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Adopting Continuous Conversations at Newport Group

Reflektive

Newport Group helps companies offer their employees a more secure financial future through retirement plans, insurance, and consulting services. Below is our Q&A with Jackie Ward, CHRO at Newport Group, about how they transitioned from an annual look-back on performance and to more continuous conversations.

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Innovation Is a Group Sport

ATD Human Capital

But the reality is that great innovation, just like great improvisation, happens in groups. In my new book, Go With It: Embrace the Unexpected to Drive Change , I look at how applying improvisation to innovation and change management leads to better outcomes. We need to realign our misconceptions about innovation.

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M&A Friday! This Week’s HR Deals

Advos

Carlton Group Receives Investment from H.I.G. PE-backed Prosci acquires Being Human, a change management services firm. 4, 2017 Including Best Practices in Training Veterans, Mobile Recruiting, and More. Sign-up for our weekly Hot in HR newsletter to get these updates via email. This week’s Fundings: $5M+.

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Top 10 Employee Engagement Blog Posts of 2017

Maritz Motivation

2017 has come and (is almost) gone — so it’s time to take stock in where we’ve been this year in employee engagement. As we reflect back, we wanted to share ten of our favorite blog posts from 2017: 10 Employee Engagement Blog Posts You Need to Read from 2017. #1.

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7 Ways to Cut Group Benefits Costs

Collage

Group benefits have never been more important to employees. At the same time, Canadian health care costs are rising even higher in 2017. Should they continue to offer group benefits knowing the costs will only increase? Should they continue to offer group benefits knowing the costs will only increase?

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Prudential's Sekhar Ramaswamy: A Counter-Cultural Approach to Culture Change

i4cp

This meant throwing out the traditional HR change management playbook. We also established a group of non-HR leaders who represented each of our businesses and functions and were charged with aspects of implementation in their organizations. It also has meant getting better at working across HR disciplines.

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Prudential's Chief Talent Officer Sekhar Ramaswamy Joins the i4cp 2017 Conference

i4cp

This meant throwing out the traditional HR change management playbook. We're excited to announce that we've enlisted Prudential's Chief Talent Officer, Sekhar Ramaswamy, to share his story at the i4cp 2017 Conference: Next Practices Now (March 20 - 23). Sign up now (group rates also available).