What Ariana Grande’s “7 Rings” taught me about values
Your mission, vision, and values are critical to successfully executing your business strategy. Are yours clear and inspiring action?
Company Culture
Read More
Going to Mars: How mission, vision, and values can make or break your strategy
Your mission, vision, and values can make or break your business strategy. Here’s how to design mission, vision, and values that inspire.
Ignore your culture and it’s likely to go away.
Companies are recognizing the critical role that culture plays in hiring and retaining top talent. But corporate culture can’t be left to chance.
Reason #4 why employees quit: poor organizational fit
Disengagement can be caused by misalignment with jobs, managers, and teams. Here’s reason number four why employees quit.
3 signs you have poor organizational structure
Here are three signs you have poor organizational structure. If you see that your organizational design needs fixing, we can help.
3 ways Gen Z will change the workplace
Move over, millennials: Generation Z is growing up, and its oldest members are now entering the workplace. Individuals from Gen Z (ages 7-22 in 2019, according to Pew Research) have much in common with millennials—but there are some significant differences, too. The more you understand what makes Gen Z tick, the better positioned you’ll be…
How to help clients craft their mission and vision statements
When you’re working with clients to solve their business challenges, you might consider having them revisit their mission and vision statements. Too many companies phone it in when writing these key messages because they think mission and vision statements don’t matter. But if approached intentionally and strategically, they can make a massive positive impact. As…
What is talent optimization?
Take a good hard look at your company. Is it performing at its absolute best? If you’re like most leaders, you struggle to overcome common business challenges like turnover, employee disengagement, a changing market, bad hires (the list goes on and on). In spite of your best efforts and your best intentions, you can’t quite…
How to change organizational culture: 5 tips
“I love the feeling of dread in the morning,” said no one ever. Yet somewhere today, someone you know—someone who may work for you—woke up dreading the day ahead. The job that used to bring them joy and inspiration is now a tedious obligation. They’re disengaged and it didn’t happen overnight. As a leader, it’s your…
3 new talent management trends to kick off 2019
Stacia Sherman Garr is a researcher and thought leader on talent management, leadership, D&I, people analytics, and HR technology. A frequent speaker and writer, her work has been featured in Fortune, Forbes, and The New York Times. Stacia co-founded RedThread Research in 2018, after leading talent and workforce research for eight years at Bersin by Deloitte. Before Bersin, Stacia spent nearly five…
8 leadership lessons of 2018
Take a leadership lesson—or eight—from the annals of 2018. Let’s take a look back at the year that offered a slew of successes and a few cautionary tales.
How Acceleration Partners made Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work list two years in a row
When you want to learn leadership lessons, look to the people who aren’t just talking the talk but also walking the walk. Acceleration Partners landed a spot on Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work list two years in a row, and CEO Robert Glazer generously agreed to sit down with our own CEO, Mike Zani, to…
3 lessons about incentive pay
Like any powerful management tool, incentive pay can have pitfalls as well as benefits for companies just getting into it. Learn to roll it out right.
How PI made the Glassdoor 2019 Employees’ Choice Best Places to Work list
In my mind, The Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Best Places to Work list is the holy grail of human capital type awards. There’s no application process; there are no fees; there’s no gaming the system; it is crowdsourcing at its finest. And there’s more competition to get on this list than any other list out there—by…
Hiring for cultural fit vs. hiring for inclusion
Business leaders can hire for cultural fit and still ensure the creation of a diverse talent pool to harvest innovative ideas. Here’s how.