For this third and final blog in the series on change management, the intent is to provide you and your organization with additional approaches, methods and recommendations for developing and implementing an effective and successful change management strategy for your organization. The Life-Cycle According to the Webster’s Dictionary, a “life-cycle” is defined as “a progression […]

Effective Change Management Methods for Transforming Your Corporate Culture According to basic change management principles, there are specific activities that MUST be undertaken to ensure that ANY change within the corporate structure and/or culture is not only successful but effective, sound and palatable to all parties. To achieve long-term cultural transformation, the leadership team should […]

  The Monumental Changes Ahead for U.S. Businesses While the “information age” has transformed the way we do business and has led to increased productivity, a reduction in labor costs and significantly impacted the way information is disseminated within an organization, it’s also led to more of an impersonal method of communicating and altered the […]

Jim Bird, the Founder and CEO of Work-Life Balance wrote the following quote in October of 2006. “The demand for work-life balance solutions by employees and managers is expanding at an unprecedented rate.  As a result, work-life balance is an increasingly hot topic in boardrooms and government halls today.  Over the coming decade it will […]

Are “Personal Salary Reports” causing confusion for your staff? Why do employees often perceive that their salary is “too low” when their employer has taken great pains to ensure that they are paying their staff a competitive wage? As an HR Consultant, one of the most common concerns employer’s express to me is why the […]

Effective Team Building: Further methods for creating a high performance culture. Team building and team work is key driver to the group’s and organizations success.  Within any team, you’ll find a variety of different people and personalities each with a different task or assignment.  The most effective team cultures thrive where team members recognize and […]

Startups: Hiring The Right People. Since my background in HR and OD consulting started in 1994 in Seattle and continued once I relocated to San Diego following the “burst of the bubble” in 2001, many of my clients in the past fourteen years have been in some stage of “startup.” More often that not, during […]

Economic Slowdowns: Best Practices for Staff Reductions   If you have managers less than 45 years old, there’s a strong likelihood that they’ve not managed during a serious downturn; therefore, they may need some help dealing with today’s crisis in the economy, especially when it comes to talent management and employee relations. Difficult economic times […]

Best Practices for Creating and Maintaining a High Performance Culture Performance Appraisal Systems – Part I: Performance Development Defined What is meant by the terms performance management and performance development and how do they factor into the performance appraisal? How does an organization go about increasing productivity, improving their operational efficiencies, enhancing employee satisfaction (as […]

  I think you would agree with me that following the due-diligence efforts of the lawyers and accountant’s, the HR Project Lead is accountable for obtaining the necessary documents and cultural information to design a Project Plan for mapping the new organization into the existing one.  To ensure a smooth transition of people and processes […]