The Human Advantage: Redefining Talent in an Age of AI and Empathy
Not long ago, people panicked that AI might take over human jobs. In many ways, it already has. The bots now handle scheduling, reports, and even parts of recruitment and customer service. But here’s the twist: the smartest leaders aren’t fighting it, they’re finessing it. The real edge isn’t in coding faster; it’s in thinking […]
Forget Generational Thinking: Look for this Talent Trifecta Instead
In most organizations, you’ll find Boomers, Zoomers, and every label in between. Consultants have made a living convincing leaders they must manage people differently based on their birth year. The assumption? You’ll magically “get” people from your own generation while remaining mystified by others. Let’s set fire to that nonsense. Executives who would never tolerate […]
Yes, Your Employees Are Probably Looking for Other Jobs. Stop Trying to Fight It.
With low unemployment and growing demand for talent, it’s absolutely a job seeker’s market out there right now. A survey last year found that 82 percent of workers were open to new employment opportunities, and Gallup data from 2015 and 2016 indicated that half of all employees in the U.S. were actively seeking new jobs. […]
Performance Management: It’s Not a Product, It’s a Partnership
The right partnership is key for successful performance management. Here are some expectations you should set for consultants you work with.
The Best Performance Management Puts Humans First
Everyone wants to improve their performance management, but doing it isn’t that easy. Meghan M. Biro looks at the key reasons we fail and how to succeed. It’s all about the tech.
How to Turn Your Employees into Brand Advocates
Empowering employees to publicize and promote your organization as brand advocates can give you a clear edge in the war for talent, experts agree.
4 Reasons Not to Base Hiring on Skills
The competition for talent isn’t going away. Nor is the need to hire people who know how to do the job and won’t leave. With the average life expectancy of an employee on the job in the U.S. shrinking — from 4.6 percent in 2014 to 4.2 percent in 2016 — we’re all looking for […]
#WorkTrends Recap: The New Digital Workplace: Four Key Trends
As technology advances and changes our workplaces, many pundits speculate on the trends that we need to be mindful of. Companies are developing global footprints and with that employ people based in different countries with varying cultural nuances, the need for better digital tools and accessibility to remain connected continues to rise. This week on […]
#WorkTrends Preview: The New Digital Workplace: Four Key Trends
Many pundits in the HR and tech space are speculating on trends we need to be mindful of. Many anticipate the workplace as we know it today will be a great predictor of what’s to come. As more and more companies develop a global footprint and with that employ people based in different countries with […]
#WorkTrends Recap: The Candidate Experience
The employee engagement experience. The candidate experience. Both very valid and important topics to be considered in today’s business world. Gone are the days of companies ignoring their employer brand, reputation as an employer of choice and with that conducting interviews and onboarding new employees in a haphazard fashion. With the jobs market leaning more […]
#WorkTrends Preview: The Candidate Experience
The employee engagement experience. The candidate experience. Both very valid and important topics to be considered in today’s business world. Gone are the days of companies ignoring their employer brand, reputation as an employer of choice and with that conducting interviews and onboarding new employees in a haphazard fashion. Join Meghan M. Biro and her […]
#WorkTrends Recap: Millennial Attraction Factors
There are more millennials among today’s applicants than any other generation, and they’ll be 75 percent of the workforce by 2025. On this week’s #WorkTrends show, we were joined by CEO of The Muse, Kathryn Minshew, who shared insights on what attracts millennial talent. Kathryn discussed the challenges all businesses face in finding what resonates […]
#WorkTrends Preview: Millennial Attraction Factors
There are more millennials among today’s applicants than any other generation, and they’ll be 75 percent of the workforce by 2025. On this week’s show, we’ll talk about what attracts millennial talent. The challenge all businesses face is finding that sweet spot between the myths and the truth — and what resonates with millennials may […]
5 Attributes Of A World-Class Workforce
There’s a technology-driven revolution happening in HR these days. It’s called self-service and it gives employees more power over their careers. In a nutshell, self-service gives people control over many functions that used to be handled by HR. With a private log-in, employees can now manage their own payroll and retirement plans, request time-off and […]
The New Rules Of Leadership
Spring is in the air, the days are getting longer and the crocuses are poking up their hopeful heads. Yet, these remain bleak times for too many job seekers, even leaders and managers with impressive resumes. The reason? The demands of a collaboration-based, talent-hungry, global, wired economy are evolving so quickly that success depends on […]
Gardening Season: Nurture a “Blooming” Talent Pool
Spring is the kind of season that floods the senses – in a good way. After a long, wet and cold winter, many of us look forward to getting outside in our communities and breathing in the scent of freshly spread mulch. Neighbors tend to their beds, with attentive watering and weeding. Soon, they reap […]
The Talent You’re Looking For Doesn’t Have a Resume
A recent expedition into a client research project gave me a sudden “A-Ha” about creating a Fiercely Loyal internal culture. While I can’t share the specifics of the project, I can share what I learned and how it is directly linked to creating a Fiercely Loyal culture, the kind where amazing work gets done and […]
5 Most Important Decisions a Leader Can Make
As a leader, you do have a choice as to how you spend your decision-making time; there are numerous possibilities when it comes to which decisions to make yourself and those that you leave for others. How do you determine the “my decision” areas? The criteria I used was payback. Where could I add the […]
Talent: Long-Term Perspective Pays Greater Dividends
There are two ways to think about an organization’s talent, one that takes a short-term perspective and another that takes a long-term perspective. In choosing which approach is preferable, it’s important to take a deeper look at the evidence and data. In the first approach, the focus is on deriving as much value from workers […]
Talent Trumps Everything!
Billions are invested in the latest sales and marketing automation tools. Billions are spent on training of all sorts. We spend countless hours looking at the right processes, the right systems, the right tools, the right metrics. Managers spend countless hours developing strategies and making sure plans/goals/programs/metrics are in place to execute the strategies as […]
Perception Is Reality: Talent Magnets Attract The Best People
‘We don’t much care about having you as an employee. Move along.’ I’m hearing a lot from top performing talent at leading technology companies jumping ship in droves. When it’s an AOL or a Yahoo facing tremendous uncertainty, dropping stock price, and competition on all fronts, it’s not difficult to understand. At some point you […]
How to Build a Competitive Talent Advantage
How can your company attract and retain the best talent? Sylvia Ann Hewlett, founding president of the Center for Talent Innovation, says it’s crucial to recognize upfront that “our career model is hopelessly dated.” In many ways, the corporate world is still stuck in the 1960s and 1970s, she says, but both the demographics and […]
Three Ways To Distinguish A Killer Culture
Workplace culture is everything. It’s how work gets accomplished (or avoided); it encompasses the systems, processes and decision-making space to work effectively and efficiently; and incorporates the values, beliefs and behaviors exemplified (or not) by leaders–and by “leaders” I am referring to yesterday’s new hire up through the CEO. Without the right workplace culture, you’re […]
Is There An “Encore” In Your Career’s Future?
I live in New York City in Midtown Manhattan, within easy walking distance of world-class performing arts venues Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. Encores are highly prized and sought after in my neighborhood. When it comes to your career, or the recruiting you and your firm are doing, is there an encore in your future? […]
Attracting and Growing Talent: Skillpreneurs
Skillpreneurs – Your Company’s Secret Weapons I’d like to make a proposition: let’s stop focusing on the Millennials and look at the bigger picture of people who have the potential and talent to make waves in business. I’m talking about highly skilled, self-driven people of all ages – Skillpreneurs – who are simply not motivated by traditional employer […]