Automating Your Business Is Like Pulling Teeth. How Companies And Employees Can Avoid The Pain.
Adopting new technologies to improve customer satisfaction and the bottom line seems like a no-brainer. Behind the scenes, workers are ill-prepared.
5 Ways COVID Made You a Better Leader
As we slowly emerge from COVID 19, most organizations are struggling to hire, retain, and motivate their workforce. Many employees are burnt out, demotivated, and planning to quit.
Strong leaders can make a big difference. You have learned five critical leadership lessons during the pandemic.
The Staggering Costs of Exclusion – a Motivator for More Vigorous Inclusion?
Inclusion, the active process of incorporating people into the organization and society and giving them a sense of belonging, has taken center stage as a primary means of implementing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in society and business. The benefits of inclusion are impressive.
Without Inclusion, Diversity is Unsustainable
On March 5, 2018, Google searches for "Inclusion" spiked to 3 times the national average since 2010. Frances McDormand's speech at the Academy Awards advocating for labor contracts requiring more inclusive employment in the movie industry caused the increased interest. Ironically, it took a Hollywood personality to draw that much attention to inclusion and only briefly.
Technology’s Impact on “The Future of Work”
Haig R. Nalbantian, the dean of Workforce Science, discusses about the role of Technology in workforce strategy and management. Including the implications on recruiting and social networks.
In Loco Parentis: Adjusting the Starting Line for America’s Students
At the lowest end of the socio-economic scale we fail to prepare kids for meaningful employment. The problem is at least partially rooted in an unstable family structure that lacks the presence and support of a second parent. Can schools realistically overcome the high degree of difficulties of the low end of the scale?
Stick Your Landing on the New Normal
COVID-19 flipped our world. We were confused, afraid, suffered, adapted – and learned a lot about ourselves and others. As we get ready to plant our feet in the new normal, there is time to prepare for our landing in a changed world. Here are a few items to include on your re-entry checklist.
Workforce Analytics: Career Equity is essential to eliminate the Gender Pay Gap
Haig R. Nalbantian, the dean of Workforce Science, discusses how to address career opportunity and the gender pay gap as part of a Sustaining Foundation for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.…
3 Ways to Boost Your Career in Virtual Meetings
Consider the ways that COVID can boost your visibility, impact, and career. Virtual meetings provide many often-overlooked opportunities. Employees have struggled to adapt to working from home with social isolation…
We need a Personal Information Bill of Rights
Prometheus Endeavor believes our current combination of practices, laws and accepted norms is out of balance. This is especially true when it comes to knowledge about us: who knows what about us, collectively and individually, how that knowledge is used, how it affects us, and how we live our lives. This balance needs to be restored. We need a new We need a new Personal Information Bill of Rights.
Workforce Analytics: The Power of Interdisciplinary Teams with Haig Nalbantian
We’re roughly half and half economists and organizational psychologists with a sprinkling of data scientists, statisticians, and a few other eclectic disciplines in the mix.
We’re all about complementarities in skills and experience. We’ll examine modeling results from case data applying the interpretative lens of our different disciplines.
Senior Citizens’ 2020 — Some Good News in a Bad Year
Caregivers, science, and technology bring a ray of sunshine for the elderly in a bad year. 2020 has been one of the most challenging years for humanity since the start…