Ben Eubanks over at Lighthouse Research and Advisory has written a fascinating white paper on transparency. Transparency in Compensation: Trends and Best Practices, underwritten by salary.com, is a thoughtful and interesting discussion of the impact of different levels of transparency in the workplace – from…
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Are You Investing In Your Career?
“I don’t read this crap. When someone gives me an article to read, I just say yes I will. I don’t read anything anymore. When I leave work, the last thing on my mind is HR.” This was from one…
How to Become An Employer of Choice This Year
Being an employer of choice means top applicants are eager to work for you, competitors envy your employees, and your most talented workers stay with your company for years and years. Given the competitive job market, combined with the new-normal…
3 Ways The ‘Best Places to Work’ Ignite Engagement
If business leaders refuse to settle for second best in consumer satisfaction, then it should also be unacceptable to hold back from becoming one of the best places to work. Fighting for the status of best places to work means…
Get Those Goals Down to a Final Four
If you are a college basketball fan like I am, when you hear the words “Final Four,” you smile. I hope that, after reading and applying what I am sharing here, a satisfying smile will come to your face when…
Why Learning to Delegate Is So Important For You and the Team
Note: This is the third in a series of interviews with industry leading scholars, CEOs, founders and consultants on the subject of managed. The interviews were conducted by Rob Cahill, CEO of the management-training and education firm Jhana. Find the first…
What Every New Manager Should Know
Note: This is the second in a series of interviews conducted by Rob Cahill, CEO of the management-training and education firm Jhana, with industry leading scholars, CEOs, founders and consultants on the topic of management. This week, he interviews Simon Cooper,…
Help Your People Get What They Want
Here are six questions you should ask your best people regularly: Where do you want to be career-wise one year from now? What are the two or three things that need to happen to make this a reality? What is…
How One Company Makes Lateral Moves A Win-Win
It is no surprise that job-hopping has become the new normal for millennials. A recent Gallup poll found that 21% of millennials report changing jobs within the last year, which is more than three times the number of non-millennials. According…
Hiring Wisdom: When Hiring Teens, Hire Their Parents Too
Because we live in a world of “helicopter parents” (parents who hover over and are involved in everything their children do) and because the number one reason teenagers quit or get fired is for not being able to work the hours…
The Logical Lessons Managers Can Learn From Mr. Spock
Editor’s Note: As I wrap up my time as Editor of TLNT — today is my last day — I wanted to share some of my favorite posts from over the years. Here’s one from February 2015. Mr. Spock has died. He lived…
The Secret To Business and Workplace Success? It’s Getting Stuff Done
Editor’s Note: As I wind down my stint as Editor of TLNT — Friday is my last day — I wanted to share some of my favorite posts from over the years. Here’s one from April 2013. Sometimes, the most complicated questions…
As Google Found Out, It Takes a Lot Of Work to Really Hire Smarter
As much as we might not like to admit it, our career paths are heavily influence by sheer luck and happenstance, i.e., knowing someone who can give us a referral, or simply being in the right place at the right…
A Growing Challenge: Getting Employers Ready for Legal Marijuana
I just read an interesting report from Assurex Global, titled Workplace Impacts of Marijuana Legalization, that opened up my eyes to a growing employer challenge. If you don’t live in – or have employees in – the states of Washington,…
There’s No Quick and Easy Fix to Building a Successful Workforce
I recently stumbled across a blog post titled, After years of intensive analysis, Google discovers the key to good teamwork is being nice. I knew that Google had initiated a longitudinal study called Project Oxygen in 2009 to identify key leadership competencies. I…
Doing The Tough Stuff: What Managers Can Learn From (Gulp!) Kim Kardashian
Editor’s Note: As I wind down my stint as Editor of TLNT — this is my last week — I wanted to share some of my favorite posts from over the years. Here’s one from November 2011. It’s troubling what passes…
The AAA Approach To Getting the Best Work Out of People
If you are a manager or leader, it’s no doubt obvious to you that your ability to elicit the best from others plays a major role in your ability to deliver results. If your team resists your feedback, your ideas,…
Hiring Wisdom: Are You Hiring For Talent, or For Skills and Experience?
Human knowledge is now doubling every 12 months. This means that 50 percent of what you now know will be out of date in a year. Just to bring it home, let’s imagine you need open heart surgery. How would…
When It Comes to Career, It’s Up to Every Employee to Stay Relevant
“We didn’t do anything wrong, but somehow, we lost.” Upon saying that, all his management team, himself included, sadly teared up. This was the statement from the CEO of Nokia at a press conference to announce that Nokia was being…
9 Employee Retention Statistics That Will Make You Sit Up And Pay Attention
Editor’s Note: Readers sometimes ask about past TLNT articles, so every Friday we republish a Classic TLNT post. Retention in the workplace is in a predicament — the revolving door is circulating faster, and the organizations struggling with this are on…