Organizations are consciously looking at resilience and agility, especially in this age of uncertainty. Now is the time to ensure you have the right human capital processes and leadership in place. Establishing strong human capital requires a robust workforce planning, talent acquisition, and succession planning strategy and process. With this preparation, organizations are able to remain competitive through organizational shifts and restructures. Chief people officers (CPO), chief human resource officers…
More extensive and widespread remote work is one of the pandemic’s important lasting legacies that has ultimately introduced and normalized a more flexible workplace. As a result, many leaders are reexamining how work gets done and by whom. In an effort to build a more resilient and adaptable organization, leaders are adjusting their perceptions towards traditional workforce staffing methods and are increasingly deciding to leverage flexible, contracted interim talent. Many…
As the COVID-19 pandemic begins to wane, we re-enter a world in the midst of a paradigm shift. While it is still unclear exactly what the future workplace will look like, we are fairly certain that it won’t be like the pre-pandemic one. This shift is placing a spotlight directly on Employee Value Proposition. Whether or not EVP is explicitly articulated, every company has one. EVP describes what employees can…
$22.5 million. That’s what Pinterest paid to settle a gender discrimination and retaliation lawsuit brought by its former chief operating officer, Francoise Brougher. As 2020 drew to its chaotic close, the settlement put an exclamation point on issues of diversity, equity, authentic leadership, and the literal price organizations will pay if they aren't proactive in both policies and practice. Platitudes and window dressing don’t cut it with the public or…
On Aug. 26, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission mandated human capital disclosure by public companies selling securities in the United States. These companies must now disclose human capital information that a reasonable person would want to know while deciding to buy or sell a company’s stock. The rule is effective Nov. 9, and there is no grace period. Publicly traded companies need to disclose material human capital information with…
As circumstances and needs change, our approaches must follow suit. Extra weight can include beliefs about things we may have held true and got us to where we are, methodologies or principles we view as "the right way," and practices that may have been the best practice in previous years, but we have since learned much more. As more research and situations evolve, it's time to evaluate these beliefs. To…
Whether it is digital transformation, introducing new protocols, organizational restructuring, or re-branding, organizational change is often met with both enthusiasm and resistance. As a result, opposing collective mindsets form, often creating an "us vs. them" mentality that causes change implementation to grind to a halt, throwing off timelines and stifling success. While no change or policy will garner full support, it is possible to bring almost everyone along in the…
What a season we’re in. The same conversations about impacts of COVID-19 are had daily, so we don’t need to rehash those. What we need to be talking about is how we lead culture development and sustainment through these times. Our decisions regarding how we use our time, money and energy are value statements and we, consciously or not, invest in what we feel carries the most value. This is…
