The times they are a-changin’. Yessiree, Bob! At this crossroads, things are getting awfully interesting. The way we define our world is evolving – everything from how we describe our faith to what we think about work. People question authority figures more than ever. Political structures, human relations, and economic models are shifting. The nature of information is changing. Indeed, every traditional definition is up for discussion. And, most importantly to our lot, HR and OD are in great flux. This is why we created Whirling Chief, where our own people, our community, can share, learn, and inspire one another….

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‘Operational Excellence’ has been a big debate topic over the years, and continues to be. With the birth and evolution of our function, many of our senior colleagues and respected professors have introduced models organizations can (and should!) consider for their HR support function to be seen as ‘strategic’. As discussed in earlier blogs, being ‘strategic,’ by definition, requires one to be able to focus on short- and long-term results at the same time, while keeping an eye on the vision. This requires us to have some level of process excellence in-house. That’s a fact. That said, I cannot count…

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Good Morning Everyone, As promised during our introduction on Monday, we share with you a short video of us speaking with the founders of TAD® – Think.Act.Deliver, a strategy execution tool/ suite. We asked Carol Bubar, Director of Corporate Strategy and Bruno Lecoq, Chief Operating Officer for adaQuest, Inc. about strategy, why they saw a need for a product in the market, what differentiates TAD from competition, about the use and application. I am sorry to report we also had a lot of fun behind the scenes and had to cut it to make sure the video is short enough for your consumption. 🙂 We hope…

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Earlier this year, I wrote an article on LinkedIn regarding a new strategy execution tool we partnered to build with a mid-size technology firm in Seattle. The tool is called TAD® – Think.Act.Deliver. It’s a suite offering methodology, software, and consulting services, and built on a 3 step proven methodology business leaders and consultants can leverage to successfully design and implement all elements of a company’s strategy. TAD is designed by expert process engineers, who have vast industry experience in various technology firms (such as HP, Microsoft, and Boeing). TAD recognizes and tries to solve for many common challenges we…

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Happy Friday All! Today, we are featuring a new video, sharing some non-technical quick tips for first time managers. Whether we take part in a small or large organization, we tend to know managers play a critical role in shaping employee’s everyday reality. What we don’t discuss much is how impactful of an opportunity this is to take part in and shape someone else’s development. Effective managers help build successful leaders and healthy organizations. It is vital we take the time necessary to invest in our managers, to educate and coach them around what it really means to be a manager. By the virtue of this post, we would like…

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I was teaching a group of senior HR Executives at a top management school in India recently. Though our topic was ‘leveraging digital technology for business transformations,’ as we were discussing challenges about driving strategy in HR, we shifted to a lengthy conversation on analytics. What does it mean for HR to have KPIs? How can we better quantify the outcome of our work? Should we be measuring our work in all aspects? Or else what should we build metrics against, etc.? The truth is we need to start liking analytics. I know it’s easier for some of us to…

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Strategy. Boy, is that a powerful word. There are a million books written on strategy – how to think strategically, how to lead strategically, how to turn HR into strategic partners, etc. And yet, somehow, according to studies of Norton & Kaplan, only 30% of companies really understand strategy. Curious. What is it we’re doing (or not) that’s leading us to be strategic or nonstrategic? In our function of HR, we have seen immense growth over the last 25 years. What started as an administrative function, powered by the demands of unions and welfare around the world, has become a…

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Want to produce better results?  Well get interested in how people see the world. In this 3 min video, one of our key contributors, Simon Marshall from WhyNotPartnering explains a simple model that can be used to release new performance.  Get interested in how you ’see’ the world and who you relate to it.  As he says, ‘we don’t describe the world we see, we see the world we describe’, so we might as well describe a positive and optimistic one!

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I am honored to have been invited to share some of my key learnings from more than 20 years working in the areas of organizational, team and leadership development. Let me introduce myself: Ever since I was a teenager and was drawn to the business world, my main questions have always been: Who am I, what is my potential, why am I here, and how can I best contribute? With those questions I started my journey. IS THAT IT? Completed my education, worked, and became a mother and housewife. Went to India, lived and worked in a traditional Indian ashram for…

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I must admit I don’t have an answer to today’s post, nor do I have a goal to reach one. It is a topic, however, that merely consumes my every waking thought. Let me try to explain… I had this one job with an employee who was so eager to succeed. (Let’s call this employee “Andy.”) Andy worked endless hours and made what seemed like the silliest mistakes—I chalked it up to lack of sleep, as he was very smart and extremely capable—and he lost weight daily. After observing this for several months, I shared my concern with Andy. All…

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