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Three Questions Every Employer Should Ask in 2018
It’s that time again—time for the annual flurry of predictions about the world of work in the new year and beyond. The list of trends that are forecasted to change the future of work is long. Analytics Artificial Intelligence Automation Digitization Generation Z The Gig…
6 Tips for Creating Strategic Plans That Actually Get Implemented
2017 is quickly coming to a close and business professionals across the globe are engaged in a common annual ritual. They are assessing how well their organization performed over the past year and crafting plans for a more successful 2018. Through this process, many professionals will uncover…
Give Your Boss What They Really Want
In honor of boss’s day, we’re taking a look at what employees can do to help their managers. Be sure to also checkout APQC’s research into how people and organizations can improve leadership as well as our advice on what individuals can do to become better people managers. 98 percent of bosses…
A Culture Change Success Story
How Royal Bank of Canada Engaged Employees in Agile Making organizational change stick is one of the most common and vexing challenges faced by organizations today. In a recent webinar, APQC members heard how Canada’s largest bank, with offices in 37 countries and more than 80,000 employees, got…
Summer Fridays Are Great, But . . .
July was an especially great month to be an APQC employee. We met our performance goals in June and earned the coveted reward of half-day Fridays for all of July. As long as we got our work done and made sure members were taken care of, we were free to take Friday afternoons off and head to…
Augmented Reality Benefits on an HR Budget
Augmented reality—AR for short—has the potential to completely redefine what it means to be a skilled worker. I read this prediction in a recent Entrepreneur magazine article: The Augmented Reality Workforce is Coming. Here are some snippets from the article. “…
The Greatest Talent Solution—Ever
Has unwanted turnover got you down? Tired of open positions taking months to fill? Worried about leaders retiring and taking years of expertise with them? I’ve got a solution for you. It’s strategic workforce planning. And, it’s the most fruitful human capital management process you’ll…
Managers, You've Got a Bigger Productivity Problem Than March Madness
This is the best time of the year if you are a college basketball fan and the worst time of year if you care about organizational productivity. We are at the beginning of a three-week period called March Madness where college basketball takes center stage. Even people who are not typically fans…
Is the Employee Survey Process Broken Too?
A lot of attention is given to the broken performance review process. But, has this focus on performance reviews led us to overlook another human capital management process that is also in need of fixing? Recently, I read a blog post that had me asking this question. The blog post, Innovate,…
Making 2017 My Year of "Personal Accountability"
My husband is a college basketball coach. Over the holiday break, he gave each of his players a copy of the book, QBQ: The Question Behind the Question®. He had noticed that when his players made mistakes on the court, their first response was to blame a teammate. By…