Does Growth Mindset Work?

If you believe that having a growth mindset means that if you try harder you can accomplish more, you don’t need to read this article. We agree and the science in areas from self-efficacy to goal setting to motivation supports that exerting more effort often leads to better results. However, if you believe that growth mindset means that different outcomes in life will occur if someone has a Fixed Mindset or a Growth Mindset, or that it’s possible to increase one’s intelligence or change one’s personality, please keep reading.

What’s your Talent Philosophy?

It’s the missing foundation of talent management in most companies. Does your executive team agree about the best way to manage talent to achieve your business strategy? How do you know?

The Implementation Secrets to One Page Talent Management Webinar

Marc Effron shares his insights from the Harvard Business Review Publishing best-selling book One Page Talent Management. Hear the co-author of the “talent management bible” share his observations and advice on how to implement OPTM in your organization.  Download a PDF of the OPTM Webinar.

Your 2021 Talent Plan: A Webinar Discussion with Marc Effron

Marc Effron shares three powerful areas where your organization should focus in 2021. He provides specific and practical advice about how to build your company’s capabilities, increase performance and make yourself an even more effective leader. Watch this powerful webinar with your team to plan for 2021. …

CHRO Report 2020 Infographic

The Chief Human Resources Officer has emerged as the role to advancing business strategy through the organization’s people. The criticality of the role necessitates a look at the trends in the CHRO marketplace – who are the CHROs of our most complex companies?

The Work Smart, not Hard, Lie

(This article was originally published in Entrepreneur magazine in 2019)   There’s an insidious set of forces working against your being a high performer. It’s not your jerk of a boss, the local cantina that starts happy hour at 2 p.m. or your inexplicably slow wireless connection. It’s…

5 Tips to Set Goals Infographic

5 Tips to Set Goals

How to Manage Performance Management Post-Pandemic

After the most challenging four months for business in a century, many companies can start to focus their attention more than a few days in the future. This turn towards normalcy raises questions about how to manage and reward performance in such an unprecedented year. We suggest that there are no clear rules but that there is a logical approach that can guide how to best (re)-set goals and fairly evaluate at the end of the performance cycle.

The CHRO’s Talent Plan
for the Recovery

It’s understandable that HR’s recent focus has been on employee safety and security. The function has responded admirably to unprecedented demands and unforeseen challenges. As we see the global situation starting to turn, it’s important to refocus our efforts on helping our companies to win through talent.

CHRO Trends 2020 Report

What makes a Fortune 200 CHRO? Find out in the third edition of the CHRO Trends Report, the in-depth guide and analysis of today’s leading Chief Human Resources Officers.