Business owners, executives and leaders must have a clear plan of action in order to achieve their goals (sales goals, customer service goals, product development goals, etc.). However, what often gets left out of that strategic plan is a detailed “people” plan. Do you have...
The top two biggest concerns I’m hearing from clients are 1) hiring people in a time with a smaller workforce participation rate, (It was 66.7% in Jan 2002, down to 62.4% Jan 2023) and 2) keeping people. Remember, people “fire a boss”. Don’t let your...
I'm sure you've read that 4.27 million people, or 2.9% of the workforce, quit their job in August 2021. This is the highest number on record going back to 2000, and it's exacerbating the problem employers are having hiring. Remember that hiring and retaining top...
The human brain can process 11 million bits of information every second. But our conscious minds can handle only 40 to 50 bits of information a second. So our brains sometimes take cognitive shortcuts that can lead to unconscious or implicit bias, with serious consequences...
Here's a great article from one of my strategic partner firms, APS. Christian Valiulis, CRO at APS, is a member of the Forbes Business Development Council who recently shared these tips on hiring and best managing high performing teams....
Having the wrong person in any job is an expensive business problem given that most employers are not paying people to coast through their workday, playing on their phones and basically not doing their jobs. That’s the difference between doing the bare minimum to get...
Learn how to align your people strategy with your business strategy. If you hire on resume alone, you end up with sheep when you need something quite different. There's more to people than their resumes! We help organizations define the ideal attributes required for every position in...
