The Earning Curve: Corporate Learning Moves Up in HR Rank By Rocky White, President and Founder, The SyN Learning Institute Earlier this year, Deloitte released its Global Human Capital Trends for 2015. Deloitte Human Resource Analyst Josh Bersin says leadership continues to top the chart as the perennial favorite. Not surprising, says Bersin, when…
DetailsManaging Change: Strategic Planning Moves from Meetings to Mindsets Change is the only constant in life (and even more so in business). Forecasting change and constructing actionable plans to address new situations and needs is at the core of strategic planning. Ironically, organizations are finding that the function of predicting and reacting to change…
DetailsRear View: Business Acumen Signs Line the HR Road By Rocky White, CEO, The SyN Learning Institute “In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield,” quotes Warren Buffet. From my driver’s seat, the rear view has been filled with headlines proclaiming the importance of business acumen for sometime now.…
DetailsThe Name Game: New Titles for Administrative Assistants By Rocky White, CEO, The SyN Learning Institute Since the term “secretary” went out of favor in the 1970s, organizations have been trying to find the right job title to describe an increasingly expansive role. Most widely used now is “administrative assistant,” but in today’s high-tech and…
DetailsThe Bleeding Edge: Top Trends in Talent Management By Rocky White, CEO, The SyN Learning Institute Companies invested more than three billion dollars in talent assessment in 2014, which is pretty solid evidence that hiring the right people remains one of the most important human resource functions out there. If people are a company’s…
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DetailsImproving Communication: What Would Henry Ford Do? By Rocky White, CEO, The SyN Learning Institute “Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs,” quoted Henry Ford. He was speaking about his theories of mass production and went on to prove his point and change the world by breaking down the complex…
DetailsLeadership is a hot topic right now. But not for the usual reasons. In the past, employers chose some folks to get special training or assign expanded roles, so they could gain new skills and move up the ranks of the organization. This worked when organizations were hierarchical. But today, with flatter structures that look…
DetailsHow engaged are your employees? In the 2012 Global Workforce Study, Engagement at Risk: Driving Strong Performance in a Volatile Global Environment, conducted by Towers Watson, they found that: 35% of workers are engaged 22% are unsupported 17% are detached 26% are disengaged Engaged workers scored high in: believing in company goals, having an emotional…
DetailsIs That Your Phone Ringing? This past New Year’s Eve, Pope Francis called a small convent of five Carmelite nuns in Lucena, Spain. Instead of getting one of the nuns on the phone, he got an answering machine and had to leave a voice-mail message. Here is his message: “What are the nuns doing that…
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