All Posts by Paul Cortissoz

About the Author

Paul Cortissoz, CEO & founding partner of HR Soul has decades of senior level corporate HR experience in leading global organizations. Learn more about Paul Cortissoz's professional expertise and accomplishments.

How To Develop an Employer Brand With Soul

There is an old saying is business….if you are not growing you are dying.Today’s talent market is more demanding than it’s ever been. According to Deloitte’s 2016 Millennial Survey, 66% of millennials plan to leave their organizations by 2020. There are 1.4 unemployed workers for every open position, and the average job opening remains unfilled for […]

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Ideas To Improve Engagement During The Health Crisis

Disruption. Happened.In a matter of days and weeks the world changed.Businesses closed. Streets empty.  Leaders having to make very difficult decisions on how to ride out the crisis. People losing their jobs.  Death. Needless to say, the health crisis has had a big cost.But there are other less visible costs to your people as well.People feeling […]

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How To Develop a Thriving Company Culture

Is Your Company a Subdivision or a Thriving City? Have you ever had the experience of listening to a piece of music that you heard when you were younger, but never even realized how powerful the lyrics were until later in life?  That happened to me today when listening to one of the greatest bands of all […]

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Ideas To Disrupt Your Talent Strategy

I need to make a confession. I am a “HR trends addict”. What usually fuels my addiction are studies like the Deloitte Human Capital Trends Report and the Mercer Talent Trends Study. I am intrigued by what executives and HR professionals believe are their current and future priorities. I am fascinated by the analytics, trends and insights. I am […]

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Your HR Strategy May Involve a Reduction in Headcount

For many HR professionals, the first week of January is the beginning of a very busy period depending on when your fiscal year begins. It also usually represents the beginning of your annual HR strategic plan.  Likely you either you have developed it– or in the final stage of its completion. That is where I hope to help shape […]

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Handling Difficult Employee Performance Conversations (A Practical Guide)

This practical guide was developed for HR professionals to share with leaders at all levels to help them effectively manage these important conversations. For most HR professionals, the first quarter of the year is an extremely busy period managing the year-end Performance Cycle. Running workshops for managers and employees on preparing for their review. Leading […]

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Critical Imperatives For Your Learning Strategy

This month LinkedIn Learning Solutions published their 2017 Workplace Learning Report. I applaud them in their continued efforts to benchmark human capital and provide the report freely to business leaders and HR professionals. I believe there are deeper, more important insights for L&D professionals than what is summarized in their report. 2017 LinkedIn Workplace Learning Report Summary LinkedIn Learning […]

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Love Or Fear – The Foundation Of Your Leadership

This article is the first in a series that examines love vs fear at work from several HR & people related angles. Part 1 deals with the idea itself, and begins the discussion on the applications for self-leadership. Love or fear. At first glance it seems like a strange topic to be discussing from a professional perspective. Some […]

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