Retention rates for mentees are 50 percent higher than those not mentored. In fact, mentoring can have a much greater impact on retention than salary increases. Think back to the time when someone provided you with the best advice or opportunity that fundamentally shaped your career. Was it a...
Let’s face it, 2020 was a hard year for everyone. But, it was especially hard for us entrepreneurs and business owners around the globe. Of course, you don’t need me to remind you of all of the adjustments you had to make this year. Sure, 2020 just couldn’t cut business owners a break. But, 2021...
Leaders know that every person needs something a little different from their supervisors. Great leaders adjust their leadership approaches to customize to what their people need. Some people need more encouragement, while others need to be left alone. Some people need frequent feedback, while...
Practical tips to optimize time and impact. There is a definite theme of saying YES! in most of my posts. I believe in the power of yes before we are ready, yes when we aren’t sure, yes when we are nervous, and generally taking action proactively (saying yes to ourselves) and being helpful or...
Video responses to set questions, online games that measure a person’s traits and skills: The future of interviews is coming to a wider variety of professions in the pandemic. So much of our work lives has moved online during the pandemic: group meetings, chats with the boss — even interviewing...
Employers can't afford to have high turnover, which is why employee retention is so important. Employee turnover can get extremely costly if companies don't treat their employees correctly. To retain top talent, you have to offer more than a competitive strategy; you must keep employees engaged,...
Attracting the strongest remote workers begins with your approach to writing a remote job description. Here are 8 things you must include. According to a new FlexJobs survey of people who have been working remotely during the pandemic, 65% would prefer to work remotely full-time post-pandemic,...
A three-pronged framework can help you create an effective onboarding process that enables new hires to learn and then apply what they know to their work. I worked for pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc. for 18 years, but I will never forget my first day. I was very excited when I arrived at work,...
Your most savvy job hunters may not include newly developed soft skills or evidence of “micro-learning” on the typical one-pager of work experience. By September this year, 1 in 3 Americans no longer worked for the same employer they started with at the beginning of 2020. Job markets are shifting...
There is no shortage of quotes about success in business. “A vision without a strategy remains an illusion.” ... “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” ... “Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.” ... The list goes on and each has merit. Yet none of them work without talented...
We are not taught how to learn in school, we are taught how to pass tests. The spacing effect is a far more effective way to learn and retain information that works with our brain instead of against it. Find out how to use it here. Every perception is to some degree an act of creation, and every...
As a leader, I have never been a fan of update meetings and they are even more problematic in a virtual environment where everyone already has Zoom fatigue and not enough hours in the day. Everybody has sat through one of these update meetings; a group of key managers gathers to be walked through...