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      Category: Employee Engagement

      21Sep
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      Tightening the Connection with Remotely Based Teammates
      By Bill Catlettein Coaching, Communication, Employee Engagement, Human Resources Management, Leadership, Working Remotely

      Tightening the Connection with Remotely Based Teammates

      Remotely based workers certainly CAN become detached from their teams and their organization’s culture. But they don’t HAVE to be. Leaders play in big part in tightening the connection.

      30Aug
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      Being a Harry Truman Boss
      By Richard Haddenin Employee Engagement, Leadership

      Being a Harry Truman Boss

      President Harry Truman was, according to his White House staff, a great boss. Let’s see what he did that we can emulate to get the same kind of Discretionary Effort…

      13Jul
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      Can We Resume the Beatings Yet?
      By Richard Haddenin Employee Engagement, Leadership, Recruiting, Retention, War for Talent

      Can We Resume the Beatings Yet?

      The war for talent is far from over. Employers who relax measures to attract and retain the best talent will fall behind their competitors for talent.

      28Apr
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      Success Lesson From Apple's Leaders
      By Bill Catlettein Communication, Employee Engagement

      Success Lesson From Apple's Leaders

      by Bill Catlette 4/28/23 • memphis • (2 minutes) Jason Aten has a piece in the current issue of INC Magazine* profiling one attribute that is instrumental in Tim Cook’s…

      04Apr
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      See Ya! Saying Goodbye in the Workplace… It’s About How You Make Them Feel
      By Bill Catlettein Communication, Employee Engagement, Human Resources Management, Leadership

      See Ya! Saying Goodbye in the Workplace… It’s About How You Make Them Feel

      by Bill Catlette 4/4/23 • Memphis (2-minute read) Firing people is hard, but let’s not try to make it easy. (Yes, you read that correctly.) Reasonable, mature people understand that…

      14Feb
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      RTO Mandates: How to Make Recruiting and Retention Even Harder
      By Richard Haddenin Employee Engagement, Human Resources Management, Leadership, Recruiting, Retention, War for Talent, Working Remotely

      RTO Mandates: How to Make Recruiting and Retention Even Harder

      Let’s get right to the point. Consider two groups, A and B. Group A: Knowledge workers who want the option to work remotely, or hybrid. Group B: Managers who want…

      09Jan
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      People Need the Right Tools to do their Best Work
      By Richard Haddenin Customer Experience, Employee Engagement, Leadership

      People Need the Right Tools to do their Best Work

      Southwest Airlines’ winter 2022 meltdown was a failure of tools, a failure of systems. And it was almost as bad for their employees as for their customers.

      22Nov
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      What Elon Musk is Proving About Leading People
      By Richard Haddenin Employee Engagement, Human Resources Management, Leadership, Retention, War for Talent

      What Elon Musk is Proving About Leading People

      OK, I know Elon Musk is as easy a target as we’ve ever had. But if you will, please allow me this irony-laced observation: The person with more access than…

      01Nov
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      Where did all the workers go? The last four reasons there don't seem to be enough workers
      By Richard Haddenin Employee Engagement, Human Resources Management, Recruiting, Retention, War for Talent

      Where did all the workers go? The last four reasons there don't seem to be enough workers

      In the first three installments of this series (July 12, Sept 12, and Oct 25), we tried to shine some light on the headscratcher of the year, “Where did everyone…

      25Oct
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      Where Did All the Workers Go? Three More Reasons There Don't Seem to be Enough Workers
      By Richard Haddenin Employee Engagement, Human Resources Management, War for Talent

      Where Did All the Workers Go? Three More Reasons There Don't Seem to be Enough Workers

      The gap between labor supply and demand continues to vex US employers, even as talk of recession and high profile layoffs pepper the news. And yet as we move into…

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