Serious About Sustainability in 2010
A funny thing happened on the way to 2010. Amid blistering debates over health care, arguments over how to deal with double digit unemployment, and a general sense of conflict and gridlock on many other socioeconomic issues, one area of virtual consensus has emerged in the business world: the rise...
Reviving Training's DOA ROI
ROI is a funny thing. Why is it that no one directs the IT department to "get us the return-on-investment on our e-mail system," yet corporations think nothing of forcing the training department to project ROI on every learning program and technology deployed? And a down economy only intensifies the...
Are You Wasting Time and Money on the Wrong Retention Strategies?
Here's a late-breaking bulletin: employees leave their jobs because they're dissatisfied with their compensation. Are you shocked? We weren't either. But when results of i4cp's latest survey on Retention Strategy and Execution confirmed the top reason workers bail, we decided to take a closer look.
Ten Critical Performance Issues for 2010
Are we really three weeks into the new year already? Time flies when you've got too many things to do and not enough time to do them. That's why both organizations and individuals need to prioritize. Not only can setting priorities make organizations less frenzied, they can make them more effective -...
The Five Domains of High Performance
Pick a leader - any successful leader. Then search Amazon and see how many books and other publications come up on that person. Abraham Lincoln? 83,642. Gandhi? 61,923. Even Barack Obama, who was widely introduced to the world just five years ago, has 8,670. People love studying successful people.
It's 2010. Where's My Jetpack?
As we leave the "aughts" (rhymes with "naughts") and enter the (what should we call this next decade, the "tens"? The "teens"?), it is clear that a large part of the population is disappointed. Not just because the last decade was the worst in history for stock market performance, but because the...
Thou Shalt Not Poach Competitors' Talent ... or Maybe Thou Shalt!
Are corporate recruiters re-inventing the rules that govern their work when it comes to sourcing talent? Internal recruiting functions may be headed in that direction, suggest results of i4cp's new study on competitive recruiting practices. The figures show some companies are putting aggressive...
Does Your HR Scorecard Help Your Organization Win?
The calendar has already turned to December and with it the promise of a new year. While in our personal lives a new year usually signals "New Year's Resolutions," our organizations practice another ritual: assessing the current year's accomplishments and setting goals for the coming year. Although...
Plato, Competencies and the Ideal Employee
Maybe you have a vague recollection of Plato from your college days. You know, the Greek philosopher who believed in the existence of some ideal world that's separate from our physical world? He is, of course, the source of the term "Platonic ideal." Whether we know it or not, most modern managers...
Soft Skills by Any Other Name
Many businesspeople don't like the term "soft skills." It seems too touchy-feely and fuzzy to have a hard and measurable business impact, and they worry that this phrase diminishes a critical set of business skills. But they needn't be so concerned. By any other name, soft skills are just as crucial...
