inadequate compensation (36%) and bad bosses (34%). This resonates because I know I’ve left positions because I saw no opportunity for career advancement.… Read more

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