Who Are Your High-Potential Employees?
High-potential employees are those you consider critical to your organization. What are you doing to let your high-potential talent know you want to invest in their career development?
The Missing Link: Connecting Talent Development to Business Strategy
It’s common for organizations to claim they prioritize talent development, but when it’s time to take action, the claim often proves to be a false narrative or undelivered promise. Whether from lack of time, resources or fear of losing employees, a lack of talent...
Daring to Leap: Understanding Who You Are and Owning Your Pathway
With a little over a year under my belt since making a significant career move, I’ve been reflecting on how I got here. I’m fortunate enough to say I’m in the exact place I dreamed of being someday. I’m a business owner. I have a really eclectic and beautiful journey,...
How Continuous Improvement Can Guide Your Business Forward
While it’s nice to put 2020 behind us, there’s no shortage of unpredictable stressors and complex, deeply rooted problems to kick off 2021. Many businesses still feel overwhelmed and are asking: How did we get here? How do we move forward? How do we ensure lessons are...
Five Reasons For Having a Business Partner: One Year Later
Starting a business is one of the most exciting things I’ve ever done, and for over 30 years I have owned three businesses with two of those having partners. By all accounts, I have been blessed with success, but felt after experiencing the loss and death of my...
People Remain Top Focus for CEOs in 2021
This year has been full of uncertainty and challenges, impacting us all in some form. Yet, among all of the changes this year brought, some things have remained the same: people are still at the center of business, and they remain a critical component of success for...
The SA-EQ Leader: The Next Generations of Leadership
Through our consulting work and leadership coaching, we’ve seen a growing issue of leaders who are incapable of delivering effective, empathetic, human-centered leadership. Leaders can have great business acumen and experience, but when they don’t have a people-first...
Reducing Unconscious Bias in Your Organization: Beauty and Height Bias
Even in an enlightened culture with many guidelines and rules to prevent bias, there are many biases that influence hiring and promotion decisions in the workplace. This has resulted in an unfair advantage that some groups of people have over others. We have discussed...
Reducing Unconscious Bias in Your Organization: Age and Name Bias
Selecting the right candidate for an organization continues to be a challenge when matching the candidate’s skills with what the role needs. You may even notice a shift from the words used in job descriptions such as “experienced” and “seasoned,” to words like...