Organizational Resilience–Buzzword or Competitive Strategy?
Building Resilient Organizations: A Conversation with Lamya Alaoui
Organizational resilience is about more than just surviving during hard times, it's about flourishing in the face of adversity, transforming challenges into opportunities and carving out a path to enduring success. This perspective, shared by Lamya Alaoui, a multifaceted executive with extensive experience leading organizational transformation, was the inspiration for lively conversation with Brenan German of Bright Talent. Together they explored perspectives on how organizations can build resilience and how HR leaders can make the business case to C-level execs for investing in organizational resilience as a competitive strategy.
Thoughts on Ulrich’s Article – human capability delivering value
Dave Ulrich often talks about the tension and paradox between people practices and business expectations. After reading his article on the “Past, Present, and Future of Human Capability: Delivering Value to All Stakeholders” a paradox and tension emerged between human ingenuity and adaptation.
Workplace Challenges & Engagement: My Thoughts on Two Key Articles
As a Gallup alum, I am a fan of the organization and frequently share their articles, which I find very insightful. Ben Wigert, Ph.D, MBA and Ryan Pendell of Gallup recently published an important article on the seven workplace challenges for 2025 that is worth reading. It speaks to the importance of employee engagement, which is at historic lows.
Thoughts on Bersin's HBR Article re. Boost Your Teams Productivity by Hiring Force Multipliers
HR Leaders, in this Harvard Business Review article by Josh Bersin, he highlights the great success of Netflix as a company that continuously evolves and outperforms most industry standards while continually hiring and retaining top talent.
Winning HR Budget Approval: Let’s Talk To The CFO
Budget season can be a time of strategic hope – and frustration – for HR leaders as the “new vision” evaporates, pass after pass, into a boiled down version of the same old budget with the same old limitations. It doesn’t have to be this way.
The secret to budget success is practical and doesn’t just take place during budget season.
Pay transparency – for better or for worse?
How to build a pay transparency foundation and integrate it into your culture.
While we’d be excused for thinking terms like “gender-wage gap”, “pay gap”, “equal pay” and “glass ceiling” are modern concepts – focused on the disparate treatment women and historically under-represented groups experience in the workplace – political activism focused on addressing these inequities date back to at least the 1860’s.
Read the Q&A with Michael Kestenbaum, Managing Director with Gallagher’s Executive Compensation practice to learn some best practices for developing, implementing and managing pay transparency in an organization.
Challenged to Get HR Budget Approved? Let’s talk to the CFO
Budgeting. For HR leaders it’s a time of hope and, too often, frustration. Learning to speak the right language and building an ongoing relationship with your organization’s finance leaders can pave the way to HR budgeting success. We sat down with a veteran CFO to find out more.
Read the Q&A with Michael Rodriguez, Clinical Assistant Professor of Accounting at Baylor University, Business Advisor, and former CFO for organizations such as Magnolia and Clarient (a GE Healthcare company) to learn some best practices.
Want To Win The Fierce Competition For Talent? Live Up To Your Marketing
Highlighting company values in candidate marketing is a great strategy, but candidate experience must live up to them.
Employees are changing jobs at a greater clip than ever before. In an effort to stand out in recruiting, it’s smart to lean into your company values when marketing job openings. But if candidate experiences – and subsequent employee experiences – don’t live up to those values, you’ll lose the best candidates and your employer brand will suffer.
6 Steps for Sourcing & Recruiting the Right Candidates
Once you’ve done your workforce planning, the process of sourcing and recruiting flows naturally out of that exercise. Here are six tips for getting the right flow of candidates coming your way.
6 Ways to Drive Effective Workforce Planning
Workforce planning is critical to creating a great candidate experience. Here are six key considerations that will help you drive effective workforce planning that nets you great hires in roles that fulfill your organization’s objectives.
Employee Experience Starts with Candidate Experience
The Employee Experience Lifecycle is both the employee journey and the HR processes that define every interaction with employees – from the initial job posting all the way through the exit interview. The goal is for employees to start, and end, their employee experience with nothing but good feelings about you and your company.
Now, More than Ever, Employee Experience Matters
Employee experience drives productivity, revenues and employee retention. Take a journey through the Employee Experience Lifecycle to understand best practices that will help you improve your HR operations.
What Do You Need To Become A Recruiter?
Part 3 of a 3-part Series
Talent acquisition professionals share their personal career stories, revealing how common it is for recruiters to come into the profession as a 2nd or 3rd career. Many were drawn to recruiting through serendipity or by seeking to expand their own careers in new and interesting ways.
In the culmination of this three-part series, top talent acquisition professionals share what additional advice they have for would-be recruiters.