by Denise Cooper | Jul 12, 2018 | Blog
I big portion of my work involves teaching really talented and high performing black women how to navigate personal challenges while working for corporations.Over the last couple of years, we’ve all seen an increase in the number of stories about the perils of living...
by Denise Cooper | Oct 16, 2017 | Blog
Well it’s nearly time for the annual feedback dance between employees and their supervisors. I, like many others dedicated to #remakingHR and #disruptingHR have written, ranted and spoke on the subject of the “broken performance review process”. And yet it still...
by Denise Cooper | Sep 1, 2016 | Blog, Leadership
If your business is down- blame the boss? HR pros talk a lot about employee engagement and alignment. Management talks about revenue growth, market share, profitability and customer satisfaction. Just from these two sentences you can see these are two ships passing...
by Denise Cooper | Sep 1, 2016 | Blog, Leadership
Are you shocked I said it! Well, think how I felt when I got a call from an operations director and her opening statement was “Coaching doesn’t work! I’ve tried coaching my ops manager for six weeks and her performance still hasn’t improved.” We continued to talk...
by Denise Cooper | Aug 20, 2016 | Blog, Leadership
Gosh! Can you believe it? It’s August and that means we’re nearly three quarters of the way through 2016. So how are you doing on those business goals? When I was the head of HR, it was a strategic imperative to hire people with A- personalities. You know them. ...
by Denise Cooper | Mar 20, 2016 | Blog, Leadership
Below is part of a session where John C. Maxwell Discusses “The Five Levels of Leadership” Enjoy…