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.

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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Choose Love Over Fear To Unlock Your Leadership Potential

We are very excited to share that we have partnered with Goalcast as a platform partner to expand the reach for our articles on talent, leadership & culture. This article discusses a personal story of a situation early on in my career where under the same difficult business conditions, I witnessed 2 different leaders make […]

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The Best Leadership Lessons Are From Loved Ones

In late April our family lost a great leader. The world lost one if you ask me. My uncle John Cortissoz or “Big Jack” as he was affectionately known to family and friends. A loving husband, father, brother and family man who was dedicated to serving others. Dynamic personality. Movie star qualities. Former advertising executive […]

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Falling Back In Love With Your Job

We can all get frustrated at work. Sometimes, beyond frustrated.  Seamlessly never-ending workloads, unrealistic deadlines and last-minute “emergencies”. Days or periods when going to work can seem “soul-sucking”.  Many people when they get to this point, believe a job change is in order, “fire up their resume” and update their LinkedIn profile. This may be the […]

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How AI and Blockchain Technologies are Transforming HR

A thought which has permeated each and every industry since their inception is “what’s next?” We’ve witnessed the invention of the steam engine, the assembly line, electronics and the internet — but there is plenty more innovation still to come on the horizon. In recent years, we’ve seen a shift toward interconnectivity, including the progression of the Internet […]

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HR Soul Hires New Chief Experience Officer to Expand Its Portfolio of Consulting Offerings to Orlando Companies | Official Press Release

HR Soul Consulting – a Tampa based Human Resources and Talent Management consulting firm, has hired Matt Hall as its new Chief Experience Officer (CXO) to expand its portfolio of talent, leadership and culture offerings into the Orlando market. ORLANDO- February 10, 2020 – According to Gallup, only 1/3 of currently only about 1/3 of U.S. […]

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