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2021 | Blog, Lost Knowledge, Managing Organizational Change, Skills Gap Solutions

Rosie the Riveter’s Lessons from World War II for Your Post-Pandemic Workforce

It’s December 7, 1944 – the third anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The U.S. is still fighting World War II and, yet, Macy’s department store in New York City rings up its biggest sales day ever! Sure, the end of the war is in sight. But some of the largest...
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2020 | Managing Organizational Change, Skills Gap Solutions

Building Tomorrow’s Workforce in Today’s Economy: A Framework for Action

This is the last of four posts outlining a practical framework for addressing critical skill shortages today and in your future workforce. See my “Talent, Technology & Timing” post to make sure you’re focused on the right problem for your business. Check out “From...
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2020 | Leadership Development, Managing Organizational Change, Skills Gap Solutions

Don’t Let Leadership & Change Management Mistakes Sabotage Your Future Workforce

This is the third of four posts outlining a practical framework for addressing critical skill shortages. See my “Talent, Technology & Timing” post to make sure you’re focused on the right problem for your business. Check out “From Cross Training to Collaboratives”...
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2019 | Managing Organizational Change, Skills Gap Solutions

3 Critical Needs for Closing your Skills Gap

If you’re looking at a skills shortage you might be looking in the wrong place. Often the real problem in staff performance is an overdue management change. Before you launch into yet another mentoring program, succession planning exercise, or recruiting new team...
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2019 | General, Managing Organizational Change

How to Bring More Creativity to “Wicked” Workforce Problems

Your increasingly common talent problems are only growing more “wicked” every year. Challenges such as, how do we: Attract young talent to our industry, which is decidedly “unsexy”?Do effective succession planning for a uniquely skilled leader or expert?Reskill...
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2017 | Managing Organizational Change

Change Trumps Everything! An Election Upset’s Lessons In Managing Change

There are lots of lessons from the recent shocking upset in the presidential election. But senior executives can really benefit from insights that Donald Trump’s unexpected victory has for managing change. Here are four lessons leaders should heed in managing today’s...
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Rosie the Riveter’s Lessons from World War II for Your Post-Pandemic Workforce

Building Tomorrow’s Workforce in Today’s Economy: A Framework for Action

Don’t Let Leadership & Change Management Mistakes Sabotage Your Future Workforce

3 Critical Needs for Closing your Skills Gap

How to Bring More Creativity to “Wicked” Workforce Problems

Change Trumps Everything! An Election Upset’s Lessons In Managing Change

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