When you think of innovating HR or your department how well do you leave your biases at the door? What traditional assumptions do you succumb to as you attempt to innovate? Does the technology come before people?
Why We Prefer Failure Over Success
What if we are instead marching more towards mediocrity than success. Avoiding failure and success. The slow ebb of normalizing mediocrity.
What if we convinced ourselves that we were putting it all out there and giving it everything we had despite knowing that we weren't? We'd still get the pats on the back and could walk away from it lamenting for all to hear "it just wasn't meant to be." Then we could go back to what we knew content with failure until it becomes routine.
Do you have ‘unconscious bias’ in hiring and promotions?
Employee Engagement and Customer Service Strategies
How does one empower their people so they deliver exceptional customer service? Customer service is actually nebulous. It’s a vague concept that varies based on your organization, product, enterprise, and culture. Many items make this up, yet there are some employee empowerment ideas that go beyond the organization.
Training New Managers to Listen
If only 10% of managers have the talent to be great managers, how does the 90% deficit in skills impact your business?
About Jim Woods
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Making Leadership Communication Effective
Authentic leadership requires establishing a genuine connection with people. Most certainly not dictatorial stances incumbent of keeping them in their places. A form of hierarchal control prevalent in low achieving ..
Reimagining Authentic Leadership
Authentic leadership consists of inherent tensions: You must remain true to who you are and at the same time adapt or conform to a situation all the while thinking about your worker’s needs. You must decide what's special about you that works with others. What core values compels you? How have your life experiences shaped you? What strengths differentiate you? What weaknesses
How Managers Can Stand Up for Low Performers
Managers who are personally, high achievers may find it difficult to focus on low performers. The weakness of these A-type managers is that if they can't do something right the first time, they give up or they manufacture a compelling rationale that explains why it is not worth the effort to improve employee satisfaction.
Management Tip: Creating a Culture of Getting Things Done
The Hard Truths About Turnover and Costs
How To Fix Employee Engagement
The untold truth about employee engagement is when employees experience a combination of effective and caring leadership appealing to employee development opportunities. One produces a number, the other real results towards business outcomes. Not the company picnic where one marvels at the CEO flipping burgers but real-world engagement i.e. servant leadership reduces attrition saving you millions.
How to Build a Successful Team
Weekend Movie List from Lucy - for Women Retreat and Motivation
How Leaders Can Remain Calm Under Pressure
Jim Woods Create Your Work-Life Breakthrough
Most of us aspire to live a balanced life. We want to spend the appropriate amount of time and energy in each aspect of our lives. Yet, often our lives fall out of balance due to workplace stress or changes, an accident or injury, an unpredicted event, or even a small worry that grows larger with each passing day.
5 Great Tips on How Servant Leadership Reduces Conflict in Teams
A truly authentic leader doesn’t make assumptions only to leap to blind conclusions. They confidently give the impression of seeing a challenging situation from many viewpoints They consult with many people for perspective and clarification to arrive at a course of action benefiting the organization and employees involved.
Making HR a True Business Partner for Competitive Advantage
As the speed of business accelerates and competition intensifies, firms in nearly all industries are braving greater uncertainty and complexity. In the midst of such challenges, human resources have the potential to be an important asset by making certain that their organization has the human capital they need to vie and also the ability to react quickly to ever-changing environments. This is after all the age of speed.
Why We Should Bid Farewell to HR
I have spoken with numerous executives who are quietly frustrated in their human resources department. Faced with business outcomes they would ideally prefer to use their chief human resource officers in precisely the way they use their CFOs; as sounding boards and trusted advisors who understand real-world business