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CREATING A CULTURE OF ORGANIZATIONAL ALIGNMENT 

Cover Story: Holliday | Kenning’s founding partners are on a mission to “spread the HR gospel” with a focus on people development, driven by a passion to uplift companies by leveraging real-world industry experiences.

PREPARING MANAGERS FOR TOMORROW’S GOVERNMENT

Now, with the switch to working from home, managers have been forced to delegate more and rely on employees to make work-related decisions. That requires a different approach to supervision and different skills.

GAIN A COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE BY CREATING A LEARNING CULTURE

Think of the learning culture as an organizational strategy. Join Doc Holliday to explore how the organization’s strategy guides workforce requirements and how a learning culture drives strategic alignment and continuous improvement from top to bottom.

PREPARING MANAGERS FOR TOMORROW’S GOVERNMENT

Download and read Dr. Trish Holliday’s latest e-book, co-authored with Howard Risher.

Gain a Competitive Advantage by Using the LPL Model

Understanding organizational success and culture is important when leading for impact. Culture is comprised of tangible and intangible aspects and includes patterns of behavior and expectations for behavior that are often deeply ingrained in the organizational fabric.

Redefining HR’s Role in Managing and Improving Performance

It is not clear when or how it started, but employee performance management is often listed as a human resources responsibility. That is simply not true

Reinventing HR

Picture the workplace of years past. The room is filled with row upon row of desks. Employees are doing much the same work, processing documents and shuffling large amounts of paper. Now, picture today’s workplace.

What Would You Pay

What would you pay for a picture of a potato? Seriously, a picture of a common spud? CBS news reported that such a picture sold for over one million dollars.

Creating a Culture of Agility to Ensure Success During Major Organizational Change

Join the conversation to learn how to create a culture of agility and gain ideas for leading change in your organization.

Overcoming Blunders Organizations Make in Succession Planning

Succession planning often becomes an afterthought for organizations because of the rapid changing work environment that exists in today’s workplaces. Between five generations learning how to co-exist with one another, the desire to have an innovative and inclusive work environment, and the rise of skill shortages to fill mission critical roles, managers often become disheartened with planning for the future. 

Avoiding the Dark Side

In the Star Wars series, Luke Skywalker was tempted by the evil Darth Vader to join the dark side and use his powers to defeat those who were rebelling against the control of the Empire. Luke had to fight against this powerful temptation constantly, finally overcoming it and becoming a leading hero in the struggle.

The Art of Hovering

Imagine the following scene. It is 5:00 p.m. on a Friday. You are in your car, and you are leaving the city to go home. As you pull onto one of the major arteries leading out of the city, you come to a complete stop. As you look to your right and left, all you see are more passengers in cars, also stopped.

HR20/20 Report

The IPMA-HR Guide to Transformative HR

A Call to Urgency

Traditionally, the skills needed to be successful in a particular job role have been divided into what were known as “hard skills” and “soft skills.” Hard skills were those more job related, technical skills, such as the skills needed to be good at accounting, engineering, etc.

Succession Planning

Been There, Done That

Have your employees ever attended a training workshop, checked the box that they completed it, and then nothing more was done? Sure, they may have enjoyed the experience, as they indicated on the smiley-sheet evaluations they filled out.