January 2026

What Employee Loyalty Looks Like Now

By |2025-10-09T11:44:28-04:00January 12, 2026|Stronger Than Yesterday, Culture of Retention, Culture Design, Corporate Culture|

The image of a long-serving employee receiving a gold watch for 25 years of unwavering service feels like a relic from another era. In today’s workplace, loyalty doesn’t hinge on tenure alone—and it certainly doesn’t thrive on blind commitment. Employees are no longer staying just to prove grit or because it’s the “right” thing to do. Instead, the most successful companies are rethinking loyalty altogether—creating workplaces that earn commitment by inspiring it.

Yes, the market has changed. […]

September 2025

Building a Culture of Ownership at Work

By |2025-04-08T16:17:36-04:00September 29, 2025|Corporate Culture|

As a leader, you’re responsible not only for developing your team’s skills but also for influencing how they approach their work. Training typically focuses on concrete capabilities—technical tools, software, and process-related know-how that contribute to clear job performance standards. While these are essential, training shouldn’t stop there. The most transformative organizations go a step further: they invest in shaping the mindset of their people.

Companies that nurture an ownership mindset—where individuals take initiative, contribute ideas, and feel […]

January 2024

Transitioning New Talent

By |2023-12-04T12:21:43-04:00January 22, 2024|Attracting and retaining top talent, Candidates, Training, Job Seeker Tips, Corporate Culture, TalentSphere, Embracing the Entitled, Advancement, Companies, Transitioning New Talent|

An effective search process consists of four steps – identification, attraction, evaluation, and successful acceptance of an offer. Whether your most recent hire came from an internal referral, an in-house recruitment team, or an executive search firm, knowing that a key role is filled can feel like a weight has been lifted from your shoulders. Your work here is done!

Or is it just getting started?

A study by The Wynhurst Group found that over 20% […]

March 2022

Deliberately Designing your Corporate Culture

By |2021-12-01T19:36:39-04:00March 7, 2022|Companies, Corporate Culture|

Over a career spanning nearly half a century, Harvard University psychology professor J. Richard Hackman garnered widespread esteem and accolades for pioneering the study of team dynamics. Following the events of 9/11, Hackman led a team designed to evaluate what makes intelligence units effective by surveying, interviewing, and observing hundreds of analysts across 64 different intelligence groups.

What they discovered was that the critical factor wasn’t having a tenured team with the right number of people. It wasn’t having a vision […]

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