Recently I was asked to speak at a Employer Branding conference in Copenhagen. So what is Employer Branding, and what is my take on it?
The basic idea is that companies are competing for top talents, and therefore organizations need to brand them selves to existing employees and future candidates. The concept has spread across industries [...]
Social tools and mobile devices can enrich our lives and help us organize ourselves in better ways.
But one – often overlooked – aspect of the new media reality is the steep increase in distractions and alerts. Calendar alerts. Email alerts. Social network alerts. App alerts. Task management tool alerts. SMS reminders. And so on…
Science tells us [...]
Many articles and books have been written on organizational culture and culture change. On of my favourites is Joanne Martins classic three perspectives which proposes three complimentary views – integration, differentation and fragmentation.
Although it has been demonstrated by Martin and others that organizational culture is something fluid and ambiguous, most management advisors and consulting firms continue [...]
I recently did a lecture on Social Change at Copenhagen Business School (video #in Danish). Below is a short summary of the lecture
1) Existing models of change management are outdated and have proven inefficient:
The top-down transformational model is based on erroneous assumptions – that the executive management team has full information about the external environment, [...]
I am currently tutoring a master thesis on HR Shared Services based on a case story from the public sector. The implementation has had a lot of challenges, including communication problems between the SLA owners and the Shared Services Center, stressed out business partners and duplicate HR administration growing in the corners.
Why is it, that [...]
MAN Diesel in Frederikshavn recently annnounced the need to lay off 400 employees. The factory was named employer of the year 2006 by a leading professional organization, something that attracted special attention to how the company would handle the situation. And MAN Diesel certainly stood up to the challenge. The company engaged in a true [...]
My friend and former colleague Jon Michelsen has recently started his own coaching practice. I met with him this afternoon to catch up. However, the informal chat soon progressed in to a five star coaching session. I was impressed by his ability to identify development needs and provide pragmatic solutions. Highly recommendable!
It is time
Time to skip all the buzz words and lies
Time to throw out useless consultants and replace them with real people
Time to treat employees with the respect they deserve as human beings
I am talking about “change management”, one of the key consulting buzz words of the 1980s and 1990s that refuses to go away
It [...]
As explained in previous posts, corporations and organizations that choose to outsource or organize across geographically separated units face a lot of risks related to communication, coordination and leadership.
The question is, can we leverage some of the dynamics of self-organizing networks or natural born virtual organizations to compensate for the lack of organizational glue?
I believe [...]
