Q & A with Professor Dave Ulrich
January 2014 Nicola Tyler, CEO of Business Results Group, asks Dave Ulrich why HR transformation must become a C Suite priority for business leadership, why Gen X challenges must be taken seriously and his thoughts on Ricardo Semler’s business model previously presented at the Progress Conference in 2013. NT: Typically HR have sat outside of […]
SA Continues to Face the Triple Challenge
Chronic high unemployment, poverty and inequality. Q & A with Professor Dave Ulrich – January 2014 Nicola Tyler, CEO of Business Results Group asks Dave Ulrich how South African HR professionals should respond to the challenges of industrial action and widespread retrenchment. NT: SA continues to face the triple challenge of chronic high unemployment, poverty […]
HR Hopes for 2014
HR outside in. Most HR work still focuses inside the company on employees, leaders, or HR practices. When the work of HR starts with customers, investors, and communities, it focuses on the value HR can create over time. Strategic HR still often uses strategy as a mirror to which HR must respond, while outside in […]
Managing Strategic Conversations for Results – Part 3
Where to from here? Register for our seminar to learn how to manage strategic conversations for results. Click here to read more. In my first blog post, “Strategic Conversations” I outlined a concept for holding a strategic conversation. This simple framework shows how a series of simple questions, when asked in a particular sequence, can […]
Managing Strategic Conversations for Results – Part 2
What happens at work, really? Organizations evolve over time, they don’t just pop out of the ground. What happens over time is that the organization builds a foundation – the solid ground on which a business can be built. This evolves with applied systems, processes, operating models, policies and procedures. As any good franchise consultant […]
Managing Strategic Conversations For Results
Having facilitated strategic conversations for more than 10 years I have discovered that the closer people are to the generation of an idea, the greater the chances that they will implement the solution. In most instances people are much more likely to act on an idea which they perceive to be their own, than they […]
