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What separates the good candidates from the great? Is it character, skill or personality?  Do you hire for character and train for skill, or do you hire for certain skills and hope for great character? These questions can generate several different responses depending on who you ask. When …Read More >

Whether you’re an executive, director or manager, recent studies have shown that it’s becoming more and more common to spend at least 40 percent of the workweek in meetings — leaving little time to actually get things done. With these conditions, how are organizations making progress? Most of …Read More >

Over the years, businesses have used numerous tools and techniques to achieve rapid change (i.e., Kaizen events). These techniques have typically focused on resolving specific manufacturing or business issues and taken place over a five-day period or more. However, in today’s fast-paced world, shutting down for an …Read More >

Talent Wars | You identify a critical resource need. A requisition is prepared and submitted. The recruiting and hiring process begins. Perhaps six weeks later — if all goes well — your offer for employment is accepted and you have a new employee! Meanwhile, tasks for the new …Read More >

The role of a marketing professional has become significantly more complicated in recent years. Whether it’s learning, monitoring and leveraging the latest onslaught of social networking sites entering the marketplace (e.g., Tumblr, Reddit and Pinterest), developing synergistic campaigns / programs  that connect with the narrowest …Read More >

On behalf of the entire Kaufman Global team, I am excited to debut the new version of our KeyNotes e-newsletter. We hope you find the content to be timely and value-added as you drive change initiatives and cultural transformations throughout your organization.

The theme of this newsletter is RECOVERY. While …Read More >

There are two primary dimensions of managing your human capital―Strategic and Administrative. These same components also play an important role in Lean Transformation where skilled “people involvement” before, during and then ongoing can make a huge difference.

It’s common for organizations to begin their Lean journeys focusing on production, …Read More >