Over the past several weeks I have been engaging with about fifty executives on the topic of how they manage their careers. It’s been an eye-opening journey. The landscape is definitely changing and you are running the risk of being left in the dust unless you keep up. I will try to distill my key […]

“Our most engaged workgroup is in a remote community in Siberia” said one of my clients at a recent HR executive peer group meeting. This comment made me realize how very relative the concept of engagement really is and the complexity of creating engagement for companies that operate globally. What is engaging in the US […]

How often in your career as an HR executive have you worked with your “dream CEO?” My guess is that the answer for many might be infrequently or rare. CEOs nowadays are moving a mile a minute and have a lot of conflicting demands. Many are still stuck in the “command and control” mindset of […]

This session with my group of HR executives generated discussion and sharing in response to many of the questions we co-created prior to meeting. My sense is that we had most energy around presenting issues in executive coaching, positioning of coaching initiatives and assignments, and the emergence of more group coaching. There was also excitement […]

I can feel myself getting excited about an upcoming meeting with my group of peer HR executives this Friday. For the last month or so we have been co-creating a list of powerful questions to explore together around executive coaching. See below what we have come up with and add your own (before Friday)! I […]

Last week we had a session on “Keeping Your Brand Authentic: Is It All About Relationships? As always, this group of executives had a truly authentic dialogue that sprang from a number of powerful questions covering a spectrum. For example, we discussed how we all deal with change, we explored whether marketing at the core […]

“I need an anti-depressant…confusion and overwhelm!” This group of HR executives sighed in unison as they realized they were in good company. Nothing like a little joint suffering – being an HR leader in this environment can easily feel loney and overwhelming. One of the important takeaways from this session was simply validation: “I am […]

Since it’s inception in 1996, the purpose of the HR Executive Forum peer group has been to “build community for leaders” and help members grow professionally and personally with the ultimate goal of advancing high-performance people strategies in their organizations and preparing themselves for what’s next. The HR Executive Forum is a place for our […]

Robert Gubas, VP of Global Marketing and Mindy Geisser, VP of Global HR wt Colliers International were hosting this session with 15 marketing executives and acted as catalysts for a discussion around open leadership and how we can leverage social media to create a culture of collaboration and engagement. I have captured some of the […]

Last week the focus of my HR Executive Forum peer group meeting was inward on ourselves, something we do too rarely …seems we still feel guilty and consider it a luxury to care for ourselves. We had great disucssions around a number of different topics ranging from how we keep current in our profession, what […]