Alongside rapid globalization comes the need to enhance the effectiveness of individuals on multicultural leadership assignments. Key to working cross-culturally is taking the time to strategically approach intercultural relationships and acknowledging that there’s an inherent extra layer of complexity...

Learning and development professionals have never been at the top of the corporate salary scale. Whether placed in the human resources function or elsewhere, training professionals are rarely seen as the most essential, powerful or highly regarded employees, not even when viewed from within their own...

HR practitioners who want to gain the respect of senior staff must develop a sound understanding of the operational side of the business before launching in with strategies and suggestions, says Newcastle Permanent Building Society HR manager Tiffany Green. Green, whose career has spanned manufacturing,...

A tongue-in-cheek look at some signs that employees are not engaged, followed by proven action plans to improve that situation. For decades, studies have shown that employee engagement has a direct influence on a company’s financial performance, its capacity to recruit other high performers and...

Much has been written about the detrimental effects of micromanagement, but there’s another less talked-about style of management that can be just as crippling to organizational efficiency: undermanagement. “Based on workplace research we’ve been conducting since 1993, there is a...

For years, companies have used exit surveys to hear the brutally honest thoughts of departing employees. After all, individuals who are about to leave a company have almost nothing to lose when they write down their most candid thoughts about their job, boss or co-workers. While exit surveys may help...

Burnout is such a critical issue within talent management. The price a company pays for wringing the life from its employees is far higher than keeping a consistent work environment, which allows for a reasonable life to be had outside of the daily work schedule. Employee burnout can be identified...

Two years ago, I wrote the following in Chief Learning Officer magazine: “Reality is an endless stream of knowledge, culture and ideas that flows faster and faster. Traditional books are snapshots of that stream. The swifter the stream, the shorter the life of the book. A book is an event. We...

Many organizations are actively identifying top performers and building retention plans for these key individuals. This effort is largely being put into place in anticipation of the economic rebound and the “abandon ship” cycle – when employees leave a company in favor of another...

Each international assignment represents an investment – a monetary and talent investment for the organization, and a career and family investment for the individual. Whether the organization is a large multinational with expatriates in multiple locations or a small firm just entering the global...