Tag: innovation

Turning Skills into Opportunities: The Value of a Non-Traditional Career Path in a Shifting Business Landscape

By Keira Torkko, Assent Nov 12, 2024 HR Perspectives

Updated: Nov 12, 2024

No matter the sector—whether it’s tech, manufacturing, or energy—industries are evolving rapidly, driven by factors like AI, globalization, and increasing regulatory demands. One key factor unites companies leading this change: the significant role leadership plays in driving and navigating these shifts. In many organizations, the C-suite has expanded to include new roles that address emerging […]

3 Ways Healthcare CEOs Are Addressing Workforce Challenges

By Melanie Blackman, Contributing Editor, HealthLeaders Oct 10, 2023 Recruiting

Updated: Oct 10, 2023

Innovation is a must when addressing evolving workforce needs. Between the labor shortages, diminished margins, accelerating competition, and even leadership vacancies, there’s a perfect storm of workforce factors pressing CEOs. CEOs need to employ meticulous strategies to rein in costs while creatively thinking about building a sustainable workforce. Innovation is key for CEOs while they […]

4 Ways Employee Culture Can Affect Your Bottom Line

By Claire Swinarski, Contributing Editor Mar 21, 2023 Learning & Development

Updated: Apr 5, 2023

An employee culture can seem like an immeasurable concept. Sure, all managers want their employees to be happy at work, but is it really worth pouring time and resources into if you aren’t sure of your return on investment? But employee culture does, in fact, affect your bottom line. It actually impacts it quite a […]

Large Organizations vs. Start-Ups: Top Tips for Leading People Operations

By Scott Glenn, 4G Clinical May 3, 2022 Learning & Development

Updated: May 3, 2022

People operations and HR programs can look dramatically different from company to company, particularly if you compare larger, established companies with small start-ups. And for leaders, this can mean very different challenges and objectives. This is something I know all too well; over the years, I’ve overseen the rollout of these programs at large entities […]

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Build the Muscle to Innovate with Trust

By Srikant Chellappa, President and Cofounder at Engagedly May 6, 2021 Learning & Development

Updated: May 6, 2021

The pandemic has tested the plasticity of company cultures like never before. Organizations that were flexible enough to change large parts about how they operate, and do it quickly, were able to spark innovation that will outlive the circumstances that motivated those changes in the first place. In some cases, entire businesses changed, not just […]

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Paving the Way for Intrapreneurship

By Lin Grensing-Pophal, Contributing Editor Mar 18, 2021 Learning & Development

Updated: Mar 18, 2021

The great minds of business founders are often the driving force that propels those businesses to success. Examples like Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, and Jeff Bezos come immediately to mind. Of course, for companies that are already established, it’s obviously not possible to find a “founder,” but they can hope to find a […]

D&I Hiring: How Leaders Can Impact Organizational Change

By Jeb Banner, CEO, Boardable Mar 9, 2021 Diversity & Inclusion

Updated: Mar 9, 2021

Diversity and inclusion (D&I) initiatives are crucial to an organization’s operations and growth. From a melting pot of characteristics, abilities, and innovation comes the creation of an organization’s most important asset: its culture. Yet, without the proper leadership driving these initiatives, the dynamic of an organization can fall flat.

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How the Black Lives Matter Movement Might Just Save Us from Our Economic Crisis

By Lindsay Mustain, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, Dream Job Coach and Founder, Talent Paradigm Jun 16, 2020 Diversity & Inclusion

Updated: Jun 16, 2020

The world order is being shaken up at a scale our generation has never seen before as we face a pandemic, widespread social isolation, and a global economic collapse. And as if we haven’t seen the worst this year had to offer, we bore witness to the tragic injustice of a man named George Floyd, who was […]

Learn to Innovate, Lead, and Embrace Change

By David Galt, Senior Legal Editor – EHS Training May 29, 2019 Talent

Updated: May 29, 2019

There has been a century of expected compliance by workers to do their jobs a certain way, so we are all expected to keep up! The new model for employee development will be a recognition that each person offers a set of special and different skills that can’t come through compliance with routines and standardized […]