16 Key Ways To Motivate Your People
Everyone wants a happy, motivated and productive workplace. These simple steps will get you where you want to be.
Great people make great companies and great leaders make all the difference.
In business, we see the impact of great leaders such as Tony Hsieh, who took the helm of online shoe retailer Zappos.com from founder Nick Swinmurn. Under Hsieh’s leadership, the company grew from $1.6 million in sales in 2000 to more than $1 billion in sales in 2009.
Help Wanted: “Must Make An Immediate Impact”
What employers value most when it comes to new hires.
The hallmark of a successful recruitment process is the immediate impact of the new hires it brings into the organization. How quickly your new employees get up to speed and start contributing.
That’s according to a recent global study of 1,589 HR professionals conducted by Futurestep North America, a recruitment consultancy and reported recently in Talent Management magazine.
Two-thirds of respondents (67 percent) ranked new hire performance as the most or second-most important measure of success, followed by retention (35 percent) and line manager satisfaction (29 percent).
10 Great Reasons to Hire Older People
What it means for the employer, the workers, and the community.
According to a recent article in USNews.com, in a world where traditional retirement makes less and less sense, the need and desire of older people to retain or find meaningful jobs depends in part on overcoming bogus attitudes about older employees.
Smart and progressive employers get this. Sure, Google is probably not losing any sleep over failing to train septuagenarians about search-engine algorithms.
I Quit! Top 10 Reasons Why Employees Leave Their Job
A checklist for retaining your top people.
Whether it’s a high-profile tech company like Yahoo! or a more established conglomerate like GE (my first job was at GE), or Home Depot, businesses large and small have a hard time keeping their best and brightest in house. Recently, GigaOM discussed the troubles at Yahoo! with a flat stock price, vested options for some of their best people, and the apparent free flow of VC dollars luring away some of their best people to do the start-up thing again.