People’s lives and priorities are changing in dramatic ways before our very eyes. While increasing compensation, promoting from within, offering flexible schedules, and making remote work easier are always good talent strategies, there’s one lever leaders can pull that’s highly accessible, doesn’t have to be expensive, and gives employees something they really want: on-the-job professional […]
Archives for August 2022
Are You Ready to Be Coached?
Before you decide to work with an executive coach, assess your readiness to ensure you’ll actually benefit and grow from the experience. Take a look at yourself in the context of seven characteristics of successful coachees. Are you willing to hold yourself accountable for making progress? Are you open to new behaviors and ways of […]
Does Your Company’s Culture Reinforce Its Strategy and Purpose?
Good strategy has traditionally been seen as the key to business success. More recently, purpose has become an essential element of doing business. But something else is missing: culture, or the essential elements of how an organization and its employees behave, as well as its governing beliefs and principles. And yet, culture often receives less […]
How Leadership Has Changed Over Generations
Servant leadership is not about giving up who you are as a person. Let me explain. When I was a younger man in the workforce, leadership styles under the Baby Boomer generation were different than they are now. These leaders were ready to kick us out if we did not do what they told us […]
The Importance Of Diversity And Inclusion For Today’s Companies
Diversity and inclusion are essential today—something I have seen firsthand within Penn Community Bank. D&I allows organizations to be more inclusive of different ideas, cultures and lifestyles, leading to improved company culture. It also puts companies in the position to hire the best employees from a diverse and often untapped candidate pool while increasing customer […]
Why You Need to Become an Inclusive Leader (and How to Do It)
My passion and drive to be an inclusive leader are heavily guided by my experiences as an openly gay man since coming out in my first corporate job in early 1982, so I know firsthand what inclusion can do for someone. Inclusion in the workplace give people the opportunity to go beyond their comfort zones […]
Back to Basics: A Classic Treatise on Leadership Reissued by Harvard Business Review
By Kevin O’Donnell Understanding Leadership appeared in the September-October 1961 issue of the Harvard Business Review. Regular readers of the prestigious journal must have been puzzled. Who was W.C.H. Prentice, the author of the piece? Far from being a captain of industry, W.C.H. Prentice was a former professor of psychology who had turned his […]
Succession Planning Is Critical in Uncertain Times
n a previous HR position for a global mining company, Cady O’Grady, SHRM-SCP, discovered that half of the company’s employees—sales and administrative personnel, technical experts, and executives—were eligible for retirement within three years. Specialized talent was hard to find in the mining industry in 2008; O’Grady and her leadership team had been concerned about the […]
The 15 Big Challenges Facing Talent Management In 2022
The overriding challenge of talent management will be its capacity to adapt to changes—both construct-wise and management-wise—in order to achieve a vision that is closer and more connected to reality. Managing talent competitively today involves, on the one hand, turning away from the hapless past we have inherited in the shape of HR policies built […]