by Kevin Wheeler | Aug 8, 2011 | Bold HR Ideas
Over the past twenty years or so, corporations worldwide have focused on a variety of initiatives. The bulk of these were aimed at improving efficiency, increasing profit, and ensuring quality. They have ranged from business process re-engineering to Six-Sigma...
by Kevin Wheeler | Jul 8, 2011 | Bold HR Ideas
THIS IS THE THIRD OF SEVERAL POSTS THAT WILL EXPLORE THE FIVE DISCIPLINES AND SEE IF THEY REMAIN RELEVANT IN TODAY’S BUSINESS CLIMATE Part 3- Mental Models & Personal Mastery Mental Models We all come to work with assumptions that are so embedded in our behaviors...
by Kevin Wheeler | Jul 6, 2011 | ERE Articles
There is going to be an exodus of workers soon from businesses all across the U.S. It seems that for all the work recruiters do at the front end, organizations are undoing it at the backend. Frustrated employees are seeking new opportunities in record numbers, but if...
by Kevin Wheeler | Jun 30, 2011 | Bold HR Ideas
THIS IS THE SECOND OF SEVERAL POSTS THAT WILL EXPLORE THE FIVE DISCIPLINES AND SEE IF THEY REMAIN RELEVANT IN TODAY’S BUSINESS CLIMATE Part 2- Shared Vision & Team Learning Shared Vision Apple’s vision is centered on its strengths in design and in creating simple...
by Kevin Wheeler | Jun 28, 2011 | Bold HR Ideas
THIS IS THE FIRST OF THREE POSTS THAT WILL EXPLORE THE FIVE DISCIPLINES AND SEE IF THEY REMAIN RELEVANT IN TODAY’S BUSINESS CLIMATE Part 1-Systems Thinking In 1990 Peter Senge published a book called The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning...
by Kevin Wheeler | Jun 21, 2011 | Bold HR Ideas
When you were in elementary school I bet you received a report card with a section that indicated how well you played with the other kids in your class. Strangely enough, schools have been promoting collaboration in this way for decades, even though it has become a...
by Kevin Wheeler | Jun 14, 2011 | Bold HR Ideas
Do you know that recruiting is one of the least efficient processes in an organization? Transaction costs (cost per hire) are large and there is almost no effort being made to connect that cost with delivering value (quality of hire). At conference after conference I...
by Kevin Wheeler | Jun 10, 2011 | Bold HR Ideas
Australasian Talent Conference Just back from our 5th Talent Management Conference in Sydney. It was a great success with about 400 people sharing ideas, networking, and learning together. These events remind me how far we have left to go to make the virtual world...
by Kevin Wheeler | Jun 9, 2011 | Bold HR Ideas
For more than 150 years the basic college degree- the Baccalaureate or Bachelor’s degree – has been the hallmark of an educated person. During the 19th and most of the 20thcenturies, attending university was largely the province of wealthy men – fewer than 20% of all...
by Kevin Wheeler | Jun 8, 2011 | ERE Articles
Have you ever hired that dream candidate who met every criteria of the position, was courted by the hiring manager, and who negotiated that huge sign-on bonus and then crashed and burned within a few months? There are hundreds of stories like this. Candidates with...
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