You probably wouldn’t be surprised to hear that people are more hesitant to speak up at work now than they were a few years ago. I certainly wasn’t shocked when a study our firm conducted in late 2021 of more than 1,400 people confirmed this. After all, we are living in one of the most volatile...
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The Rise of the 15-Minute Meeting — And How to Run One
“Hey, can we get meetings both shorter and more engaging?” It’s a question software CEO Jim Szafranski gets a lot from customers, which range from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies. Szafranski runs Prezi, whose technology allows executives to add visuals and animations to video presentations and...
Fighting Employee Attrition: What is Within Your Control?
No matter what industry you are in, it’s normal for employees to come and go. Some employees leave their job because they may have found a better job opportunity. Others leave because they’re retiring, they’ve been let go, or even due to illness. Although they’re often used interchangeably,...
Work-From-Home Conditions Require New Ways to Onboard Employees
What if we treated new employees like new customers? It's a provocative question worth considering. In a time when finding, hiring and retaining talented employees is harder than ever, we need to look at how little we spend to turn these employees into loyalists. It may take months or a year to...
How Managers Confront Us/Them Thinking and Win
Us/them thinking comes naturally to everyone, even children. Imagine giving blue shirts to one group of children and yellow to another. Us/them thinking will animate perception quickly. Children think, ‘My group is better than your group.’ One researcher proved this. “Kids started to think the...
Don’t Hire a Former Employee Before Asking These Questions
Many employees are on the move, looking for that next opportunity. Perhaps they want a bigger challenge, more money, or believe they need to leave their current company to advance their career. But what if they leave your company and realize the new opportunity wasn’t as great as they thought, or...
These are the Workers You Especially Don’t Want to Lose and How to Get Them to Stay
A marketing leader at Ingram Micro North America maintains that retention strategies aimed at stopping the bleed or keeping the top brass fail to grasp what’s at least as scary. Everywhere you look, the specter of the Great Resignation looms large. Executives, navigating a business climate of...
This is the Biggest Reason People Quit and it’s 10 Times More Important Than Pay
Business leaders spent the bulk of 2021 managing record turnover during what’s become known as the Great Resignation, with a big focus on people quitting for higher-paying jobs, better working conditions and attractive benefits. But according to one analysis published in the MIT Sloan Management...
What Employees Want
When Jamal Arnold graduated from Western Oregon University with a bachelor's degree in business administration and management, he had more than $50,000 in student loan debt. After he started working at Chegg, he learned about the company's student loan repayment benefit. "It's the best thing...
Employees are Craving Leadership Training More Than Ever. Try This Simple Way to Deliver
The chief people officer at isolved says that one of the missteps many organizations make is not leveraging new employee skills or acknowledging the accomplishments of their current employees. Some experts are predicting the current skills gap will widen into a “skills canyon.” This is sending...
How to Automate Your Hiring Process Without Missing Good Candidates
Applicant-tracking systems like Greenhouse can help manage your hiring surge. Here's how to take full advantage. When pandemic demand led Pattern Brands, an NYC-based e-commerce retailer of items for the home, to double its team and hire 27 full-time employees in the past six months, co-founder...
Companies Embrace Older Workers As Younger Employees Quit or Become Less Reliable
At 73, showing up to work five days a week in the shipping department of AIS Inc.—an office pod manufacturing company he’s been with for nearly two decades—was starting to be a grind for Bob Adams. He kept having to request Fridays off for doctor’s appointments to help keep his nagging diabetes,...