Lisa Russell

Your company has outgrown your early-stage team. Now what? Too many CEOs wait too long to act—hurting their business *and* the people who helped build it. In this piece for Lead Grow Develop, I explore how CEOs can lead through growth with clarity and compassion—recognizing when talent needs shift, and navigating transitions with dignity. 🔑 Key takeaways: - Create a short-term strategic roadmap to clarify the talent needed now - Make coaching your managers' #1 metric - Normalize role transitions as part of growth—not failure - Communicate early and often, especially when the company is changing faster than people can 🧭 At Hazan Consulting, we help growth-stage executives align talent to strategy—fast. 📖 Read the full article here → https://loom.ly/ekVmkqk 💬 Let’s talk if you're navigating a team or company stage evolution. #Leadership #CEOInsights #TalentStrategy #HazanConsulting #GrowthLeadership

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This programming has been essential to our equity work at Security Compass. We reviewed many of our processes using this simple framework and made changes to break down unintended barriers for marginalized groups. Results have been fabulous, including improved belonging sentiment amongst employees, equitable promotion rates and more. Highly recommend!

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We just shared a new video over on our YouTube channel 👏 Rachel Burrows, B.A. from the team walks through how Workzoom’s Organization Module works and how it helps bring structure, accuracy, and automation to your HR setup. If your team is still dealing with disconnected job titles, scattered department data, or reporting lines that do not match how people actually work, this walkthrough is for you. In this walkthrough, you’ll see how to: 1. Create and manage job profiles, departments, work sites, and worker classes 2. Organize sub-teams using rollups and keep everything tied to the right part of your org 3. Auto-fill job details like department and work site when hiring or posting jobs 4. Track position vacancies in real time using FTE rules and staffing budgets 5. Assign managers to jobs or departments so reporting lines stay consistent 6. Store job evaluations directly on roles for better clarity and alignment 7. Visualize your structure using built-in job, department, and management hierarchy reports This module is included with every Workzoom HR setup and is designed to help you move away from spreadsheets and manual workarounds. It brings all your organizational data into one connected system so your teams can make decisions with clarity and confidence. Watch the walkthrough here ⤵️ https://lnkd.in/gbrnfHKV #Workzoom #HRIS #HRSoftware #FTETracking #JobProfiles #WorkforcePlanning #HCM

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🌍 The Foundation Is Moving. Is Your Hiring Strategy Adaptive or Static? 🚀 Founders and TA leaders across the US are feeling that the ground has shifted. This isn’t incremental change. It’s a structural rewrite of how work, talent, and value are created. Here’s what we’re seeing firsthand in the hiring market: 🔹 AI has replaced labor arbitrage — productivity now comes from intelligence, not headcount 🔹 Traditional hiring models are breaking — slow, rigid, and overbuilt for a fast market 🔹 The talent market has split — adaptive recruiters + candidates are outperforming static job-bound models 🔹 Speed + clarity now beat scale — the winners synthesize, execute, and iterate faster 🔹 Sensemaking is scarce — clients don’t need more resumes; they need a better signal. This is why RPO can no longer be a purely transactional approach. At SKILLECTS, we’ve redesigned RPO for the Expertise-on-Demand era: ✔ AI-enabled, domain-trained recruiters ✔ Plug-and-play offshore recruiter seats (no long ramp, no overhead) ✔ Output-driven SLAs (submissions, interviews, offers—not hours) ✔ Proven ROI in ≤90 days, with risk-free pilots The question for 2026 isn’t “Who can we hire?”. It’s “How fast can we adapt our hiring engine to the new reality?” If your recruiting foundation still belongs to the Industrial Era, it may be time to rebuild before market forces compel you to do so. 📩 Let’s talk if you’re ready to move from static hiring to adaptive talent execution. #FutureOfWork #RPO #AdaptiveHiring #AIEra #TalentStrategy #USStaffing #Leadership #DigitalTransformation #SKILLECTS #TechTrends2026

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If your company's team building exercises are so cutthroat that payoffs are involved...you might be doing it wrong. This week on The New Talent Playbook Podcast, David Goldstein, Founder of TeamBonding, shares with us how the right team building exercises can unlock better collaboration, improve alignment, and create the kind of team chemistry that shows up in day-to-day performance. Catch the episode to hear David Goldstein share with Rob Levin: ✔️ Why the “trust falls” era of team building is long gone ✔️ How the power of play strengthens culture and retention ✔️ The biggest mistakes companies make when planning team events ✔️ How to integrate remote and international team members so they truly feel included If building a stronger, more connected team is on your 2026 agenda, you’ll want to hear this conversation. Don’t miss this week's episode of 🎙️ The New Talent Playbook Podcast: “Beyond Trust Falls: Team Building with the Power of Play” 🎧 Search for it on your favorite podcast platform. #podcast #newtalentplaybook #leadership #teambuilding

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New Fireside Chat just dropped! Today's guest is Rebecca Monet, Behavioral Scientist and Founder of Zorakle Profiles. An opportunity to learn more about the data behind today’s workforce: 🎯 What’s changing 🎯 What it means for hiring and retention 🎯 How leaders can use these insights to better engage their teams ... and more! Listen to the complete session on your commute, your walk, or while stress-folding laundry. We’re wherever you are: YouTube: https://lnkd.in/gATRUFEy Spotify: https://lnkd.in/gH34NM-k Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/gAb93DKw

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If you’re a People & Talent leader, you already know how quickly the workplace is evolving. Staying ahead means keeping a close eye on the latest trends and data shaping our field. Lattice's 2026 State of People Strategy Report is packed with insights every HR leader should have on their radar for the year ahead. The report highlights: 🌟 How HR teams are approaching AI 🌟 The future of performance management 🌟 Navigating polarization in the workplace 🌟 Priorities from 1,000+ HR leaders worldwide It’s a must-read for anyone shaping people strategy in 2026. 👉 Read the full report here: https://lnkd.in/ee9QKkWj

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The best tech in TA isn’t built in a vacuum. It’s co-created. Strategic partnerships in talent acquisition can mean the difference between incremental improvement and real transformation. But too often, partnerships still look like traditional vendor-client relationships dressed up in new language. So what does true co-creation actually look like? My guests on Episode 760 of Recruiting Future were Simon Bishop, Head of Talent Acquisition at SoftwareOne, and Ritu Mohanka, CEO at VONQ. Their partnership spans employer branding, recruitment marketing, and agentic AI implementation, all while navigating the complex challenge of integrating two TA functions post-acquisition. SoftwareOne played a development partner role in the launch of VONQ’s agentic AI platform, EQO, helping shape the product through real-world feedback and collaboration. We discuss: • How the partnership evolved over time • Employer brand building in competitive markets • Multi-channel, brand-led recruitment marketing • Piloting and deploying agentic AI • Transparency, explainability, and adoption • Candidate reactions to AI screening • Managing TA through acquisition and integration • What the future of TA could look like 🎧 Listen by searching Recruiting Future wherever you get your podcasts

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Diversiology.IO Just Dropped This At Diversiology, we’ve seen too many DEI practitioners carrying big responsibilities without the resources to match. So, we created the DEI Resource Alignment Playbook. Not to ask for more—but to help us name the gaps, make the work visible, and lead responsibly. Because inclusion is a business priority—and it should be resourced like one. 👇 Feel free to check it out. #DEI #Diversiology #Inclusion #Leadership #Impact

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