Retention and recruiting were factors in the downfall of Apple’s $10 billion EV car project! Boeing’s missing door catastrophe was also caused by overlooked HR vulnerabilities. Article Descriptors | Another case of bad HR – Apple’s EV failure – Identifying HR vulnerabilities – 6-minute read Here We Go Again, First …
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Bad HR Can Cost You Billions, Just Ask Boeing – Why HR Needs To Embrace Risk Management
Boeing is suffering an estimated $45 billion loss from a single employee error. So, add reducing errors to HR’s responsibilities, or this could happen to you. A Think Piece – Urging HR to develop a risk management process that focuses on reducing employee errors. Before you assume that employee errors …
Read More »A Fresh Eyes Review… The Key To Getting Any Business Proposal Approved (And a Promotion)
A second fresh perspective opinion is the key step in getting executive approval for any proposal. Descriptors – proposal approvals / a fresh eyes review – how to – <3 min. read Fresh Eye Reviews – Why They Work A Fresh Eyes Review (FER) is when a critical person from …
Read More »8 Ugly Numbers… That Highlight HR’s Failures
A Think Piece – Posing the question, “Is it time to take a closer look at failures in HR?” Understanding The Many Benefits Of Failure And Criticism With few exceptions, throughout my career, I found that HR professionals are positive individuals who don’t even want to talk about failure. That …
Read More »A Decision Filter… A Simple Tool For Making Fast Objective Program Approval Decisions
Leaders often have difficulty saying no. But decision filters make rejecting weak proposals easier. Descriptors… Decision-making / the decision filter tool – how-to – criteria for rejecting weak projects – 4 min. scan. Yes, in today’s business environment, many leaders are under pressure from executives, customers, and employees to “do …
Read More »Most Don’t Rate HR As Strategic – Here’s Why (Outside the box actions for making HR strategic)
Not once in our history has HR convinced a majority of our business leaders that we were strategic. Yes, despite the fact that I’ve never met an HR leader who didn’t continually talk about becoming strategic. New survey data reveals that all of that talk hasn’t translated into results. And …
Read More »Raise The Excitement Level Of Your Employees… Because Employee Engagement Has Lower Impacts (So managers must accept responsibility for increasing employee excitement)
Managers receive many benefits after they learn how to create higher levels of employee excitement. For a manager, there are few things more stimulating than working closely with a team full of highly energized and excited employees. Workers that, because of their usual high energy and excitement levels, are eager …
Read More »Deepfake Candidates – Yes, A Single Deepfake New-Hire Will Cost You Millions (Have you had a remote worker log in their first day and then disappear?)
On their 1st day, a deepfake remote hire will steal your secrets, plans, data, and install ransomware. Also, if a single North Korean deepfake new hire continues to be employed for months, the damages they can cause will continue to grow. And they won’t stop growing unless you accidentally stumble …
Read More »Assess Your Talent Competitiveness – And Learn If Your Takeaway/Giveaway Score Is Positive? (This most powerful under-reported strategic talent metric reveals your net talent gain.)
CEOs are fierce competitors who expect you to win literally every talent battle against top firms. And because CEOs see everything through an “Us against them” lens. Their desire to win every time extends beyond product competition and into talent. However, to CEO’s, not all talent battles are equal. The …
Read More »Talent Lessons From The Super Bowl – Prioritization Leads To Excellence (Allocating resources to high-impact areas will improve your results)
I’ve found that the highest impact transferable practice from the NFL to business is prioritization. And if you’re not familiar with the concept, when something receives a higher priority. The organization places a laser focus and narrowly targets an area where allocating more resources is essential in order to be …
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