12Sep
Your Succession Plan Checklist
Part 1 of ETG’s Leadership Transition Series It’s every business owner and corporate leader’s hope that their organization will outlive them. Yet, the numbers show that most businesses are woefully unprepared for the day it does. According to a 2016 research report by the National Center for [...]
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21Aug
How to Structure Leadership Development to Build a Process to Survive at Scale
Businesses, like children, go through many stages of development. In the beginning, the business is just learning its own identity. Daily life is an exercise in “figuring it out”, and there’s a certain threshold for mistakes, experimentation, and ambiguity. As the business grows and matures, [...]
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15Aug
HR Consulting Insights to Help Early Stage Businesses Hire a CHRO
Starting a business is tough—trust me, I’ve done it, too. A new business comes with an unending list of tasks, responsibilities, and risks. In an attempt to remain cost-effective, it’s common for new businesses to pass on hiring a CHRO. This is despite findings that show Fortune 500 companies [...]
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17Jul
Leadership Development Tactics for Effective Succession Planning
From the junior to the executive level, it’s natural for our teams to be thinking about “what’s next” for their career. While it’s great to have ambition about your personal goals, there seems to be a disconnect when we think about how the future looks for our companies. The lack of a strong [...]
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10Jul
6 Smart People Strategies to Manage Leadership Transition During Succession
As the American workforce ages, succession planning has become a very real challenge for organizations of all sizes. Succession is a major event with exceptionally high stakes. There is far more involved in a successful transition than handing over the keys—and yet most organizations do not [...]
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19Jun
7 Inspiring Leadership Podcasts to Add to Your Listening List
When you’re the one your team looks to for guidance and inspiration, who do you turn to? We should all have a few mentors in our lives – but for everyday inspiration, it’s nice to bring in some outside perspectives. Recently, podcasts have grown quite a bit in popularity. What I like about this [...]
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12Jun
Can You Fix a Toxic Work Culture Without Firing Your Team?
We’ve all been there in our careers. One day, you look around and realize something just feels wrong. The tension between employees can be cut with a knife. The tone of certain people’s voices seems strikingly insincere. The mood in the office seems joyless. In my career, I’ve experienced a [...]
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22May
6 Powerful Lessons From TED Talks About Leadership
We all need a little inspiration from time to time. On mornings when I feel like a cup of coffee won’t cut it, I’ve found that watching a TED Talk can really energize me for the day. While it’s easy to let an hour go by with these quick and powerful presentations, a few of […]
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15May
Surprising Leadership Lessons from Jazz
No two ‘regular days’ in any organization are truly the same. As leaders, it’s part of our job description to expect the unexpected—resignations, lost clients, critical errors, even situations we never imagined possible. Organizations are living things, and as with all living things, change is [...]
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24Apr
How People Analytics Can Change Process, Culture, and Strategy
When you read ‘people analytics’, does your heart sink? Often, when we talk about people analytics we think of the missed opportunities. Turnover rate, exit surveys, and disengaged employees often take up more than their fair share of space in these conversations. As tools for collecting [...]
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