Posts Tagged ‘Employment Market’
Executive Corner – 5 Specific Questions to Ask to Delight and Actually Retain Top Talent
Companies can decrease turnover by implementing the valuable practice of the “Stay Interview” with current employees. Stay Interviews are certainly not a brand-new concept, but the current employment climate has forced companies to consider its relevance in the war for talent. This article is an updated version from the original written in 2018, and some things have changed. The…
Read MoreExecutive Corner – Promote or Remote: Working at Home Hurts Your Chances for Advancement
Call it unconscious bias or “out of sight out of mind.” The data shows that your boss views people in the office more favorably than your peers who work from home. I know, I know. I get it. You are more productive at home and work longer hours since you don’t have to commute to and…
Read MoreExecutive Corner – Great Onboarding Reduces Retention Agony
Great Onboarding Will Reduce Retention Agony (Updated 3/28/2022) Most companies are making key hires multiple times annually. With historically low unemployment rates transitioning to “the great resignation”, the demand for retaining top talent has never been higher. A successful onboarding practice can get the process of retention started from the application to the anniversary date. How many companies are paying…
Read MoreExecutive Corner – We All Need Psychological Safety
One of the greatest threats to breakthrough innovation and growth will be organizations that stifle differing opinions or worse, those that don’t reward engaging in different ideas. One book that I recently completed by Adam Grant, “Think Again”, has an entire chapter devoted to Psychological Safety. Which is fostering a climate of respect trust and openness…
Read MoreExecutive Corner – Being Nice Doesn’t Mean You Have Emotional Intelligence
Pandemic – Coronavirus – Covid 19 – Delta Variant – Masks – Omicron – Depression – Vaccination -Mandates – Inflation – Ukraine – The Great Resignation – The Great Reshuffle etc. There are many emotional responses that come with some, most or all these words. Mental Health is a big challenge today. Especially given that many of our…
Read MoreExecutive Corner – Leaders Don’t Use Enough CRIME
CRIME is an acronym that I like to use so that leaders can focus on learning the human side of leading. Leaders are being challenged today like never before. The reason is there’s more information coming at us at a faster rate. Progress is happening daily instead of being measured by years. In 1969, two brave astronauts…
Read MoreExecutive Corner – Please – STOP Having Bad Meetings
Most leaders understand that a 1×1 is important. Why are we so bad at them? Bad 1×1’s lead to disengaged employees which become turnover and low retention rates. This in turn is hurting your ability to attract top talent and if you do attract top talent, it hurts your ability keep them. I understand how…
Read MoreExecutive Corner – What Can Small Businesses do to Defeat ‘The Great Resignation’?
Leader’s worlds are being flipped upside down in all size companies. The Great Resignation is a bigger challenge to business than any of the Covid variants. Yet not many leaders are paying attention. Gallup data shows that 48% of the current workforce wants to change jobs within the next year. Covid is only a symptom of this issue. No community is being impacted greater than the small business…
Read MoreBenchmarking Series: HR Generalist in the Charlotte Metro Area
Benchmarked Position for September 2021 We wanted to start out our benchmarking series with a position that we feel is highly important to our audience and where we have seen some changes in recent months. Many companies are looking to fill HR positions as professionals move around in the industry. The HR Generalist will work…
Read MoreCompanies Identify Top Hiring Challenges
Continuing the conversation around the “Crisis for Talent,” a recent staffing industry survey of nearly 3,000 senior hiring managers identified the top 5 hiring challenges that companies are currently facing in the US (and very likely abroad). Companies continue to add more new jobs yet find themselves struggling to fill the roles. The well-established candidate-driven…
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