How Larissa Cerqueira keeps Fluence competitive

Development, Leadership development, Uncategorized

We’re amazed and inspired. Larissa Cerqueira is CHRO at Fluence, a leader in renewable energy with a significant focus on electric vehicle power storage. Larissa is constantly recruiting, selecting, and onboarding new talent around the world. This is in a...

A blend of best practices and women-focused initiatives can improve equity in the workplace

Diversity, Uncategorized

Women are still left behind when it comes to advancement in Donna Warrick’s Viewpoint column in The Business Journal: “From glass ceiling to glass cliff, leadership succession for women is too often a mirage.” Half of Donna’s solution is best practices –...

Before you hire, benchmark the job to find the best matched talent

Talent selection, Uncategorized

When small businesses staff up, they don’t always know what or who they’re looking for. They may have titles in mind, but not clear agreement on the traits and motivation that are needed to do the job. This is not being slack. It’s the norm. Written job descriptions...

Are we seeing the most agile generation enter the workplace?

Talent selection, Uncategorized

Agile intern, Susan Miller is a student at University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. When a student can visualize and pitch their own internship, we like to hear about it. After all, we’re in the business of helping companies select the best matched talent based on...

Match extroverts to the right positions to ensure a better long-term hire

Talent selection, Uncategorized

Let’s look at extroverts. There’s a lot more to personality profiles than whether someone is an “I” or an “E,” as Myers-Briggs might suggest to the casual user. Talent professionals get this and know it’s vital to drill down with MBTI and other assessments....

How leaders can achieve a positive workplace culture

Development, Leadership development

Recently, we were asked how companies measure if their workplace cultures are successful? Good question. We’re so often asked about how to find the problems! Point number one: start by looking for transparency, openness and honesty. Let’s clarify....

Last time we talked about unconscious bias, they threw paper wads at us

Uncategorized

We asked for it. This was the closing exercise in our new Unconscious Bias workshop that serves as feedback about what was learned. Most recently we did this for an automotive supplier in a group of hourly and salaried employees. We wanted to know how well we as...

Why don’t women speak up? Psychological safety.

Diversity, Uncategorized

Psychological safety is necessary for any organization. It helps facilitate open communications, improves individual performance and assures you get the best collaborative ideas. Too often, though, it’s lacking and usually this affects women and women of color...

Heading off immature leadership with assessments and development

Development, Uncategorized

Photo: Adobe Stock Immature leadership? No wonder we have so many people leading who simply aren’t prepared. In the past there were many more layers of management. Those days are long gone. As organizations flattened for efficiency, they lost critical training grounds...

Measure training and development ROI one person at a time

Development, News, Training and Development ROI

What’s your ROI on learning initiatives and your overall training and development budget? Don’t feel bad if you don’t have that figure handy. It’s been a topic of debate for decades. Maybe it’s similar to advertising… “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted;...