In 1896, the architect Louis Sullivan, the father of the modern steel skyscraper and mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright, coined the maxim “form follows function” in an article titled The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered. Sullivan’s vanguard approach broke from the prevailing approach of his day, which could be characterized as “form follows precedent.” Note Sullivan’s ...
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The Missing Link: Talent Optimization
For organizations who are serious about getting where they want to go, talent optimization is everything. Most organizations have a strategic plan. All organizations have specific business results they hope to achieve. What lies between plans and results is PEOPLE. Ironically, we find most organizations skipping over the objective assessment of whether they have the ...
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GDPR is in effect May 25th. Here’s what you need to know.
What is GDPR? Many are calling it the largest change in data privacy law in 20 years—the GDPR is a new EU Regulation that significantly strengthens the protection of personal data of EU citizens and personal data collected within the EU. GDPR stands for General Data Protection Regulation. It expands many of the requirements of ...
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Crowdsourcing high-potential leaders
What if we tried crowdsourcing our high-potential future leaders? The narrative is becoming all too familiar: Boomers retiring in droves, Millennials aren’t ready to ...
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Yelling from the Bleachers
Here’s a conversation I’m prepared to have. Short. Direct. Honest. Hi, ______. I’m Heather Haas, Nixon’s mom. I wanted to introduce myself because ...
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Networking to Land a New Job
As President of ADVISA, I’ve always viewed my highest point of contribution as building and optimizing a team of sharp, caring people who share a passion for leadership development and employee engagement. As a result, I take a fair amount of meetings with folks who reach out to me about joining our team and leaders ...
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Get the most out of your people by evaluating performance + potential
Optimizing talent starts with understanding and evaluating your talent in terms of performance and potential. The 9Box tool for evaluating talent is not new, but here’s a new twist. What if you began to define for people what it would take to get to the next level. That is, if you have a “Trusted ...
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Management is a one-on-one sport
When I joined ADVISA I spent a lot of time with one of our seasoned Management Consultants, John Ranalletta. I remember him telling a group of leaders and managers that management is a one-on-one sport. That has always stuck with me because he’s right. Leaders and managers must build individual relationships with their people to ...
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Welcoming a new employee? Invest in building his or her confidence.
Confidence is the Currency of Onboarding Success My use of the word currency probably makes you think of money. Good. Because when you hire a new employee and they enter your onboarding process, your investment in hard dollars, time, opportunity costs and other resources adds up quickly. However, I’m actually not talking about your financial ...
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10 Tips for Using Job Descriptions and Ads Strategically to Optimize Talent
Maybe this sounds familiar: your company’s job descriptions have developed in a very haphazard way over time based on who is in a job when an opening occurs that requires a new description. If so, your company is not alone. Outdated and ineffective job descriptions and ineffectively worded ads are common, according to an article ...
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