I confess to feeling a bit “humdrum” about planning our December HR executive peer group meeting. The agenda was titled “2014 HR Executive Dashboards”, but the focus of the discussion was intended to be on the legislative and compliance environment, not the aspects of HR hat appeal to me personally:  organizational learning, leadership development, culture […]

“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 […]

Impeccable timing! Several months ago I scheduled a peer group session with my marketing executives and invited guest Aaron Burnett with Wheelhouse Search to discuss web trends. And then, in the midst of migrating to Windows 8 and just a few weeks before our meeting I find out that the web site my daughter’s High […]

Leadership Exercises At this leadership exercises session this group of HR executives explored a number of interesting questions such as: • How is social media changing the context for leadership to an “open leadership” model that drives change? (Charlene Li in “Open Leadership” describes the characteristics of Open Leadership as “Having the confidence and humility […]

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 […]

In a recent Marketing Executive Roundtable meeting members ended up engaging in an authentic discussion around “the power of purpose.” Cathy Cooper, VP of Marketing with Washington Federal shares her takeaways below. We spend our days considering CPCs, KPIs and the psychographic profiles of the Millennials or Baby Boomers that make up our customer base. […]

“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 […]