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Talent – The Competitive Advantage

Posted on February 11th, 2016 | Employee Retention, Goals, Hiring Talent, HR Related, Management Concepts, Team Building

Competitive advantage is one of the most popular concepts talked about today – both online and in business circles. What exactly does it mean? We know it refers to an organization’s ability to outperform its competitors, lead [ … ] Read More

Expectations for 2016

Posted on December 18th, 2015 | Corporate Culture, Goals, Hiring Talent, HR Related, Inspiration, Seasonal Content

What’s it going to take for your company to be successful next year? In may cases the last quarter of the year is when most companies start thinking about the business challenges of the coming year. That also means [ … ] Read More

Onboarding – Critical for the Business Plan

Posted on November 20th, 2015 | Corporate Culture, Employee Retention, Hiring Talent, HR Related, Management Concepts

Onboarding – Organizational Socialization The onboarding process includes the entire interaction with a new employee from interview to hire – and all that follows – orientation, integration and career development support. Unlike payroll processing, group benefit administration, training and [ … ] Read More

10 Rules to Hiring Great People – based on Pierre Mornell’s book “45 Effective Ways for Hiring Smart”

Posted on September 18th, 2015 | Hiring Talent, HR Related, Leadership Matters, Management Concepts, Team Building

Rule #1 is clear AND supremely counterintuitive when hiring great people- Don’t ever, ever hire somebody just like yourself. Why is that so hard? And what has happened to executives and companies that did that? As management [ … ] Read More

Culture, Teams and the US Navy SEALS

Posted on July 23rd, 2015 | Corporate Culture, Employee Retention, Goals, Hiring Talent, HR Related, Inspiration, Leadership Matters, Seasonal Content, Team Building

The Navy SEALS is all about WE Recently I’ve been reading and thinking about how certain structured groups relate to successful business models. In particular, I was considering the ME culture that exist in some organizations [ … ] Read More

Job Hopping – Strategic or Problematic?

Posted on July 16th, 2015 | Career Advancement, Employee Retention, Goals, Hiring Talent, HR Related, Personal Success, Self Management, Work - Life Balance

Job Hopping – What does it mean in today’s business world? Job hopping is a term that means different things to different people. Why? Because it can depend on industry, situation, generation and/or decade. Generically, most people [ … ] Read More

Keeping up with – The Employee

Posted on June 18th, 2015 | Corporate Culture, Employee Retention, Hiring Talent, HR Related, Leadership Matters, Work - Life Balance

We are not in Kansas anymore. Here today……. Gone tomorrow……. Employee turnover is on the rise and it is a very significant challenge for business. Even more so during this candidate driven market. Should your company be concerned about defecting [ … ] Read More

Talent Shortage – Talking Points

Posted on June 12th, 2015 | Career Advancement, Corporate Culture, Employee Retention, Hiring Talent, HR Related, Team Building, Work - Life Balance

As Jimmy Fallon would say – this is what everyone’s talking about……. in this case it is the talent shortage. Is this the same thing as what was once called ‘The War on Talent’? Not exactly. IMHO – [ … ] Read More

Soft Skills are Hard Necessities

Posted on May 7th, 2015 | Career Advancement, Corporate Culture, Employee Retention, Goals, Hiring Talent, HR Related, Inspiration, Personal Success, Self Management, Team Building

People underperform because they lack soft skills. Regardless of profession, industry or niche, every role occupied by every person requires two very broad categories of skills – hard skills and soft skills. Technical skills and Non-technical skills. [ … ] Read More

Soft “How Well You Fit In” Skills

Posted on April 30th, 2015 | Career Advancement, Employee Retention, Goals, Hiring Talent, Leadership Matters, Personal Success, Team Building

Soft Skills Determine the ‘Fit’ that Impacts Careers Soft skills are those personal qualities, habits, characteristics, traits and attitudes that are not traditionally taught in schools or even on the job. Many successful people have developed [ … ] Read More