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
Retaining Top Talent Is More Than Just Telling Employees “Thank You”
In the last few months in my travels to lead workshops with clients and to present at various HR and strategy conferences around the world, I’m hearing a … Read more