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 them to come back to the office, issuing Return to Office Mandates. In today’s labor market, Group A outweighs Group B by a staggering margin. […]
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.
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 anyone else on earth to real-time news about social and economic trends apparently missed all of the tweets about workers being in the labor supply-demand […]
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 go?”, as the labor market certainly feels tighter than ever before, both to employers and consumers. And numbers don’t lie. We still have too many […]
Quiet Quitting – The Latest Thing (That’s Been Around Forever)
Maybe it’s the alliteration. The fact that it makes a catchy hashtag. Whatever it is, talk of #quietquitting just won’t seem to quit, quietly or otherwise. We’ve delayed our weighing in on it until some of the furor subsided, but the fact is that we (and many others) have been talking and writing about quiet […]
Leader Development – Now What?
by Bill Catlette 20 June, 2022 • memphis In a recent LinkedIN post https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/jack-pretty-damn-good-jeff-immelt/, former GE Chairman & CEO Jeff Immelt paid tribute to his predecessor, Jack Welch. “Jack invested in leadership. He was a good coach… demanding and fair. GE produced a lot of good leaders” which they did. That’s not gratuitous praise. Like […]
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 topic of our post on November 26, 2021). In fact, we see onboarding as such a central part of the whole recruiting process, that for […]
Making Hybrid Work
The hybrid workforce model is the future of the workplace. Let’s get it right. Here’s how.
I’m Just a Bartender
In stark contrast to the somber swearing in of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to the offices of President and VP respectively, the world witnessed with combined amusement and respect the diligence of an as yet unidentified man, some say a Bill Barr look-alike, dubbed “Podium Sanitizer Guy”* who sprung into action and quietly but […]
Strengthening The Leadership Bench
Nov 8, 2020 • memphis Joe Biden has emerged atop the U.S. presidential scrum not because he has the market cornered on brains and good ideas, but because, in contrast to a man who has proven wholly unfit to lead, his behavior reflects the character, temperament, tone and record of one who more likely is. […]