HR Directors: Why Your L&D Program Is Falling Short
Most companies understand the importance of developing their people, and they’re willing to make major investments in training. Organizations in the U.S. spend more than $150 billion every year on learning and development—unfortunately, these dollars are often wasted on ineffective and incomplete programs. So why are learning and development programs failing? Good intentions; poor execution Organizations have good intentions and want to see their people succeed. People managers care […]
HR Directors: Are You Encouraging Your Frontline Leaders to Quit?
Frontline leaders support your workforce; are you supporting them? In a typical business, frontline managers make up 50-60% of the management team, and supervise 80% of the organization’s employees. Despite the prevalence of these leaders, many of them (especially first-time leaders) may not be receiving the support they need to stay in their jobs. Download […]
Get employees on board with your 2021 strategic plan
The year 2020 will never be forgotten. Nearly every company in every industry was thrown into turmoil. Those same companies now are looking ahead, setting goals and formulating plans for success. The first few months of a new year brings new planning sessions for leadership, and new opportunities to change things that aren’t working. It’s […]
15 Questions to Ask Remote Employees
Business leaders are struggling to understand from a distance whether their workforce is highly engaged. In 2020, many companies moved to a remote work environment for the first time, which brought new roadblocks to staying connected and keeping managers in the loop on their employees’ state of mind. How are your remote team members holding […]
Why you need to modernize your remote workforce
With 2020 behind us, the new year is the perfect time to reevaluate technology infrastructure and optimize remote work capabilities. With technology evolving at a rapid pace, optimization must be an ongoing process – and making sure remote workers are optimized is a priority that your business cannot afford to ignore. By modernizing your systems, […]
Top 6 Employee Engagement Survey Mistakes
This was one of our most popular articles in 2018. Given our current circumstances and the worldwide shift to remote work caused by the pandemic, I thought it was time to revitalize this Top 5 list and add one more critical employee engagement survey mistake I missed back in 2018. Employee engagement is a hot […]
Manufacturing is merging with new technologies
Workforce Disruptions and Industry 4.0 Many academic and industry leaders believe society has entered the beginning stages of a fourth industrial revolution – Industry 4.0. While there is some debate as to whether Industry 4.0 is in fact a new era or just marketing jargon that represents the evolution of the current third industrial revolution, […]
Case Study: Ripple Junction Sees Success
Ripple Junction, a leading designer and developer of pop-culture licensed merchandise, started to experience severe growing pains in 2016. Before so-called pop-up stores were popular, Ripple Junction began selling T-shirts out of a van at a Grateful Dead concert in 1992. Almost three decades later, Ripple was experiencing exponential growth conducting business out of a […]
Workplace Culture in “the New Normal”
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced most of us into isolation and redefined “normal conditions” in both our personal and work lives. Most of us are not working from the office right now, which brings new challenges in keeping our work lives distinct from our personal lives. There is, of course, a natural overlap between work […]
5 Minutes to Growth Podcast: Shared Talent Model
In this episode, we’ll explore the concept of Shared Talent and how companies can leverage niche expertise to enhance their teams, create efficiencies and save money in your Accounting, Internal Audit, or IT Department. Our guest is Carly Devlin, Managing Director at Clark Schaefer Consulting. Carly leads the Shared Talent area for the firm. Clark […]