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“Just One More Thing…” is a short-form way that I share ideas, questions and guidance with more substance than a LinkedIn post and less academic rigor than my articles. I hope you find it valuable. Despite the world’s obsession with AI, it won’t determine who becomes a great HR or talent leader. I was reminded […]

“Just One More Thing…” is a short-form way that I share ideas, questions and guidance with more substance than a LinkedIn post and less academic rigor than my articles. I hope you find it valuable. In my 8 Steps to High Performance stage speech, I mention that the primary relationship to master at work is […]

“Just One More Thing…” is a short-form way that I share ideas, questions and guidance with more substance than a LinkedIn post and less academic rigor than my articles. I hope you find it valuable. It’s the tired opening line in a LinkedIn post, the first slide in a consultant’s deck, or the hook in […]

“Just One More Thing…” is a short-form way that I share ideas, questions and guidance with more substance than a LinkedIn post and less academic rigor than my articles. I hope you find it valuable. Your Teams window brightens as an HR consultant appears breathlessly telling you about their consulting firm’s revolutionary discovery. This discovery […]

“Just One More Thing…” is a short-form way that I share ideas, questions and guidance with more substance than a LinkedIn post and less academic rigor than my articles. I hope you find it valuable. We do important, valuable work in HR, but it’s easy to confuse or overwhelm managers with our jargon and process […]

“Just One More Thing…” is a short-form way that I share ideas, questions and guidance with more substance than a LinkedIn post and less academic rigor than my articles. I hope you find it valuable. If you want to succeed in HR, you’ll get things done. You’ll get important things done. You’ll get trivial things […]

“Just One More Thing…” is a short-form way that I share ideas, questions and guidance with more substance than a LinkedIn post and less academic rigor than my articles. I hope you find it valuable. The first differentiator of great HR leaders that we teach in our Talent Management Institute program is Business Junkie. We define that as both […]

“Just One More Thing…” is a short-form way that I share ideas, questions and guidance with more substance than a LinkedIn post and less academic rigor than my articles. I hope you find it valuable. Do behaviors matter? It’s an easy question to answer. Too easy. Ask an HR leader if a person’s behaviors are […]

A few years ago the book Fearless HR said that “the HR profession needs to speak with a strong point of view, a new confidence, perhaps even with swagger.” Swagger. It’s a great word, but likely not among the first 20 that you’d use to describe most HR leaders. Ideally it should be First, let’s […]