What’s hot in talent management changes quite often. Right now, there’s no hotter topic within the talent management community than workforce … Read more
Employee Furloughs Can Be a Bad Alternative to Layoffs
You can’t read a newspaper these days without reading about organizations that are implementing employee furloughs in order to save money and to … Read more
Why is Unemployment So High, and How to Emerge a Winner
Why is unemployment higher than it has been for decades and massive layoffs announced daily? Is something going on that is deeper than a recession? In past … Read more
Do You Manage By Making Employees Guess How They’re Doing, or Through Performance Appraisal?
When I supported the contract side of recruitment, it was sometimes necessary to share with temporary employees feedback from clients. It was more likely … Read more
10 Recruiting Lessons That You Can Learn From the Super Bowl
To most people, the Super Bowl is a fun event to watch. However, because the game is highly competitive and because only the very best teams make it to the … Read more
Time to Say Goodbye: Are You Keeping the Bad and Terminating the Good?
Any manager who takes an honest look at individual performance knows all employees are not created equally. About 20% of employees rise to the top of the … Read more
Keeping the Best When Times are Tough
Even though there are layoffs announced every day, organizations I am speaking with still need to keep the people who generate sales, create new products, … Read more
The Value of Seniority
I remember when I was 24 years old. Having graduated, and paid for college single-handedly with no outside assistance, I felt I was smarter than 90% of the … Read more
Keep the Secret Ballots
Bush is out the door and Obama is here — but what does this new administration mean for the workplace? There’s the obvious. Many are looking to … Read more
Talentonomics – Proving the Economic Value of Talent Management
I derived the concept of Talentonomics from the approach heralded in the best-selling book Freakonomics. In this effective and entertaining book, the … Read more