by Susan Richards | Nov 3, 2014 | Human Resources Change Management
Change management is one of the Internet’s most searched-on topics. Put those words into your search engine and you will get 476,000,000 results. Narrow it and the numbers are still enormous: Change Management Plan gets 208,000,000; Change Management Strategy...
by Susan Richards | Oct 8, 2014 | Human Resources Change Management, Technology
Working in HR technology, I’m constantly involved in organizational change. A word I’m hearing a lot lately is disruption—not surprising, since many of my clients are implementing Software as a Service (SaaS), an acknowledged disruptive technology. The...
by Susan Richards | Apr 22, 2014 | News
On Monday, April 21st, 2014, the Small Business Administration, AARP, and the Georgia Small Business Development Center held a workshop on Exploring Entrepreneurship. Participants interested in business ownership were taken through a series of fundamental questions...
by Susan Richards | Apr 8, 2014 | Business, Women in Business
Recently, SteelBridge Solutions, Inc. earned certification as a Women’s Business Enterprise (WBE) by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council, a non-profit organization that provides certification, opportunities, and resources to businesses owned,...
by Susan Richards | Mar 24, 2014 | Business
Writing for Entrepreneur online, Charu Chandra says entrepreneurs have much to learn from the practice of yoga. Be flexible, she advises, find balance, simplify…Those suggestions would have helped me manage the stress and uncertainty of my startup year with...
by Susan Richards | Mar 7, 2014 | Human Resources Change Management
In a LinkedIn post about communicating organizational change, Maya Orbach points out that most organizations spend a disproportionate amount of time and energy on leaders and top management. Ideally, every employee is a target for change messages; however, scarce...
by Susan Richards | Feb 20, 2014 | Agile HR
If you are following my blog, you will not be surprised that my eyes and ears are tuned toward evidence that HR is becoming more agile. I found it in an article posted on MSN Careers by Matt Ferguson, CEO of CareerBuilder. Ferguson shared 7 trends to watch in the New...
by Susan Richards | Jan 9, 2014 | Agile HR
Last week I checked in with Marie, the Vice President, Human Resources of a mid-size energy firm. We’ve known each other for more than ten years, so I was surprised when she said she couldn’t talk long—she had to go find more hours in her day. It turns out...
by Susan Richards | Apr 25, 2013 | Human Resources Change Management
Overcoming the Common Challenges Business transformations are occurring at a quickening pace. Executives charged with meeting the demands of a permanently volatile global economy have one eye on the clock as they assess new technologies, reconsider processes, and...
