Change can be intimidating and for many organizations the activities around a skills survey can be seen as a prelude to a big change like layoffs, a reorg, or even a merger or acquisition. This is a natural, albeit frustrating, response to this type of initiative – but it can be avoided.
That's why we've identified 4 steps you can take to put your employees’ minds at ease when it comes to skills management.
Read MoreLet’s get straight to it- 2020 is the year of upskilling. Are you hopping on the upskilling bandwagon?
While upskilling may not seem all that different from regular training, the context in which upskilling applies differs greatly. Employees experience regular training to expand their skill sets and advance their careers. But, when companies see macro shifts in the way they operate, such as a massive digital transformation, that requires vastly new skills they can turn to upskilling to fill those gaps.
Read MoreYour projects have an immediate and long-term effect on the health and success of your organization. You need projects to be completed on-time, on-budget, and the result has to work. Simply put, the life of your organization depends on it. The people you place on your project teams will make or break your project results. Selecting the right people with the right skills is not an exact science, but you can always improve your decisions using data.
Here are 6 ways to use data to build better project teams.
Read MoreWhen you think of people analytics you may think it’s only an HR tool or that you don’t need a tool to tell you about your people. You work with them every day. As their manager, you already know them. Well, that may be true, but how do you really know? Is it just a gut feeling or do you have hard evidence?
Read MoreWe are constant creators of data at-home, at-work and everywhere in between. We understand that organizations are collecting information about us, our shopping, our movements, our relationships, our habits. It’s through the collection of this data, and analysis of this data, that we get bombarded with even more data suggesting things to buy, places to go, people to meet, things to do.
Data. Is. Everywhere.
Read MorePlain and simple, the #1 thing HR professionals can do to improve in 2020 is to learn how to leverage data. This is not a new thought, nor is it necessarily a new skill. HR professionals have been using data for generations just not in the ways that data must be used today.
Read MoreThe end of an era and the beginning of a new decade of work is fast approaching. The way we work has already changed significantly over the past 10 years and shows no signs of stopping. How will you ensure your workforce succeeds in 2020?
Read MoreOnboarding is a crucial step in any employee-employer relationship. It’s your new employees’ first impression of your company and this impression is long-lasting. Think about your last first date. Did they make a good or bad impression? How did that affect the rest of the relationship?
Now, this isn’t a one-way street. A great onboarding process gets new hires to work faster, enables greater productivity, and earns a greater return for the company. Given the benefits (and downsides), optimizing onboarding processes should be a top priority. Yet, the numbers show this is not the case for most organizations.
Read MoreWe are pleased to announce a new partnership between Visual Workforce and PeopleBest. PeopleBest offers a revolutionary, scientific and simple way to predict success inside people, teams and companies.
Read MoreWe are pleased to announce an exciting partnership expansion between Visual Workforce and Capital TechSearch (CTS). CTS is a four-time Inc 5000 honoree, recognized by Forbes Magazine as one of the top 200 recruiting firms in the nation. CTS provides industry-leading companies a competitive advantage in talent acquisition by delivering strategic recruiting solutions for IT and Sales professionals on a retained, direct hire, and contract to hire basis.
Read MoreWe are pleased to announce a new partnership between Visual Workforce and Talent Management Academy. Talent Management Academy provides employers with a competitive edge in talent acquisition through its unique system of Agile Emotional Leadership, a change process to be managed both at the personal and organizational level.
Read MoreDigital transformation in any organization is a very big change. But change must happen for any business to survive. The most recent report 2019 Executive Perspectives on Top Risks states boards and C-suite leaders globally are most concerned about their organizations’ ability to transform so they can compete with organizations that are “born digital.”
Read MoreWe are pleased to announce a new partnership between Visual Workforce and The Change Decision. The Change Decision works with leaders to show them how to create high-levels of team engagement to generate exponential value. Using deep expertise in team effectiveness, change leadership, and group decision-making, The Change Decision shifts the way teams operate and shows companies how to engage their teams to deliver the results they are seeking.
Read MoreChange is inevitable, especially in today’s evolving digital economy. The majority, if not all, organizations will undergo a transformation in the coming years. This could be the result of a merger or acquisition, a product expansion, a strategic pivot, or a digital transformation.
We wanted to explore how leveraging data in your change management approach can help combat several challenges business leaders face that contribute to the 70% failure rate. To investigate how data can elevate your approach to change management, we sat down with two experts: Cynthia Siewert and Tammy Marino MBA, Ed.D.
Read MoreIn the digital age, required skill sets are constantly changing. You may be looking to upskill your current team or hire new talent to fill those skill gaps. Or maybe you’re looking to elevate your own skills and career. Whatever your goals, welcome to the IT Career Skills Series. In this 10 part series, we will breakdown the top skills for each role your need on your IT dream team.
Web application security positions have many titles associated with them. Call it what you want, but the main objective of this position is to defend web applications and their digital assets from cyber-attacks.
Read Moren the digital age, required skill sets are constantly changing. You may be looking to upskill your current team or hire new talent to fill those skill gaps. Or maybe you’re looking to elevate your own skills and career. Whatever your goals, welcome to the IT Career Skills Series. In this 10 part series, we will breakdown the top skills for each role your need on your IT dream team.
A cloud architect pulls together cloud resources to solve business requirements. The cloud architect not only envisions, strategizes and guides the cloud initiative and culture in an organization, but must also design, facilitate and lead cloud projects.
Read MoreWe are pleased to announce a new partnership between Visual Workforce and APS Team Solutions. APS Team Solutions develops business leaders and teams through relationship-based coaching and consulting, moving theory into everyday application.
Read MoreIn the digital age, required skill sets are constantly changing. You may be looking to upskill your current team or hire new talent to fill those skill gaps. Or maybe you’re looking to elevate your own skills and career. Whatever your goals, welcome to the IT Career Skills Series. In this 10 part series, we will breakdown the top skills for each role your need on your IT dream team.
We jokingly say “Pay no attention to that man (or woman) behind that curtain of data!” when really you should. Pull back that curtain and you will find a data engineer and that data engineer needs one gigantic bag of tricks.
Read MoreIn the digital age, required skill sets are constantly changing. You may be looking to upskill your current team or hire new talent to fill those skill gaps. Or maybe you’re looking to elevate your own skills and career. Whatever your goals, welcome to the IT Career Skills Series. In this 10 part series, we will breakdown the top skills for each role your need on your IT dream team.
DevOps Engineers are a hot commodity these days. Companies are rapidly adopting DevOps due to its benefits in speed, quality, and performance. And they need experts to lead the way. The DevOps Engineer role is one of the highest paying jobs in the world earning an average salary of over $121,000.
Read MoreWill Modern Businesses Meet The Same Fate As The Titanic?
The RMS Titanic was a modern marvel when it embarked on the doomed maiden voyage in 1912. Despite four decades of sea-faring experience, Captain E.J. Smith ignored seven warnings from his crew and other ships in the area confirming hazardous conditions In the time leading up to this journey.
Captain Smith shared, “I cannot imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder. I cannot conceive of any vital disaster happening to this vessel. Modern ship-building has gone beyond that.” We will never know all the factors that contributed to the decisions made that night; however, we do know that there was an undeniable level of complacency and misplaced confidence.
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