Straight Talk for CHROs for Retaining Nurses & Other First-Responders
SHRM and I are collaborating on a new book, aiming to re-direct companies to build entirely new cultures and identify new benefits coming out of the pandemic.
How to Keep Top Performers From Quitting During the Pandemic
SHRM and I are collaborating on a new book, aiming to re-direct companies to build entirely new cultures and identify new benefits coming out of the pandemic.
What Has Been the Pandemic’s Upside For You?
SHRM and I are collaborating on a new book, aiming to re-direct companies to build entirely new cultures and identify new benefits coming out of the pandemic.
The Very Good News Tucked Inside
The Washington Post recently combined with the University of Maryland to survey on Covid-19 issues and released their results regarding political approval ratings and predictions for when businesses should re-open. At first this looked to me like more of the…
Telling Employees the Truth About COVID-19 Builds Trust
Employees who are still coming to work are rightly fearful and are listening to management’s every word as though it is coming through a megaphone. Today is the day to communicate truths as we know them, both frequently and compassionately.
If My Career Rested on Just One Relationship, This Is It
Mentor is too weak, too common a word to describe Bob Bowen. I genuinely love the man. Bob was my first boss in my only “real” job, climbing up the HR ranks for a regional banking company. Now long retired,…
Why “Team Leaders” Matter
The organization that leveraged team leaders cut turnover by greater than 30%, while the other company saw much smaller reductions.
Would Bears Get Stay Interviews Right?
The images you see here look fresh off the internet, but they were actually taken last Wednesday in our yard. From inside, of course. We live in the one zip code in Florida most known for its black bear population,…
Tough Issues Training:
Employees might surface an issue that is real to them, and one we cannot find an immediate fix for. Tough issues training is key for leaders to manage expectations.
Stay Interviews Can’t Save Everyone, But Who Can They Save?
A recent Forbes article told the sorry story of a manager losing a top employee out of the blue. One of those “everything seemed OK and then he quit” examples every manager has endured. I have to wonder how effectively the manager in our story asked about the employee’s interests and needs.