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Preparing for disruption

7 min read

Disruption is a gradual and insidious process—one that companies are increasingly learning to strategize around. Learn to embrace disruption in this blog.

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Going to Mars: How mission, vision, and values can make or break your strategy

5 min read

Your mission, vision, and values can make or break your business strategy. Here’s how to design mission, vision, and values that inspire.

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What is talent optimization?

9 min read

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…

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Hiring the whole candidate is key to a sound talent strategy.

How talent optimization can help you hire and retain

4 min read

I’m a big fan of industry reports and annual summaries that include survey data. Today I took a look at the 21st HR Metrics and Analytics Summit report: How to Hire and Retain the Right Talent in 2019. Based on the survey responses of more than 150 HR leaders from a wide range of industries,…

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How to motivate frontline employees

7 min read

Just because you ask cashiers to collect email addresses from customers doesn’t mean they will. They might not cross-sell products like you ask them to either, or even embody your brand promise of customer service. Motivating your frontline employees— i.e. cashiers and customer service reps—to support your business goals can be a struggle. You might consider…

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How Acceleration Partners made Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work list two years in a row

16 min read

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…

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How PI made the Glassdoor 2019 Employees’ Choice Best Places to Work list

9 min read

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…

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Workforce planning is essential

Workforce planning to meet today’s goals and tomorrow’s

4 min read

Without a workforce plan, HR professionals are filling seats rather than finding talent, and patching problems instead of nurturing engagement.

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Make common sense a part of your human resources strategy.

3 min read

The best human resources leaders run departments that are fluid and proficient. This requires shaping effective processes but also knowing when to bend the rules. In fact, when we asked our people operations team to highlight top HR sins, recruiter Will Otto warned that process isn’t everything. Prioritizing process over common sense can come back to…

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The simple secret to better Monday mornings

4 min read

Chris Butsch is a professional speaker who helps companies supercharge engagement, grow leaders, and keep their best people. He is a leading voice on the ROI of workplace happiness.  Just ask Garfield; Monday mornings are a slog. Traffic is heavier than usual. Client problems have escalated into “emergencies” over the weekend. E-mails have piled up….

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Catalyzing your company for change

8 min read

HR leaders can and should think of themselves as catalysts for change in their organizations, but they can’t and shouldn’t have to do it alone. 

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Tackling today’s human capital challenges

15 min read

From Apple to Starbucks, The Predictive Index CEO Mike Zani talked with Bank of the Pacific Corporate Trainer Tracy Ford on what he learned about managing people at these major corporations, strategic human capital challenges facing Bank of the Pacific and how they tackle them, and the importance of C-suite buy-in. Take a listen or read the full transcription…

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3 ways to improve your Glassdoor rating

5 min read

With over 48 million users and 32 million published reviews, Glassdoor is currently the No. 2 site for job searches in the U.S. 

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Using behavioral requirements to get the right people in the right seats

4 min read

A majority of companies and their hiring managers don’t give adequate consideration to the behaviors needed for a role.

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