By Patty Gaul You’ve done a great job at what you’ve been doing—maybe as a marketer, a customer service rep, or a clinical nurse. So, you’re“rewarded”with a promotion to a leadership position. The only problem—well, the main problem, anyway—is that you haven’t been trained to fill…
By Mehmet Baha After an airplane journey of 16 hours, I picked up my luggage from the conveyor belt, exchanged money and started walking again to get a shuttle bus to the city center. I was exhausted. I could feel the jetlag all over my…
It is a typical business day for a marketing professional. She arrives in the office, turns on her computer ready to use a special software to do her work. “Your software license is expired. Please contact the sales team of the software company.” is the message she sees. Frustrated, she immediately contacts the sales team of the software company to have the software license extended.
Over the last 10 years I have found myself in countless numbers of virtual meetings, delivered hundreds of virtual presentations and delivered many virtual training sessions, and over that time I have developed my own Virtual Fluency in being able to be effective and efficient when leveraging these virtual technologies.
How many times have we seen a job description that says, “innovative leader,” “agile thinker,” etc. etc.? But then there’s a bullet point buried beneath that saying:
“MUST HAVE 5-7 YEARS INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE.”
This whole talent game is going to have to be rethought.
“A company is like a ship … everyone should be prepared to take the helm.”
—Henrik Ibsen
Digital nomadism has been the center of discussion since the 2000s and 2010s. This is the third series of blog posts related to HR Nomads that follows up HR Digital Nomadism
By Mehmet Baha We had a common friend. That is how the music band leader got my mobile phone number and called me. A few days later I found myself in a studio in Berlin, Germany. A producer, who was working at one of the…
Learning is not failure – but sometimes it can feel like it in the middle of the process. In fact, this is why so many personal and organizational change attempts fizzle out. The webinar focuses on developing 5-stages of change that give leaders a way…
By Gosia Kluk L&D Professionals’ role is to make sure that employees are equipped with skills, knowledge and the proper attitude they need to excel at work. Competencies may vary depending on the roles of each employee, their organisations’ goals, or within their chosen industries. Some…
