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How to Have the Difficult Conversations Most Leaders Hate
It wasn’t my first difficult conversation as a manager, but it was one of the toughest. At the time, I was working as a consultant on a program for a large, household-name company. The team I led consisted of project managers who oversaw lots of data specialists and other technical types, all...
Goldman Sachs Says Young U.S. Workers Are Plotting Early Retirements
A survey signals that younger employees may also need more realistic expectations about how much money they’ll need in later life. They’ve only just entered the workforce, but a significant swath of the newest crop of U.S. employees are already making plans for an early exit. A full 25% of Gen Z...
Job Candidates are Ghosting Employers. Here’s How Companies Can Combat No-Shows
Home health provider Interim HealthCare of the Upstate currently has 51 open positions it's looking to fill. Since September, 17 candidates have canceled their interviews and 20 didn't even show up. Recruitment and retention tends to be difficult in the home health care industry, but it's been...
Gifts of the Great Resignation: Evolving the CEO Mindset on Talent
Call it what you will — The Great Resignation, The Great Reframing, The Great Realignment — but know there is something dramatic afoot in the labor market. More Americans are quitting their jobs than ever before. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics tells us that 4.3 million people, fully 2.9% of...
40% of Americans Would Rather Clean Their Toilets Than Commute to Work: Poll
Tens of millions of Americans have strong feelings about not returning to their offices full time—or commuting to get there. How strong? According to a report released today by RingCentral, 40% would rather clean their toilet at home than commute to their brick-and-mortar or other pre-pandemic...
Biden Admin Considering Vaccine Mandate For Businesses With Fewer Than 100 Employees
OSHA rule for big businesses forces employees to be vaccinated or wear masks and get weekly COVID-19 tests. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) says it is "seeking comment" about whether businesses with fewer than 100 employees should be subject to the COVID-19 vaccine and...
Retirees Are ‘Unretiring’ — and That’s Good for the Labor Market
Key Points The “unretirement” rate, which measures those who switch from retirement to employment, has been accelerating, according to an analysis by Nick Bunker, an economist at Indeed. This is good news for the labor market, and speaks to improving public health and job-related factors like...
Millions of People Quit Their Jobs in the ‘Great Resignation’. Here Is Why It May Not Last Long
Key Points Over the past several months, a rapidly growing number of Americans left their jobs – more than 4.4 million alone in September. The move has become known as the “Great Resignation,” but the picture is more complicated. It all adds up to a jobs market in which people leaving their...
Don’t Soften Feedback
When I talk about balancing being directive and empowering as a leader, the distinction between being kind and being nice often comes up. Sometimes, folks who have to deliver hard-to-hear feedback soften it to the point where their teammate doesn’t clearly understand what they should do next. This...