When the CEO says, “But I’m not a ‘people person’.”

June 18th, 2014

When talking with CEOs of businesses and non-profits, we sometimes hear, “Well, I’m not really a ‘people person’.” In my experience, what the CEO may really mean is one or more of the following:

“I’m an introvert.”
“This HR stuff doesn’t come naturally to me.”
“I’m not sure why HR is that important, other than for recruiting and […]

We Couldn’t Have Said it Better Ourselves: “Organizations need to mesh performance targets with Human Resources strategy”

June 11th, 2014

I came across an article this week in the Canadian newspaper, The Globe and Mail, titled, The new business normal: constant reinvention, by Rose Patten and Hugh Arnold, co-directors of the Rotman School of Management’s Strategic Human Resource Management Program at the University of Toronto. In it, the authors say:

Organizations need to mesh […]

Clients Say the Most Amazing Things: In Uncertain Times Your Customers Often Have the Answers

May 14th, 2014

From time to time, TPO posts first-hand C-Level business perspectives, excerpted from an ongoing series of conversations we have with our clients. This one is from an executive in the professional education market.

We are likely to continue in a rather uncertain environment. So the question is, how can a company be better prepared to succeed […]

Employee Policy Handbook – The Policies Every Company Should Have

April 23rd, 2014

A version of this article was originally prepared by TPO for one of its clients, an industry educational foundation.

How many times have you shuffled the development or refinement of an Employee Handbook to the bottom of your to-do list? You can leave it there—as long as you don’t have the need to:

Better Manage Your Employees

The […]