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What is the Key to Upskilling? Mentoring!

What is the Key to Upskilling? Mentoring!

How do you build a culture where employees want to stay and grow? Start with mentorship.

In our latest blog, Technologent CEO Tammy Cooper shares the journey of launching a powerful mentorship program that’s done more than upskill employees—it’s created real connection, fostered career paths, and become a game-changer for retention and engagement.

From a small pilot to a company-wide initiative, Tammy’s story is a blueprint for any HR leader looking to elevate culture, strengthen internal networks, and build a future-ready workforce.

IN THE MEDIABrenan GermanApril 22, 2025Bright Talent

The Power Of Purpose

The Power Of Purpose

I frequently meet with HR and talent acquisition leaders across a spectrum of company sizes and industries. What I am observing in the job market is the realization of a multi-generational workforce. It is a fascinating study in sociology that validates much of the science of generational studies and the differences between generations.

IN THE MEDIABrenan GermanApril 1, 2025Bright Talent

What's Keeping HR Up At Night?

What's Keeping HR Up At Night?

Check out these important insights for HR leaders in this great piece published by HR Executive. Our very own Brenan German was quoted for this article, on subjects as diverse as AI for HR and how HR managers can work more successfully with other business leaders to garner more budget for their departments.

IN THE MEDIABrenan GermanMarch 24, 2025Bright Talent

Organizational Resilience – Buzzword or Competitive Strategy?

Organizational Resilience – Buzzword or Competitive Strategy? 

Building Resilient Organizations: A Conversation with Lamya Alaoui

Organizational resilience is about more than just surviving during hard times, it's about flourishing in the face of adversity, transforming challenges into opportunities and carving out a path to enduring success. This perspective, shared by Lamya Alaoui, a multifaceted executive with extensive experience leading organizational transformation, was the inspiration for lively conversation with Brenan German of Bright Talent. Together they explored perspectives on how organizations can build resilience and how HR leaders can make the business case to C-level execs for investing in organizational resilience as a competitive strategy.

IN THE MEDIABrenan GermanMarch 12, 2025Bright Talent

Thoughts on Ulrich’s Article – human capability delivering value

Thoughts on Ulrich’s Article – human capability delivering value

Dave Ulrich often talks about the tension and paradox between people practices and business expectations. After reading his article on the “Past, Present, and Future of Human Capability: Delivering Value to All Stakeholders” a paradox and tension emerged between human ingenuity and adaptation.

IN THE MEDIABrenan GermanFebruary 27, 2025Bright Talent

Workplace Challenges & Engagement: My Thoughts on Two Key Articles

Workplace Challenges & Engagement: My Thoughts on Two Key Articles

As a Gallup alum, I am a fan of the organization and frequently share their articles, which I find very insightful. Ben Wigert, Ph.D, MBA and Ryan Pendell of Gallup recently published an important article on the seven workplace challenges for 2025 that is worth reading. It speaks to the importance of employee engagement, which is at historic lows.

IN THE MEDIABrenan GermanFebruary 20, 2025Bright Talent

Thoughts on Bersin's HBR Article re. Boost Your Teams Productivity by Hiring Force Multipliers

Thoughts on Bersin's HBR Article re. Boost Your Teams Productivity by Hiring Force Multipliers

HR Leaders, in this Harvard Business Review article by Josh Bersin, he highlights the great success of Netflix as a company that continuously evolves and outperforms most industry standards while continually hiring and retaining top talent.

IN THE MEDIABrenan GermanDecember 23, 2024Bright Talent

Winning HR Budget Approval: Let’s Talk To The CFO

Winning HR Budget Approval: Let’s Talk To The CFO

Budget season can be a time of strategic hope – and frustration – for HR leaders as the “new vision” evaporates, pass after pass, into a boiled down version of the same old budget with the same old limitations. It doesn’t have to be this way.

The secret to budget success is practical and doesn’t just take place during budget season.

IN THE MEDIABrenan GermanJuly 26, 2024Bright Talent

Pay transparency – for better or for worse?

Pay transparency – for better or for worse?

How to build a pay transparency foundation and integrate it into your culture.

While we’d be excused for thinking terms like “gender-wage gap”, “pay gap”, “equal pay” and “glass ceiling” are modern concepts – focused on the disparate treatment women and historically under-represented groups experience in the workplace – political activism focused on addressing these inequities date back to at least the 1860’s.

Read the Q&A with Michael Kestenbaum, Managing Director with Gallagher’s Executive Compensation practice to learn some best practices for developing, implementing and managing pay transparency in an organization.

IN THE MEDIABrenan GermanJuly 9, 2024Bright Talent

Challenged to Get HR Budget Approved? Let’s talk to the CFO

Challenged to Get HR Budget Approved? Let’s talk to the CFO

Budgeting. For HR leaders it’s a time of hope and, too often, frustration. Learning to speak the right language and building an ongoing relationship with your organization’s finance leaders can pave the way to HR budgeting success. We sat down with a veteran CFO to find out more.

Read the Q&A with Michael Rodriguez, Clinical Assistant Professor of Accounting at Baylor University, Business Advisor, and former CFO for organizations such as Magnolia and Clarient (a GE Healthcare company) to learn some best practices.

IN THE MEDIABrenan GermanApril 1, 2024Bright Talent

Want To Win The Fierce Competition For Talent? Live Up To Your Marketing

Want To Win The Fierce Competition For Talent? Live Up To Your Marketing

Highlighting company values in candidate marketing is a great strategy, but candidate experience must live up to them.
Employees are changing jobs at a greater clip than ever before. In an effort to stand out in recruiting, it’s smart to lean into your company values when marketing job openings. But if candidate experiences – and subsequent employee experiences – don’t live up to those values, you’ll lose the best candidates and your employer brand will suffer.

IN THE MEDIABrenan GermanFebruary 28, 2024

6 Steps for Sourcing & Recruiting the Right Candidates

6 Steps for Sourcing & Recruiting the Right Candidates

Once you’ve done your workforce planning, the process of sourcing and recruiting flows naturally out of that exercise. Here are six tips for getting the right flow of candidates coming your way.

IN THE MEDIABrenan GermanOctober 17, 2023Bright Talent

6 Ways to Drive Effective Workforce Planning

6 Ways to Drive Effective Workforce Planning

Workforce planning is critical to creating a great candidate experience. Here are six key considerations that will help you drive effective workforce planning that nets you great hires in roles that fulfill your organization’s objectives.

IN THE MEDIABrenan GermanSeptember 13, 2023Bright Talent

Employee Experience Starts with Candidate Experience

Employee Experience Starts with Candidate Experience

The Employee Experience Lifecycle is both the employee journey and the HR processes that define every interaction with employees – from the initial job posting all the way through the exit interview. The goal is for employees to start, and end, their employee experience with nothing but good feelings about you and your company.

IN THE MEDIABrenan GermanAugust 9, 2023Bright Talent

Now, More than Ever, Employee Experience Matters

Now, More than Ever, Employee Experience Matters

Employee experience drives productivity, revenues and employee retention. Take a journey through the Employee Experience Lifecycle to understand best practices that will help you improve your HR operations.

IN THE MEDIABrenan GermanJuly 27, 2023Bright Talent

What Do You Need To Become A Recruiter?

What Do You Need To Become A Recruiter?

Part 3 of a 3-part Series

Talent acquisition professionals share their personal career stories, revealing how common it is for recruiters to come into the profession as a 2nd or 3rd career. Many were drawn to recruiting through serendipity or by seeking to expand their own careers in new and interesting ways.

In the culmination of this three-part series, top talent acquisition professionals share what additional advice they have for would-be recruiters.

IN THE MEDIABrenan GermanJanuary 13, 2023Bright Talent

Got Talent? How 3 High Performing Recruiters Found A Second Career In TA

Got Talent? How 3 High Performing Recruiters Found A Second Career In TA

Part 2 of a 3-part Series

Is there something about having work experiences in other domains that helps people become top recruiters? And what transferrable skills did they bring to the job that have helped them be so successful? Three top talent acquisition professionals who made the switch from completely different careers to ask three questions. How did you fall into recruiting? What capabilities are most important for someone considering a career in talent acquisition? Do you have any more advice for would-be recruiters?

IN THE MEDIABrenan GermanDecember 19, 2022Bright Talent

How I Fell Into Recruiting

How I Fell Into Recruiting

Part 1 of a 3-part Series

Why are so many successful recruiters come from completely different career areas? Is there something about having work experiences in other domains that helps people become top recruiters? And what transferrable skills did they bring to the job that have helped them be so successful?

Hear from three top talent acquisition professionals—including our own Brenan German—who made the switch from completely different careers.

IN THE MEDIABrenan GermanNovember 18, 2022Bright Talent

5 Strategies for HR to Successfully Manage Rapid Change

5 Strategies for HR to Successfully Manage Rapid Change

Change management is nothing new. But rapid change management is. HR’s success in these endeavors has set high expectations. And today, major workplace and practice changes that used to take months or even years to do in a programmatic and organized way are now expected to be done at warp speed.

Based on our hundreds of engagements with companies across different industries, here are five tried-and-true HR management best practices for driving rapid change initiatives within any organization more quickly and effectively.

IN THE MEDIABrenan GermanJuly 11, 2022Bright Talent

Promoting Agility and Resilience in a Rapidly Evolving World

Promoting Agility and Resilience in a Rapidly Evolving World

If the last two years have taught us anything, it’s that change is inevitable—and it can happen fast. Many of us went from a fully staffed, mostly in-person, at-the-office work environment to an almost completely work-from-home (WFH) model—virtually overnight. Management of these efforts fell largely on HR and Training departments, which bravely rose to the challenge.

In any previous era, these types of major workplace and practice changes would have taken months or even years to implement in a programmatic and organized way. But now we’ve established a perceptual benchmark for the C-suite, who now expect us to turn on a dime, create new business processes, and implement entirely new guidelines…rapidly.

IN THE MEDIABrenan GermanJuly 7, 2022Bright Talent