The Importance of Leadership Strategy Training
How search consultants and talent acquisition specialists strengthen their capacity to add greater value to their clients, firm and career through leadership strategy training.
Adaptive Leaders, Culture & Strategy
How Organizations Can Get It Right for a New Age of Business To support leaders in their talent and organizational strategy in the year ahead, AESC and its members surveyed nearly 1,000 C-level executives around the world to understand how leaders are collectively thinking about critical business issues. From upskilling executive competencies for a post-pandemic environment to a strong focus on DEI, to stakeholder capitalism’s impact on leadership and digital transformation in the wake of COVID, what is certain is what worked for businesses before the pandemic will no longer work going forward. Download the Full Report 3 Key Highlights from the Report: Adaptability has risen to the top as a critical leadership strength, combined with agility. Half of the organizations around the globe are not ready to lead change in key business areas such as sustainability and DEI. Two-thirds of organizations are prioritizing sustainability but less than half measure or report sustainability metrics. Gain Key C-level Insights Including: The Top 10 Leadership Competencies for a Post-Pandemic Business Environment How Executives Rate Their Organization’s Readiness to Lead Change Top 5 Reasons Executives Believe Organizations Still Struggle with Gender Equality Top 10 Aspects of Organizational Culture Executives Most Want to Improve [...]
How to Establish a Customer-First-Without-Compromise Strategy
Customer experience guru Steven Van Bellegham shares how to create a customer-first-without-compromise mindset within your organization.
People Analytics: A Conversation with Accenture’s Colin Anderson
Accenture’s Colin Anderson explores the importance of leveraging people analytics to find the best hires.
What Is an Executive Search Firm?
An executive search firm is an organization that specializes in placing highly qualified candidates in executive-level positions, dramatically reducing the possibility of a bad hire.
How Executives Are Embracing Career Change During COVID
This interview with BlueSteps Director of Executive Career Services Simeon Wong shares how today's executives are thinking about career change in the wake of COVID-19.
Why Accessibility Should be in Your Company D&I Strategy
Cluen, a provider of executive search software, shares why accessibility should be in any organization's diversity & inclusion (D&I) strategy
15 Considerations for Family Businesses in Transition
This article shares top considerations for family businesses in transition, from executive talent strategy to digitalization.
Inclusion in a post-COVID Workplace
Among the lessons of COVID-19 is the knowledge that human beings and our organizations can adapt more quickly and completely than we ever imagined. No one could have predicted how fast and how effectively office workers would adapt to remote work, or how nimbly business models would change. Health care, food service, education, entertainment, manufacturing and more evolved on the spot. COVID proved that the inability to adapt can be catastrophic. It also proved that we can change, if we want to. Going forward, how can C-level executives best ensure cultures of inclusion in the post-COVID workplace, and in turn, best attract and retain top talent? REFRESHER COURSE: Inclusion by the Numbers Thought leaders, executives, government entities and researchers have published, persuaded and pleaded the clear case for inclusion. Change has been slow despite the data-driven case for inclusion, but the numbers speak for themselves: INCLUSION AND THE WAR FOR TALENT In the ongoing competition for top talent, inclusive workplaces have a quantifiable advantage. July 2020 research from McKinsey found that 39% of all respondents say they have turned down or decided not to pursue a job because of a perceived lack of inclusion. Next-Gen talent is significantly more likely [...]
Security in the Hybrid Workplace
The transition to remote work in 2020 has driven technology adoption at an unprecedented pace. Online events, teleconferencing, and virtual meetings quickly became the standard. “Zoom” entered the vernacular seemingly overnight. At virtual happy hours, conversations swirled around whether Microsoft Teams or Slack was the better collaboration tool. Necessity became the mother of adoption. The threats This transition was also the mother of opportunity for cyber criminals and threat actors worldwide. The security implications for remote and hybrid work are immense, in which new vulnerabilities are met by an evolution in the threat arena. 1. Outside the Wall As the threat of COVID-19 became understood in early 2020, the first priority for organizations was business continuity: keeping employees and customers safe, shifting to remote work, deploying new collaboration tools, and building ecommerce capabilities. As vast numbers of workers left the security of their employers’ firewalls, technology leaders had to act quickly to improve endpoint security. Employees’ home networks are more vulnerable, and it is challenging to ensure that all security patches and updates are installed on employees’ home networks and devices. 2. Peak Volume Online shopping, virtual engagement tools, social media-supported food delivery and a jump in IoT (Internet of [...]
