Incentive Alignment for HR-Driven Culture Change
Connect requested behaviors to evaluation and rewards
Leadership, Coaching & Succession
Succession planning, leadership development and executive coaching. How CHROs and talent leaders identify successors and which development programs paid off.
Manager Capacity and Adoption in HR Rollouts
Test capacity and routines, then measure the decisions
Middle Manager Resistance to HR Transformation
Understanding capacity, incentives, and decision rights
Support Caregivers, Support the Business
In August 2024, the Surgeon General issued a warning around the state of working parents in the US,” explained Sarah Olin. “Their research found that 41% of parents and c...
HR Leadership: From Selfless to Self-Care
Countless stories shared at Connex industry events demonstrate just how compassionate HR leaders can be, their deep empathy pushing them to go above and beyond in the ser...
Five Minutes With…Stacie Baird
Briefly explore the career, leadership strategies, and life lessons of a fellow HR innovator. Nearly half of employees worry that GenAI could negatively impact the nature...
Succession and the Talent Bench
Is Your Talent Pipeline Prepared?
How Culture Determines Whether Performance Management Works
Performance management is typically defined as the process of evaluating employee activity as a function of efficiently and effectively meeting organizational needs, but ...
Becoming an Employer of Choice
A decade’s long streak of growth finally came to an end, with the annual average engagement rate dropping 2% in both 2021 and 2022 according to Gallup.
Inside Connexion 2023
Expressed early in the first panel discussion, that statement helped kick off Connexion 2023 and fittingly set the tone for the sessions to come. These in-person discussi...
Five Minutes With...Rachael Kelly
Every performance management strategy hinges on having a psychologically safe environment where employer and employee alike are receptive to feedback, so how do you creat...
Using Intentionality to Transform the Management of Remote Teams
After Patrick Felder became Vice President of Employee Success at Salesforce in October 2020, he did not meet any of the business leaders that he works with, nor any othe...
Five Minutes With...Alice Yoo LeClair
In this article, we caught up with Alice Yoo LeClair, Divisional CHRO at Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC. From digital mentors to sapien evolution, Alice provides pl...
Leadership: It's What Happens in Vegas!
MGM Resorts International’s Corporate VPs of Human Resources and Talent Management share insight into the company’s evolution as a leader-led, employee centric organizati...
No One Is Just A Number
The idea of taking a critical lens to ranked performance management styles is nothing new. In fact, a quick Google search shows a wave of articles from 2015 discussing th...
Ken Blanchard on 40 Years of HR
Ken Blanchard was born in New Jersey and raised in New York. In 1982 he and his coauthor, Spencer Johnson, published the seminal management text The One Minute Manager, r...
Leading With Intentionality
The following is a companion article to the most recent episode of Connex’s ongoing Executive Insights Series, which is produced in partnership with the “Innovating Leade...
Joy at Work!
The following is a companion article to the most recent episode of Connex’s ongoing Executive Insights Series, which is produced in partnership with the “Innovating Leade...
To Get More Done, Work Less!
The following is a companion article to the most recent episode of Connex’s ongoing Executive Insights Series, which is produced in partnership with the “Innovating Leade...
The Power of Trauma-Informed Leadership
The following is a companion article to the most recent episode of Connex’s ongoing Executive Insights Series, which is produced in partnership with the “Innovating Leade...
Flexing for an Employee-Led Culture
To one degree or another, emerging from the height of the pandemic has been a test of cultural resilience and management flexibility for all businesses. Despite operation...
ICYMI: Connexion 2022
In case you missed it, we were excited and honored to put on our first in-person event since the initial lockdowns at Connexion 2022 down in sunny San Diego, CA. Running ...
Bringing Your Full Self to Work
It’s staggering to think about just how much time an average adult devotes to work, especially in recent years. Between labor shortages, business model changes, and the e...
The Great Reengagement
Connex Member Michelle Sanchez-Bickley sat down with Maureen Metcalf from Innovative Leadership to discuss these challenges, and in the process, shed light on a refreshin...
6 key insights for improving resilience, stress reduction and mental health support for healthcare staff
The momentum achieved early in the pandemic by positioning care professionals as “heroes” has since worn off, leaving a trail of stress, mental and emotional strain, and ...
Building a Practical and Sustainable Performance Competency Model
We were delighted to host a recent session on the subject of building a performance competency model. The session was led by Tony Callander, Chief Human Resources Officer...
How Leadership Has The Power To Unite And Inspire
As leaders, we have the opportunity and responsibility to help our employees and organizations transcend personal differences and better align with our organization's pur...
Playing to Win: Best Practices in Team Construction and Development
Introduction Team development has long represented an outsize challenge for leadership due to a range of factors, beginning with the fact that it is fundamentally difficu...
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Connect requested behaviors to evaluation and rewards
Test capacity and routines, then measure the decisions
Understanding capacity, incentives, and decision rights
In August 2024, the Surgeon General issued a warning around the state of working parents in the US,”...
Countless stories shared at Connex industry events demonstrate just how compassionate HR leaders can...
Briefly explore the career, leadership strategies, and life lessons of a fellow HR innovator. Nearly...
Is Your Talent Pipeline Prepared?
Performance management is typically defined as the process of evaluating employee activity as a func...
A decade’s long streak of growth finally came to an end, with the annual average engagement rate dro...
Expressed early in the first panel discussion, that statement helped kick off Connexion 2023 and fit...
Every performance management strategy hinges on having a psychologically safe environment where empl...
After Patrick Felder became Vice President of Employee Success at Salesforce in October 2020, he did...