Resource Management Innovations
Being an Employer of Choice: Would You Work For You?
On a number of consulting engagements over the years I have been brought in as an objective, neutral third party to affect some measure of ‘change’. There will be some serious conversation at the front end of the client relationship regarding the natural tension that exists in an...
Posted By: Rick Kneeshaw 2010/04/09 Read More
Categories: From the Desk of the HR Manager
Lessons from the Trench: Managing Change
If you have been following the Blog, you have a sense by now that we place a great deal of importance on the leadership responsibility of Vision Casting (where are we going) and Mission Building (how will we get there). Implicit in that transition from current to desired state is 'Change'. For...
Posted By: Rick Kneeshaw 2010/04/08 Read More
Categories: From the Desk of the HR Manager
This week in the news: We're drowning in data and starving for wisdom.
I came across this lament in an article in the news this week that I thought was topical, relevant and could have been written by any one of my colleagues. In part it reads: “We are all suffering from a new global plague of apocalyptic anxiety and overwhelm. We have to manage...
Posted By: Rick Kneeshaw 2010/03/20 Read More
Categories: From the Desk of the HR Manager
From The Sherpa’s Tool Box: Talent Is Never Enough
There is a war for talent that is developing as you read this. The Conference Board of Canada, Industry Canada, Gallop, Ipsos Reid (you get the idea) advises us that there is a skills deficit approaching 2 million skilled workers in Canada as the Baby Boomer generation retires with no replenishment...
Posted By: Rick Kneeshaw 2010/03/19 Read More
Categories: From the Desk of the HR Manager