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November 17, 2014 Ashley Sutphin
There’s a great deal of focus in today’s marketplace about how companies can attract the best talent but companies continue to unknowingly do things that are in reality driving away talent. Many of the top reasons employers are pushing talent away are because of long-standing policies and actions that are simply unfavorable in the eyes […]
read moreNovember 17, 2014 Sherman Morrison
It was in 1989 in an Inc. magazine article called “The Open-Book Managers” that the phrase open-book management was used for the first time. It was a startling idea back then. In the early 1990s then-president Bill Clinton was presiding over a national labor relations conference at which one of the early advocates of open-book […]
read moreNovember 13, 2014 Sherman Morrison
If you’re considering making significant changes to your company’s PM system, it’s very useful to hear from someone who’s gone through the process, which is why I’m capping off my series of articles about performance management with a case study of a company that’s done it. Autodesk first made a name for itself with AutoCAD, […]
read moreNovember 10, 2014 Sherman Morrison
Realizing that 70% of American employees are disengaged from their work (source) is one thing. Actually doing something about it is another thing entirely. Of the many different ideas out there for boosting retention, one that has yet to receive much attention is gamification, which means using game design elements in a non-game context. Obviously, […]
read moreOctober 23, 2014 Ashley Sutphin
The skills gap. One of the most pervasive problems companies report facing right now, which is quite a paradox, considering the unemployment situation. Let’s take a look at the numbers, as noted in a report from Career Builder entitled “The Shocking Truth About the Skills Gap:” Over ½ of the businesses that responded to the […]
read moreOctober 23, 2014 Ashley Sutphin
We’ve discussed women in the workforce quite a bit recently, and oftentimes our talent management posts align more closely with the headlines than we even initially realize. One example of this came earlier this month as the Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella, made some comments about females in his organization caused a stir, to say the […]
read moreOctober 17, 2014 Ashley Sutphin
The candidate experience is no longer being overlooked by companies big and small. In the past the common conception was something along the lines of “why do we care about what the candidates think if we’re not hiring them?” With the rise of technology, pervasive interconnectedness, and social media, that idea has been turned on […]
read moreOctober 15, 2014 Sherman Morrison
We know the depressingly low percentage of employees that are truly engaged in their work. We also know that this lack of engagement results in costly turnover. That turnover drains as much as $5 trillion out of the US economy each year, making it one of the biggest costs in the American business world. A […]
read moreOctober 15, 2014 Ashley Sutphin
Maybe you’ve been convinced of the value of hiring interns. Perhaps it was because of our previous post, or maybe it was something you already realized. The question then becomes, how do you hire and manage interns in a way that’s going to benefit everyone? Hiring and managing interns is a unique proposition, and it’s […]
read moreOctober 15, 2014 Ashley Sutphin
Interns. The first thing this term probably brings to mind is having someone to grab you a cup of coffee or file paperwork. You probably don’t think of internship programs as having a tremendous amount of value to add to your organization, but that fault may lie less on your interns and more on your […]
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