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About Edith Onderick-Harvey

Edith Onderick-Harvey is NextBridge’s managing partner. She is a widely-recognized consultant, speaker, and author. Throughout her career, Edith has specialized in working with clients to execute their current strategies while preparing for what’s ahead. In 1999, Edith founded the company under the name Factor in Talent and has served as its President. She previously served as a Partner in charge of marketing with Bridge Avenue Partners, Senior Consultant with Accenture, and in leadership roles at BankBoston (Bank of America) as well as Fidelity Investments.

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7 Ways to Make Performance Review Discussions Easier… and More Effective

December 3, 2020 in Culture, Leadership, Leading Change, Performance /by Edith Onderick-Harvey

Performance management is a source of some frustration for most managers, especially having the “dreaded” review discussion. There are ways to make that conversation both easier and more effective. It’s that time of the year again. No, not the holidays. Performance review and annual goal setting time. Many people dread performance reviews. That dread is exacerbated this year […]

Performance Reviews: 4 Tips for Better Strategic Alignment

December 3, 2020 in Change Leadership, Leadership, Performance /by Edith Onderick-Harvey

Most managers and employees don’t know their own organization’s strategic goals. So, whether you’re reviewing a middle manager or a front-line supervisor, there are good reasons to make the discussion more strategic. For starters, you’ll have more productive and effective leaders on your team; along with higher engagement and retention of key talent. Here are 4 ways […]

7 Covid Agility Lessons We Can’t Forget

October 6, 2020 in Career Development, Change Leadership, Culture, Leadership, Virtual Leadership /by Edith Onderick-Harvey

COVID has taught us that we can and must be able to change rapidly, to transform on the fly if need be. We’ve had no choice but to go more completely digital, transforming our customer, employee, student and supplier experiences. Truly listening with empathy, and being agile became key not just for leaders, but for everyone. Change […]

Does Your Onboarding Experience Still Work, Post-Covid?

September 14, 2020 in Change Leadership, Hiring Process, Leadership, Leading Change, Talent Management, Virtual Leadership, Workplace culture /by Edith Onderick-Harvey

How are You Onboarding (or Re-boarding) Post-Covid? One of the challenges of having so many people working virtually is creating and keeping a vibrant culture that helps everyone feel connected and driven by a shared purpose. Among the earliest experiences our people have with the culture is during on-boarding. Working in the COVD and post-COVID environment, […]

The More Things Change… the More We Need to Lean on the Fundamentals

July 28, 2020 in Change Leadership, Innovation, Leadership /by Edith Onderick-Harvey

I recently came across this article written nearly 10 years ago. In some ways it felt a bit quaint, but I was struck by how applicable the ideas were to not only this decade, but to our current Covid business reality. Enjoy. Results-Based Performance in a Virtual World This posting is co-written with my colleague […]

Let’s Change the Change Paradigm

July 3, 2020 in Change Leadership, Culture, Leadership /by Edith Onderick-Harvey

“We, as humans, are built for positive disruption.” That’s how a speaker at a recent virtual conference described change. Is that how you think about change and disruption? At about the same time, I read an article in Talent Quarterly by Joe Folkman about research into the push and pull approaches to leading change. When leaders use the push approach, […]

Why Is It So Hard To Get My Organization To Change? And What To Do About It.

June 4, 2020 in Culture, Leadership, Leading Change, Vision, Workplace culture /by Edith Onderick-Harvey

Why Is It So Hard To Get My Organization To Change? You know that change is hard. You’ve experienced it. Often, leaders feel that, with all the day-to-day demands on them, they just don’t have the time to be working on how to get to the future. It could be that the team is faced with a […]

Are You Ready for What’s Next?

May 15, 2020 in Culture, Innovation, Leading Change, Virtual Leadership, Workplace culture /by Edith Onderick-Harvey

As of today, 48 of the 50 U.S. states are ‘re-opening’. Massachusetts, one of the last to take the step, has decided to begin a phased re-opening next week. I’m curious about what you envisioned re-opening would be like when we all starting staying home about 8 weeks ago. Until recently, I’ve been so focused on […]

Silver Linings of Covid 19

May 14, 2020 in Culture, Innovation, Uncategorized, Virtual Leadership, Vision, Workplace culture /by Edith Onderick-Harvey

We are about a month into widespread WFH (work from home). As people tend to do during significant change, we notice the things that we are missing – our favorite lunch restaurants, seeing colleagues and friends without social distancing, and the opportunity to go to the office. During my conversations with a number of leaders over […]

What’s Next? Saving 2020

April 3, 2020 in Change Leadership, Culture, Leadership /by Edith Onderick-Harvey

Congratulations on getting through the past three weeks! We’ve just been through the early days of the biggest social and economic disruption of the last 50 years. We don’t have a rule book, so we’ve been figuring it out as we go along. Honestly, many of us have been focused solely on what’s in front […]