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Finance Leadership: The Wind in Your Sails During Uncertainty

Finance Leadership: The Wind in Your Sails Durin…

When the economic weather forecast is stormy with a side of WTAF, companies need a firm hand at the financial helm. Whether your company pha…

Does Power Deserve a Second Look?

Does Power Deserve a Second Look?…

Today’s polarizing headlines agree on one point: Power is inescapable. If we aren’t mastering it effectively, it’s likely that someone…

Communicating Trust to Employees: Building Ambassadors, Not Activists

Communicating Trust to Employees: Building Ambas…

In late January, Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, sent a memo complaining that his communications in meetings were constantly being leaked.…

Hiring Mistakes Suck. Here’s What to Do Next.

Hiring Mistakes Suck. Here’s What to Do Next.…

Sonos, a leader in premium audio products, launched a much-anticipated app update in May of last year. The result? Chaos. User outrage, devi…

Employee Experience in 2025—A Competitive Advantage, Not a Cost

Employee Experience in 2025—A Competitive Adva…

Imagine beginning your January executive team meeting with a question from your colleagues to justify an investment in the company’s emplo…

If Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast, Does Your P&L Reflect The Opposite?

If Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast, Does You…

Every joyride has its naysayers. In the last 20 years, tech giants like Amazon and UBER have raked in billions on the backs of tech-fueled i…

Leadership blind spot: Who’s getting side-eyed?

Leadership blind spot: Who’s getting side-eyed…

Have you met Chad? Popularized on TikTok and other social platforms, creators refer to Chad as a brash, overly self-confident caricature who…

Growing in Spite of Layoffs And Hiring Freezes

Growing in Spite of Layoffs And Hiring Freezes…

Layoffs are meant to strengthen the bottom line. And they do, numbers-wise, just in time for upcoming quarterly reports. Yet cutting costs i…

Truth Telling – Pruning Teams is Messy

Truth Telling – Pruning Teams is Messy…

Do you like to garden, or do you like when someone else helps you with your garden? Or… do you like to smell the flowers and call *that* g…

Community vs Culture<br />(a subpart of Compensation)

Community vs Culture
(a subpart of Compensa…

Last month we took a tour of some nuanced strategies to optimize employees’ total reward package. This month we’re addressing what might…

What Deserves Your Attention in Compensation? Compensation Trends for July 2024

What Deserves Your Attention in Compensation? Co…

While RIFs are a CFO’s best friend (bell curve – we know some outliers), layoffs have other costs…how do we motivate the remaining emp…

How Can GenAI Facilitate Team Collaboration?

How Can GenAI Facilitate Team Collaboration?…

Promises, promises. Are all the emails and headlines about new AI tools giving your inbox odd vibes where you want to swipe left? Yes, AI pr…

Grow In Ways You Can Control: Reskilling in a Tech Downturn

Grow In Ways You Can Control: Reskilling in a Te…

We’re either growing or declining. We can tell you which one we prefer 🙂 The winds of economic change are shifty. Shifting too, but als…

Adapting is Basic. Try This Instead.

Adapting is Basic. Try This Instead.…

Adapting is Basic. Try This Instead. If there were an over-used word in the teamwork/HR landscape in the last couple of years, it would prob…

The Future of HR/People Ops is more than human.

The Future of HR/People Ops is more than human.…

The level of complexity (and, dare we say it…’strategic’ issues) in the lap of the Chief People Officer is real. And while GenAI will …

Return to Office Power Struggles- What’s Below the Surface

Return to Office Power Struggles- What’s Below…

RTO is surfacing old and new power struggles between employers and employees. And the power base continues to shift. Employers who champion …

PeopleOps Strategies for Iconic Companies

PeopleOps Strategies for Iconic Companies…

There is no safe harbor. A common assumption is that big companies can plow through rough seas more easily than smaller boats. In our experi…

People Ops Throughline for Startups

People Ops Throughline for Startups…

Over the last couple of months, we’ve been talking about your throughline, the energetic connective tissue that anchors your actions (…

Your Energetic Throughline

Your Energetic Throughline…

Where are you going while doing all the things? If remote work is the post-pandemic holy grail, why are people still so tired? We saw one …

The Company You Keep – Energizing or Exhausting?

The Company You Keep – Energizing or Exhau…

The answer matters. A lot. Here’s why, plus some helpful tips. Have you reflected recently on which communities really charge you up? We�…

PeopleOps / HR – From Early Stage, to Growth, to Iconic Company… What is needed?

PeopleOps / HR – From Early Stage, to Gro…

No matter what size company you’re in right now, these challenging economic conditions can feel like “uncertain waters.” Startups can …

After Layoffs: What to Do When the Smoke Clears

After Layoffs: What to Do When the Smoke Clears…

How to increase flow and reduce friction for remaining teams. While layoffs may achieve some short-term corporate objectives, they can wre…

Recession or not? It’s getting hot out there.

Recession or not? It’s getting hot out there.…

Time to call in the smokejumpers. Throughout 2022, the financial press kept us on the edge of our seats, predicting a recession that has y…

How Learning Saves You Time

How Learning Saves You Time…

Are you a learning machine? And how do you view learning – as a separate act, integrated into your job, or both? For many leaders, learn…

What’s Essential For High Team Performance?

What’s Essential For High Team Performance?…

A couple of years ago the term “special snowflake” was making the rounds on the interwebs as a bit of a swipe at the millennial workforc…

Successful Teams – Clarity Provided by Oracles from Omaha, Harvard, and Tibet

Successful Teams – Clarity Provided by Ora…

Teams (well, good teams) are the key to worker wellness and retention When you add quiet quitting to the Great Resignation, employees are cl…

Rough Seas Ahead

Rough Seas Ahead…

Do you need an HR or Marketing Octopus or Shark for Year End? Fewer resources. Less stress. Those two variables don’t usually go togethe…

Hybrid + Economic Uncertainty is Hard. Recent Science Has Some Answers…

Hybrid + Economic Uncertainty is Hard. Recent Sc…

Even though remote and hybrid work may feel like a frustrating puzzle that keeps changing, the truth is knowledge workers have been edging c…

How Growth-Focused Companies Keep Strong Talent from Jumping Ship

How Growth-Focused Companies Keep Strong Talent …

Isn’t it interesting how facts and beliefs can be misaligned? Despite low unemployment of 3.5%, we’re noticing how leaders believe that …

The Cure for Quiet Quitting

The Cure for Quiet Quitting…

First, there was the Great Resignation. Which led to the difficult job market. And now there’s something new (because of course). It’s c…

Everyone’s Creative. CEOs to CPAs. Unlock Your Innovative Spirit (AND Your Team’s)

Everyone’s Creative. CEOs to CPAs. Unlock Your…

Ideas can come from anyone. Case in point: White Out was invented by a typist. It’s not limited to design or artistic roles. Your creative…

Make Your Team Magical: How-to Leverage An Intergenerational Workforce

Make Your Team Magical: How-to Leverage An Inter…

Real quick. It’s hard for companies (especially with this whole remote vs. hybrid vs. onsite cyclone storm still spinning) to retain “up…

4 Essentials in The Future of Teams

4 Essentials in The Future of Teams…

Here’s what we’re seeing across our clients. A colossal level of exhaustion. A tight labor market. Nervousness about returning “just t…

The Future of Skills: What is Your Skills Journey to 2025?

The Future of Skills: What is Your Skills Journe…

Half of us (just not you or me, right?) will need to reskill or upskill in the next five years, according to this article in the World Econo…

The Future of Teamwork: Hybrid & Evolving

The Future of Teamwork: Hybrid & Evolving…

The future of teamwork for organizations is: kind of messy. It’s more complicated than where we work…it’s about how we tea…

Avoiding How Bonus Season Can Also Be Exit Interview Season

Avoiding How Bonus Season Can Also Be Exit Inter…

We typically see a lot of movement into and out of companies this time of year, and it’s no coincidence that as bonuses come out, more peo…

What to Bring into 2022

What to Bring into 2022…

Big breaths… at the start of 2020, we were filled with optimism for a new world. We had a vaccine and hope that some things (not all t…

Sourcing alone does not equal success

Sourcing alone does not equal success…

Sourcing is important. So is sourcing “through the yes.” How do you build long-term relationships to ensure that both the company and th…

The Antidote To The Great Resignation

The Antidote To The Great Resignation…

It’s not easy, and also, it’s not that hard. What it is: putting someone (or a small team depending on your company size) focused on add…

How to change the odds in recruiting well with executive search

How to change the odds in recruiting well with e…

We’re all susceptible to outdated beliefs. Like how being famous, rich and powerful must also mean you’re exhausted, have no time for yo…

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