Nobody in their right mind wants to be laid off, especially now that unemployment benefits that were expanded due to the Great Recession are returning to … Read more
The Brain Drain: Using Technology to Capture Retiring Boomer Knowledge
The Baby Boomer generation has experienced some of the most drastic changes to how we conduct business that the world has ever seen. Among them: … Read more
Can’t Find the Right People? Maybe Bad Hiring Strategies Are to Blame
A few days ago, we found a rather interesting article about ineffective hiring strategies hurting some companies in Minnesota. Specifically, these growing … Read more
Employee Retention Doesn’t Just Happen: Five Keys to a Clear Strategy
What employee retention strategies do you use to engage and retain employees? Research from the Bureau of Labor Statistics bureau show that the average … Read more
The New World of Work: It Takes a Very Different Management Mindset
Take a minute and look around you. Gone is your corner office; you’re now sitting between the intern who started last week and your client who works from … Read more
Are You Really Winning the War For Talent Retention?
Losing hurts – especially when it’s the other person who decides to move on. “Regretted turnover” is a metric that some companies now use to track how many … Read more
Please, Don’t Hate Me! Here Are the Biggest Lies That Recruiters Tell
So, last week I wrote a little HR blog post called Top Candidate Lies, and it got a rather large reaction. LinkedIn’s What’s Hot picked it up from TLNT … Read more
Nate Silver? He’s Proof That You Need to Develop Your Data Rock Stars
Nate Silver has a way with data. He’s known for being an innovator in interpreting, simplifying and translating complex data with accuracy. Not your … Read more
The 5 Things You Need to Communicate During a Layoff
While the economy seems to be on the mend, there are still many companies struggling to remain solvent. As such, companies that cannot find other ways to … Read more
Engagement and High Performance: The Link Could Not Be Any Clearer
I was talking with the CEO and CMO of a startup software company in the HCM space yesterday. One of the things we talked about was the ready availability … Read more