Posts Tagged ‘Hiring’
Executive Corner – Learning How to Win From Michael Jordan’s Coach: What Tim Grover taught me
I am attending a conference with the MRI Network that hosts some of the world’s most outstanding and successful recruiters. This network represents recruiters from over 20 different nations across four continents. Tim Grover gave the keynote address, and I’m going to share some of my lessons. Tim Grover is known for coaching one of the greatest…
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 – 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 – Being Respected vs. Being Liked
When I meet with leaders that are new in their roles, I cover a lot of key topic areas. One of the first things that I ask them about is how important it is to them to be liked by their team. It’s important to identify how much weight your new leader puts on being…
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 MoreEmployee Tenure: Why Do They Leave? And What Can You Do?
When reviewing candidate resumes, hiring companies often key in on the length of time spent at previous companies and draw negative conclusions if the tenure trends to the run on the short side. So much so, they will absolutely pass on interviewing if they feel the candidate is a “job hopper.” This practice makes sense…
Read MoreStop Overlooking (The Most) Highly Qualified Job Candidates!
I’m talking about the, “more experienced, more seasoned, more mature.” Yes, the over 50 crowd! Age discrimination is not a new issue and it impacts nearly every aspect of life in the United States unfortunately, but in the current job market, it is mind boggling why companies are still refusing to give older Americans a…
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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