A recent Gallup study found that only 47 percent of American workers are completely satisfied with their jobs. A MarketTools study found that 21 percent of … Read more
Develop a Hiring Manager Scorecard … to Make Them More Accountable (Part 2 of 2)
If you’re going to measure and perhaps reward individual hiring managers for excellence, you will need to work with a sample of them to determine which … Read more
Turnover Can Be Good, or Why Great Gardeners Know to Pull a Few Weeds
Two of the most direct, measurable people metrics affected by strategic, social employee recognition are employee engagement and employee retention. Nearly … Read more
Develop a Recruiter Scorecard … Because Champions Demand That You Keep Score (Part 2 of a 2-part series)
How to develop a recruiter scorecard for assessing individual corporate recruiter performance Champions insist that you keep score. If you understand that … Read more
Hiring Wisdom: Feedback on “Ways to Guarantee Your Best People Quit”
We received the following comments from a reader in response to my monthly Hiring Hint entitled Top 10 Ways to Guarantee Your Best People Will Quit. … Read more
There Is No I in Team, but There’s a Team in Spurs
The San Antonio Spurs have a keen eye for talent. They do a lot of things right and a lot of those principles are applicable to how we in corporate America … Read more
What’s the No. 1 Worry For HR Executives? Surprise! It’s a Talent Issue
Want to know what’s reeeeeeally going on in the world of work? Right Management, the talent and career management arm of ManpowerGroup, has released a … Read more
Survey: Half of Companies Report Higher Turnover Than Last Year
For years, there have been worries that there was a big employee exodus coming — when the economy finally started to show some improvement and began … Read more
Hiring Wisdom: 10 Steps to Hiring and Retaining a Great Team
Take and stay in control of your team. Share your desire, vision and purpose with your team to move them in the right direction. Let only positive people … Read more
10 Tips For Reducing Employee Turnover
Many people agree turnover is a growing issue, particularly as hiring picks up. But what are most organizations doing about it, aside from implementing … Read more