by Erika Mookerjie | Aug 12, 2019 | Guest Posts, Human Resources Change Management
Originally published on July 11, 2019 on www.changeleadershipadvisors.com. Many years ago, I worked with a client on restructuring their new product development teams. One day, in the client’s breakroom, the general counsel for the company looked up at me as he...
by Erika Mookerjie | Aug 5, 2019 | Guest Posts, Human Resources Change Management
Originally published on July 3, 2019 on www.changeleadershipadvisors.com. Assume Noble Intent. This phrase has been front and center for me over the past several years and has become a mantra of sorts. It’s a way to remember how I want to interact not only with my...
by Jean Herreman | Apr 20, 2018 | Management
Back in the 1960s, Baby Boomers were famous for the mantra, “don’t trust anyone over 30.” Now Millennials are following their example. They don’t trust leaders, or politicians, or the companies they work for. As a result, they insist on...
by Jean Herreman | Mar 16, 2018 | Technology
Last month, Forbes published Portrait of an HR Data Analyst, which lays out the case for HR analytics, the skills required to excel at it, and the reasons people with these skills are in short supply. The article is one of many that urge HR to beef up our analytics...
by Jean Herreman | Feb 4, 2018 | Human Resources Change Management
Judging by the number of recent articles about performance management, it might seem that organizations are discarding annual appraisals in record numbers. Critics of traditional systems write them off as traumatic events that gobble up time, yet fail in a multitude...
by Jean Herreman | Jan 6, 2018 | Human Resources Change Management
While the NCAA Basketball Playoffs were in full swing, the sound of referees’ whistles filled my house. I wasn’t the one glued to the TV until the wee hours of the morning, although I followed the brackets and even had the conference apps on my phone. The...
by Susan Richards | Dec 17, 2017 | Human Resources Change Management, Workday
My mission this week has been special and urgent: To help my client’s Workday HCM project team get a handle on reporting. Historically, clients have not focused much attention on reporting because they hear early on that Workday has “hundreds of standards...
by Jean Herreman | Nov 24, 2017 | Business, Management
An article in the Harvard Business Review pushed my buttons. The title was How nice bosses get ahead. Nice is a wimpy word, an imprecise word. It pussyfoots. It equivocates. Nice is vanilla, neither a strong compliment nor a biting insult. We default to it when a...
by Jean Herreman | Oct 10, 2017 | Human Resources Change Management
Change management articles and white papers warn us about the havoc change wreaks on employee engagement. Employee fear, resentment, and resistance during major modifications to strategy, structure, culture, systems, and processes are among the biggest obstacles to...
by Susan Richards | Sep 2, 2017 | Human Resources Change Management
It’s easy to recognize a new change manager. You can tell by the panic in their eyes, their trembling hands, and the beads of sweat on their brow. Believing themselves inadequate to drive the initiatives essential to business transformation, they might even be...
