Working Remotely: 4 Tips for Help Assessing Your Remote Management Teams
A lot has been said about better enabling and better managing remote work for organizations. However, little has been said about assessing management’s new role as remote leaders. Remote work is new territory for a lot of businesses, and it makes sense that the...
Talent Assessment: A Better Way to Accurately Fill Positions and Review Performance Post-Covid
Hiring and assessing performance remotely, the somewhat new frontier. With technology attempting to bridge the gaps face-to-face interviews and performance reviews are leaving, the answer might seem as simple as buying and implementing a piece of software to do the...
The World and Workplace Have Changed: How to Better Manage the People Side of Risk
No change can take place without people. However, the world and workplace have changed, and continue to change unpredictably—so how are organizations supposed to successfully manage the risk associated with the people side of change? The first step is understanding...
Diversity in the Workplace: Using Current Events to Fuel Organizational Change and Improvement
Inclusivity and diversity is a topic no longer shied away from in the news. Similarly, it should no longer be shied away from in business. In addition to recent studies showing that profitability is directly linked to an organization’s level of diversity,...
The World Has Changed. What Comes Next?
So many people I’ve spoken to are avoiding the news, some to the point of staying away from social media as well. Too much happening, too many opinions, too much change. We’re now living in a world where, for some of us, our homes have become ours or our family’s...
No Looking Back: How to Deal with Rapid Workplace Change
It’s March and this has already been an unpredictable year. The global crisis we’re experiencing has rapidly changed the way we live and work, and some of those changes are bound to be permanent. At the very least they will have a long-lasting effect on the way things...
The Not-So-Bitter Pill: A Guide to Business Transformations
Ever tried something you expected to taste awful and then been surprised to find it wasn’t bad at all? That’s the reaction I get when I try and explain to a colleague or a client what business transformations are and are not about. Whatever you’ve heard or been lead...
The Math, the Psychology and the Elephant in the Room: Understanding Change Management
The Elephant in the Room If you’re a “give me the bad news first” person, read on. If not, skip the next sentence and revert back accordingly. Studies show that 50% of people are resistant to change. Want the good news? Implementing change and namely getting everyone...
What Did We Expect Would Happen in 2019?
Another great year draws to a close and it’s that time when the internet is full of “best of 2019” lists and “year in review” articles, so let’s jump on that bandwagon and talk a little about what we at Watershed CI have seen during the year. My usual caveat applies,...