When 1,380 employees got a $100,000 bonus each, the story should have made headlines everywhere. The brilliant bonus decision was a wonderful example of a … Read more
Getting Leaders to Be Obsessed With their Staff’s Career Development
How do you get your leaders obsessed with the career development of their team? This was a question put to us recently by one of our business clients. … Read more
Where Do Your Employees Fit On the Engagement Resistance Curve?
Employee engagement begins with the individual employee. If the organization — corporation, not-for-profit, university, sports team, what-have-you — … Read more
Take It From Taylor Swift: It’s High Time to End the Millennial Bashing
Taylor Swift doesn’t care if you think she’s part of the “Me” generation. She flew in the face of all of our careful quantitative analyses of the so-called … Read more
December Is the Critical Month to Recruit (and Retain) Salespeople
If you haven’t already shifted to a data-based recruiting approach, December is an ideal time to see the benefits resulting from using data to take what I … Read more
Hiring Wisdom: 7 Resolutions You Need to Make to Find and Retain Talent
At the end of every year, we are likely to see a rash of articles in the business press reporting the percentage of employees who have made a New Year’s … Read more
For More Motivated, Engaged Employees, Give Them More Autonomy
Whether your goal is to increase employee motivation, engagement, or morale, one of most effective actions you can take is to give employees more autonomy. … Read more
HR’s Important Role in Defining Employee Engagement
Recently, there has been a lot of discussion around the topic of workplace engagement. Most notably, an expose of Amazon in The New York Times highlighted … Read more
The 6 Strategic Recruiting Metrics That Executives Want to See
Stop Flailing, and Finally Understand What Makes a Metric Strategic During the many decades that I have been a metrics expert, I have found that the amount … Read more
9 Employee Retention Statistics That Will Make You Sit Up and Pay Attention
Retention in the workplace is in a predicament — the revolving door is circulating faster, and the organizations struggling with this are on the … Read more