Extreme downsizing is what management professor Wayne Cascio says companies engage in when they cut their workforce by more than 20 percent. To date, almost 40 percent of the United States's largest companies practiced extreme downsizing during the Great Recession. Down... More »

Human Capital , Senior Leaders & Executives

Human Performance Improvement , Jobs , Trends

2009 is one year that none of us will ever forget. We all had to shrink to squeeze through the eye of the storm, and we had to learn how to compete in a completely new game. Our competitors, we found, are no longer in our neighborhoods or on the other side of town. They... More »

Career Development , Human Capital , Senior Leaders & Executives , Workforce Development

Advanced Level Content , Business Impact , Career Planning , Human Performance Improvement , Integrated Talent Management , Leadership Development , Management Development , Measuring and Evaluating , Trends

As the federal government seeks to maximize resources amid mounting deficits, organizational change is a top priority. In the private sector, the slow economic recovery is forcing companies to reevaluate their current business practices and explore new approaches for en... More »

Human Capital , Senior Leaders & Executives , Workforce Development

Change Management , Human Performance Improvement , Training and Development - General

A financial institution realizes that no one cookie-cutter model exists for the perfect learning function. More »

Human Capital , Senior Leaders & Executives

Human Performance Improvement , Leadership Development , Managing the Learning Function

An interview with Geri Lopker, President, Geri Lopker & Associates More »

Human Capital , Senior Leaders & Executives

Coaching and Mentoring , Designing Learning , Human Performance Improvement , Leadership Development , Measuring and Evaluating