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      Category: Human Resources Management

      02Jan
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      Part Three: Twenty-Seven Things You Can Do Right Now to Win the War for Talent: Retention
      By Richard Haddenin Employee Engagement, Human Resources Management, Retention

      Part Three: Twenty-Seven Things You Can Do Right Now to Win the War for Talent: Retention

      OK, I started this series of 3 articles (Part I – Recruiting, Part II – Onboarding, and this third part, on Retention), calling it 27 Things You Can Do Right…

      09Dec
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      Part Two - Twenty-Seven Things You Can Do Right Now to Win the War for Talent - Onboarding
      By Richard Haddenin Employee Engagement, Human Resources Management, Leadership, Recruiting, Retention

      Part Two - Twenty-Seven Things You Can Do Right Now to Win the War for Talent - Onboarding

      By Richard Hadden and Bill Catlette Onboarding new talent- when done well – is probably the smartest thing you can do to preserve your investment in recruiting (which was the…

      26Nov
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      Twenty-seven Things You Can Do Right Now to Win the War for Talent - Part One
      By Richard Haddenin Employee Engagement, Human Resources Management, Recruiting, Retention

      Twenty-seven Things You Can Do Right Now to Win the War for Talent - Part One

      How about if I don’t start this out by recounting how hard it is to find and keep workers right now? That would be only slightly less useful than an…

      27Jul
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      Time for Some Straight Talk About Returning to Onsite Work
      By Richard Haddenin Employee Engagement, Human Resources Management, Leadership, Recruiting, Retention, Working Remotely

      Time for Some Straight Talk About Returning to Onsite Work

      As employers move people back to onsite work, it’s important to consider that this is an employEE’s market, not an employER’s. Swimming against the tide of the asserted will of…

      22Feb
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      Childcare = Infrastructure
      By Bill Catlettein Coaching, Employee Engagement, Human Resources Management, Recruiting, Retention

      Childcare = Infrastructure

      As much as businesses depend upon electricity, reliable digital signal, mail, roads, bridges, and airports to do our thing, we also rely on the availability of talented labor in sufficient…

      29Oct
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      Getting Serious About Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
      By Bill Catlettein Coaching, Human Resources Management, Leadership, Recruiting, Retention

      Getting Serious About Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

      In the aftermath of George Floyd’s death, corporate America has professed fresh interest in the subject of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI). I’m heartened by that, and especially so to…

      30Aug
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      Promote Team Building by Improving the Workplace
      By Bill Catlettein Coaching, Employee Engagement, Human Resources Management, Meeting Goals

      Promote Team Building by Improving the Workplace

      by K. Baker With more companies struggling to stay profitable, employers have increased their efforts to build stronger teams. While a capable team isn’t made overnight, it can be created…

      12Mar
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      On Baseball, Long Hair, Married Priests, HR, and the "Department of No"
      By Bill Catlettein Human Resources Management, Leadership

      On Baseball, Long Hair, Married Priests, HR, and the "Department of No"

      The sports press was abuzz this week about something that didn’t involve balls, strikes, birdies, or 3-pointers. Rather, it was about hair, specifically the prolific red locks belonging to NY Yankees rookie…

      03Feb
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      It's Not About the Phones
      By Richard Haddenin Employee Engagement, Human Resources Management, Leadership

      It's Not About the Phones

      If I hear this question one more time… I won’t be surprised. “How do we get these people to get off their phones and get their work done?” First point: it’s…

      16Jan
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      All Millennials Are...Different
      By Richard Haddenin Employee Engagement, Human Resources Management, Leadership

      All Millennials Are...Different

      Years ago, I participated in a diversity workshop that featured an exercise called “All Iowans are Naive”, the object of which was to expose the fallacy of stereotypes. And fallacious…

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