Over the years, data has supported the notion that culture eats strategy for breakfast. But then subsequent studies suggest that strategy is more important — it eats culture. This year is an interesting mix.
by Theresa M. Welbourne
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What employee resource groups can teach leaders about innovation
What employee resource groups can teach leaders about innovation
By Theresa M. Welbourne
The Biggest Challenges for a Hybrid Workplace—and How to Overcome Them
Jennifer Deal, senior research scientist of the USC Marshall Center for Effective Organizations, on the challenges of hybrid workplaces, in The Wall Street Journal.
How Does Your Garden Grow? The Interface of Employee and Sales Growth Post IPO
Article co-authored by Theresa Welbourne, CEO senior affliliated researcher.
HR Strategy Tops Priority List for 2022: New Findings from the Latest Business Drivers Study
In this study of what Dr. Welbourne calls the Business Drivers Research, she starts by exploring the way many studies are done in organizations today.
How to Steer Clear of Groupthink
by Alec Levenson, Jennifer Mueller, and Sarah Harvey
Harvard Business Review
The ROI of Wellness: Why Taking Care of Yourself and Your Employees Is Good for the Bottom Line
Gratitude, mindfulness and empowerment. Not words usually associated with hard-charging, data-driven organizations—until recently. Increasingly, academic research is proving that employee well-being benefits company culture, employee retention and productivity, and the call to integrate these principles into everyday operations is entering the mainstream. Three USC Marshall researchers including CEO’s Jennifer Deal discuss details of their latest research into this topic.
The 2020 Diversity Impact Award Winners
Material from this post originally appeared in a press release from the Association of ERGs and Councils The 2020 Diversity Impact Award Winners have been announced! The Association of ERGs & Councils (a practice group of PRISM International, Inc. and Talent...
Organizational Resilience – Immediate & Sustained
As a service to our sponsors, we want to provide clarity on where you can focus to help your teams and organizations through these challenging times. Our Senior Researchers have designed a multidisciplinary approach that spans strategy, organization design, technology systems, data and analytics, leadership, and strategic HR. With your CEO Sponsorship, our team is […]
“What’s My Energy” platform allows for energy tracking and productivity optimization
“What’s My Energy?” Take a test drive to learn more about the daily energy pulsing initiative designed to help you learn and improve your personal energy while coping with the challenges of a pandemic. The new What’s My Energy platform, developed by Dr....
Exponential Talent: A Systems Approach to HR Analytics Podcast
In this podcast, CEO’s Alec Levenson discusses why organizations struggle to derive value from their HR analytics efforts and offers useful suggestions for improvement. He offers ideas that are non-intuitive but have demonstrated results. For example, start with the right questions and the data you have, do not fall into the trap of doing fancy analytics when sometimes simple descriptives are all you need and having analytics-driven insights does not guarantee accurate interpretation. Anyone struggling to get the buy-in for investing in analytics efforts or looking to tighten the link between data-based insights and HR decision making will find value in this podcast.
Leaders Speak Out On Energy and Diversity
The latest edition of the Leadership Pulse™ survey of 200 leaders from firms around the world suggests clear links between executives who optimize their energy, leadership support for diversity, and how teams view their organizations’ diversity initiatives.