It’s become common practice in high level NCAA Division Athletics to use retained search firms to hire athletic directors and coaches. Recently, the … Read more
7 Ways Leaders Can Keep Their Promises (and the Trust) of Employees
Leaders make a lot of promises. They promise high-quality products and experiences to customers, careers that offer opportunity and purpose to employees, … Read more
It’s Official: Millennials Are Now the Largest Part of the U.S. Workforce
According to a recent Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau figures, Gen Y has officially edged out Gen X in 2015 to nab the largest share of … Read more
Exit Interviews Not Doing Much? 5 Easy Ways to Improve Your Results
Exit interviews follow along the same lines as Amazon or Yelp reviews. The ones most likely to participate are the outliers, those who are very happy or … Read more
The Three Hallmarks of a Dysfunctional Workplace
In Anna Karenina, Russian author Leo Tolstoy famously wrote “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” The same could … Read more
Recognition and Fair Pay Are Baseline Principles For Better Engagement
In the last week, a couple of research reviews have crossed my desk, both summarizing decades of research, surveys and analysis in the complex and … Read more
One Survey’s Focus: Lots of Growth, But Little on the Workforce and Driving It
Wait – what? I’m looking at a new survey analysis/report from KPMG titled Setting the course for growth: CEO Perspectives. Unlike every other CEO … Read more
Here Are 112,500 Reasons Not to Make an Employee to Stay Home Until 100% Healed
By Eric B. Meyer Do this and you might as well paint a huge bulls-eye on your business and open up your checkbook. This EEOC press release, announcing an … Read more
Hiring Diverse Candidates Can Be Good For Your Business – and Your Workforce
talentRecently, the NFL’s Arizona Cardinals hired the very first female coach in league history. This is a seismic shift in a field heavily dominated … Read more
Why the NLRB Ruled That College Football Players Can’t Unionize
By Nelson Cary and George Stevens This week, the long-running saga of whether NCAA Division I football players are employees under the National Labor … Read more