The New Rules of Engagement: A Webinar Overview

Traditionally, the “War for Talent” has been understood to mean a competition to attract talent using premium benefits, flex-time, work-life balance, and learning opportunities — all of the key factors to job seekers’ decision making. Each of these benefits promises to result in its own impact on an organization’s bottom line.
Best Practices for Training & Development

As organizations consider more effective approaches to modern training & development initiatives, here are a few things to consider based on our experience designing and developing training programs for our Inspire Software clients:
Training Millennials To Be Leaders: A Timeline for Your Succession Plan

There’s no shortage of chatter around the Millennial workforce. They’re the largest demographic in the marketplace, and they operate much differently from their predecessors. Everything from their expectations to values and work preferences have upended the traditional office environment, which means your succession plan needs to prepare differently for the future of leadership. You need […]
Using Goal Science to Prepare Your Organization’s Future Leaders

Your organization may have an excellent strategy to deliver a brilliant product or service to clients, but without an effective execution plan, that strategy can get lost in the chaos of the moment-by-moment activities performed by the individuals attempting to execute on that strategy each day. While execution of strategy remains critical, research reveals that […]
Goal-Setting at Every Level: Scaling the Leadership Mountain [Infographic]

Setting the right goals across your organization with a cohesive objective helps the entire company work together to scale the corporate mountain. But, only 14% of employees understand company direction. So how do you get everyone on the same lifeline?
Succession Planning: Finding Your Next Generation of Leaders

A common challenge for organizations is how to develop their next generation of leadership. Just as you would invest in tools to improve your organization’s sales, project management, or customer relationships, so too should you have a succession plan in place for the future of your leadership. Developing leaders is a business investment. Its yields […]
How To Help Employees Achieve Flow State

Whether you’re a leader, a contributor, a musician, a student, or an athlete, we can all relate to being “in the zone” at different points in our lives. When we are there, we are so “dialed in” — our concentration, energy, and joy are near their peak. We are feeling and performing at our best, […]
The Autonomous Driven Culture: Developing an Organization of Self-Leaders

30 years ago, the idea of autonomous driving cars was only an amusing notion played out by science fiction television and a few crazy scientists in the Silicon Valley. Now self-driving cars are a viable, economical, and practical reality. A similar trend is evolving in today’s modern 21st-century workforce, where autonomous employees aren’t just science […]
The Most Practical Leadership Practice

Leadership is both an art and a science. Art, because it takes repeated practice in order to master the knowledge, skills, and behaviors necessary to effectively influence others toward meaningful objectives. Science, because any high-quality leadership process can’t be built by trial and error; but rather needs to be theorized, tested, evaluated, revised, and tested […]
The New Rules of Engagement in the War for Talent

The War for Talent continues to be a major crisis for organizations in the United States and around the world today. For the past 20 years, since the “War for Talent” was termed by McKenzie researchers, the battle for the hearts and minds of talent has been fought over a wide variety of issues, from […]