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The new focus on human capital management and metrics, and the need to create a more tangible return on investment in people, is creating a new opportunity for CFOs to add value to their organizations. This EEA Zoom Show, set for Sept. 10 at 1 pm ET US, brings together panelists with extensive experience in finance to discuss the opportunities and challenges. ... [ read more ]

The survey finds that while board directors everywhere support these principles, there is even greater enthusiasm outside the US. The UK-based Diligent Institute provides publicly available research on global board governance.... [ read more ]

Created in 2009, the Enterprise Engagement Alliance's first formal learning and certification program on Enterprise Engagement, encompassing human capital management, measurement, ROI, and compliance will be adapted for chief financial officers (CFOs) and business leaders. The program will be offered in partnership with the Accountant-Lawyer Alliance (ALA), which provides continuing education courses and networking events to certified public accountants (CPAs) and attorneys nationwide. ... [ read more ]

Two recent contributors to the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance offer contrasting views on the Stakeholder Capitalism movement. One of those views, published in the New York Times, opposes Stakeholder Capitalism based on what the Enterprise Engagement Alliance believes to be a false definition. The other article in the Harvard Law School publication takes the opposite view that investors are demanding organizations to focus on purpose and culture. ... [ read more ]

COVID-19 has created new and unforeseen issues making employee engagement even more important than ever, assert the presenters of this HR.com webinar on Aug. 20 at 2 pm ET US. ... [ read more ]

The Enterprise Engagement Alliance strategic Zoom Show on Aug. 12 at 1 pm ET will focus on Business Operating Systems, an invaluable approach to running a better business of almost any size. The EEA tactical Zoom Show on Aug. 13 at 1 pm US, sponsored by the Brand Media Coalition, will cover the emerging concept of Brand Media, Experiences and Surprise and Delight in rewards, recognition, and gifting. ... [ read more ]

The EEA is creating the first formal learning and certification program on Human Capital Management, Measurement, Employee Engagement ROI, and Compliance for chief financial officers for CFO.University, a leading community for CFOs that will qualify CFO.University members for an EEA CFO certification and annual membership status. This new course at CFO.University is focused specifically on the needs of the CFOs seeking to understand the basic principles involved with managing, measuring, and reporting on all aspects of human capital and employee engagement. ... [ read more ]

BCAT, the brand alignment company, offers a free Enterprise Engagement widget that organizations can use to thumbnail the potential return on investment of increased engagement. The widget is free to any solution provider seeking to post the widget on their web sites. ... [ read more ]

Launching Aug. 13, 1 pm ET, these new practical monthly virtual education programs bring together organizational practitioners and expert solution providers to discuss process design and measurement in key areas of sales and non-sales employee, distribution partner, and customer engagement, followed by the stories of featured brands; the essence of their success, and how organizations can use those brand stories to better tell their own through incentive, recognition, loyalty, event, surprise and delight promotions and corporate amenities and experiences.... [ read more ]

Allan Steinmetz, CEO and founder of Inward Strategic Consulting, a pioneer in the concept of linking external and internal marketing and engagement, is tapped to oversee the Enterprise Engagement Alliance’s Brand Marketing certification program. ... [ read more ]

Matthew Della Croce; President Global and Corporate for Allison Partners; Satish Korde, a brand strategy consultant and formerly CEO of GTB, and Allan Steinmetz; CEO, Founder, Inward Consulting, will join EEA Zoom show host Bruce Bolger, Enterprise Engagement Alliance at TheEEA.org founder, on how the advertising and marketing field can adapt to the new focus on authenticity and purpose. ... [ read more ]

HR Metrics, a leading human capital management firm in Pakistan and central Asia, is conducting a worldwide survey of human capital management practices. Take the five-minute survey. ESM will publish the results as soon as they are available. ... [ read more ]

Adi Amin Adi, a senior HR professional with nearly 14 years of human resources management experience in various industries in Jordan, has achieved the ISO 30414 certification for human capital internal and external reporting. ... [ read more ]

Dave Ulrich, a leading HR innovator, believes that Covid-19 will only increase the CEO focus on human capital and engagement, but that HR will have to make a business case for people investments.... [ read more ]

Saqlain Sher, a senior HR professional with nearly 18 years of human resources management experience in Pakistan, Oman, and Abu Dhabi, has achieved the ISO 30414 certification for implementation of human capital internal and external reporting. ... [ read more ]

Probably no organization has dedicated itself more persistently to the cause of measuring the return on investment of human resources and other people investments than ROI Institute, which now has nearly 6,000 return-on-Investment certified professionals worldwide with an active pipeline of 2,000 people in the process. ... [ read more ]

The culture company Appreciation at Work has launched a new Virtual Appreciation at Work™ Training Kit specifically designed to make its training assets easily available in the new working conditions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.... [ read more ]

Why is a leading professor of finance at the London Business School a strong advocate for employee engagement? Because it’s better business, he says. That’s the premise of Alex Edman's new book, Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit, published in March by Cambridge University Press. Edmans will be a panelist in a series of upcoming EEA Zoom Shows... [ read more ]

Over the last two decades, hundreds of books have focused on leadership and culture, and many CEOs at companies of all sizes have hired coaches to help improve their management style. And yet, after 20 years or more of talk, probably no more than 20% of organizations have a strategic approach to culture management—i.e., a CE0-ld plan that drives a consensus-based brand promise, values, culture, and objectives through a formal process across the enterprise. The result—almost no change in customer and employee engagement. ... [ read more ]

A new SaaS-based platform is the first to help organizations benchmark profitability, liquidity, and key human capital metrics through a low-cost, easy-to-use platform designed to help improve business performance, value creation and decision-making related to financial operations and people management.... [ read more ]

A recognized company valuation expert and passionate advocate for accounting for human capital in business management joins the Enterprise Engagement Alliance's Executive Committee for Accounting and Metrics on a volunteer basis to help oversee development of an outreach effort and EEA curriculum program tailored for chief financial officers. ... [ read more ]

A 30-year veteran of the incentive, events, and engagement field with a special focus on Business Operating Systems and return-on-investment measures, Todd Hanson has launched Catalyst Performance Group to help organizations build more sustainably successful businesses with better stakeholder experiences. Bruce Bolger, Founder of the Enterprise Engagement Alliance, serves as an Executive Advisor.... [ read more ]

A pioneer in connecting customer and employee engagement, Allan Steinmetz, Founder of Inward Strategic Consulting, prescribes a strategic and systematic approach to establishing a new normal within your organization. ... [ read more ]

A recent Harvard Business School paper finds more evidence that companies focused on people outperform their competitors, even during market downturns.... [ read more ]

Believe or not, performance improvement and engagement strategies are required of federal agencies under the Government Performance and Results (GPRA) Modernization Act of 2010. The challenge, according to Mike Anderson, formal Chief Human Capital Officer for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, is that too many departments just check off the box. A government HR expert prescribes a combination of performance management and employee engagement rarely employed in free enterprise either. ... [ read more ]