Strategic Conversations: How to Lead, Influence, and Negotiate
This hour-long interactive workshop is designed to help HR professionals become better negotiators, influencers, and leaders who create value for themselves and their companies.
Attendees will:
Gain confidence and skill in leading ...
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How to Design Better Organizations: New Tools and Mindset for Strategy and Innovation
HR leaders must find new ways of responding to adaptive challenges in today’s world of increasing volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. They need to get comfortable with ambiguity and seek insight from a broader range of ...
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The Ugly Advantage: The Real Story about Influencing and Moving an Organization
The Ugly Advantage is about the rise of authenticity as a currency for attention.
It is about the need for HR to stand out in a noisy world. It is a real, raw conversation about the next level advantages you can implement through your HR life ...
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Persuasive Storytelling with Data
It was Mark Twain who popularized the quote, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.” It has also been said that, “data doesn’t lie; people do.” Data, when manipulated to bolster a weak ... Read more
From Candidate to Employee: Building Employee Experiences that Align with your Culture
A new approach to leading HR — by thinking about traditional programs and services as products within an employee experience portfolio — enabled a business marketing company’s transformation.
Vistaprint began its remarkable ...
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Courageous HR Leadership: Necessary, Scary, Difficult and Due
BP, Equifax, Theranos, Uber, United Airlines, Wells Fargo … Except perhaps for their competitors, likely no one finds joy or entertainment in the scandals and preventable disasters that have befallen these organizations. Yet, if ...
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Emotional Agility and Mental Resiliency for Personal, Professional Success
If you want to perform at your peak, it all starts with developing a dominant “inner” game and forming the right habits to drive massive results!
As leaders, we want to get to the next level, which means going all in for every area ...
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Engage for Change: Bolster Your Influence to Build Relationships, Get Results
Overcoming resistance to change has become the holy grail of change management for the HR leader. Leaders so often start with the best intentions to steer people toward bright horizons, and then run into a wall of resistance. We can ...
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Future of HR Transformation: Solving More of the Business Problems
HR professionals have spent decades trying to get a seat at the CEO’s “table” – where leadership is shapes the direction of the organization.
Now that HR has finally earned its seat, it is time to shift our mindset and ...
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Elvis Has Left the Building (and He Took Old School HR with Him)
To quote the King … your organization is likely looking for “a little less conversation, a little more action” from HR. In this interactive and lively session, attendees will engage in some truth talk about their current HR ...
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Be the Change You Seek
From Atlassian’s founding 16 years ago, its executives and employees have lived by values that include encouraging everyone to “be the change they seek.” Beyond simply identifying problems for someone else to solve or ...
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Reimagining HR In A Bot Economy
Organizations are going through digital transformations that have profound effects on HR leaders and their people. At the same time, cultural shifts are taking place that alter how humans behave in the workplace and the roles they play. Did you ...
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A Guide to the Operational and Strategic Challenges of Becoming Agile
The watchwords of our times are complexity and agility, but our people really want simplicity.
Today’s leaders and HR Professionals are living in the world of “opposite land” where they must balance a series of tensions to ...
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Developing a Coaching Culture for Higher Performance
Today's managers say they give employees regular coaching, feedback, and accountability to reach new levels of performance, instead of managing performance by solely by conducting an annual or quarterly review. Employees seek authentic ... Read more
The Science of Talent
In many organizations, process is based on tradition, or so-called management wisdom, with little regard for the employee experience. In a 10-year career, an employee is bound to hear some 40 different ideas from HR and leadership about what ... Read more
Leadership in the VUCA Era: How to Harness VUCA to Produce Radical Innovation
In the era of VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity), decision making is very challenging for leaders because one can rarely foresee the consequences of business decisions. Traditional leadership (command and control) ... Read more
Curiosity killed … the Mindless Meeting? The Neuroscience of Response to Challenge and Upgrading Potential
Do you ever feel stuck when things at work go sideways, perhaps unsure of how to move forward, but confident that another meeting is not the answer?
Does the science behind your brain, nervous system and behavioral responses excite you?
In ...
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Succession Planning when Organizations Need Plan B
Everyone generally has a Plan A (which rarely works), but when we need a Plan B, how do we deal with the unexpected?
Changes in leadership happen, and the changes depend on the DNA of a new leader and deftly guiding them to ... Read more
Leadership Under Pressure: Getting Warrior Tough
As companies struggle with volatile conditions in the current changeable world of business, it is easy for leaders to become frustrated, stressed, and overwhelmed by constant emergencies and the digital-noise that never seems to stop. As a result ...
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Unstoppable Cultures: Creating and Sustaining Organizations of Enduring Greatness
Every company has a culture. For some, it's a culture of innovation -- new ideas that have never been tried. For others, it's about fun (birthday cakes and costumes are often involved). For others, it’s toxicity and gossip. ... Read more