Are you having trouble recruiting and retaining young talent? Recruitment has been an ongoing concern for human resources for a number of years, particularly with regards to the younger generation. It has recently come to light that more and more…
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To Build a Better Business, Hire Ramen Eaters
To build a corporate culture that’s as energized and agile as a startup, hire ramen eaters. “I meet these ramen eaters everyday,” says Amy Neale, VP, senior business leader with Mastercard. “These people are tough, ready to hustle and eager…
Millennials Want What We Want (They Just Ask For It)
You know what the problem is with millennials? It’s those “constant demands for feedback, or flexibility or just acknowledgement for work.” When you put it that way, “Is what they are looking for so unrealistic?” asks Liz Buckley. “Don’t we…
What Millennials and Machines Are Doing to HR
The way your company thinks about and manages its workers needs to change. In some sectors, recruiters are already having trouble filling jobs that don’t appeal to millennials, while in others, technological advancements such as sentient tools are making human…
Give Them Purpose by Giving Them a Fight Club
Many of today’s organizations find themselves in a death-spiral, speeding towards mediocrity. Worse, many a re already on the slippery slope to irrelevance. The free fall is fueled by the inability to attract, develop and retain the best talent of…
How HR Can Save Us from Employee Engagement’s #EpicFail
Our attempts to improve engagement have been an epic fail. This, according to the most recognized organization involved in this arena. In the Worldwide Employee Engagement Crisis, the Gallup Organization authors state: “Though there have been some slight ebbs and…
RIG Your Young Workers For Employment Success
Think about this for a moment: Creativity is one of the soft skills most desired by employers. Yet too often, when a young worker comes up with a creative idea, a manager’s first reaction is to say why it won’t…
Are You Delivering the Development Your Team Wants?
In “Millennials Want Jobs to Be Development Opportunities,” the Gallup Organization reports the following: Development is a top factor in retaining millennials. Millennials value development more than other generations do (87% to 69%). The majority of millennials are not getting…
Workers Expect Employers to Take a Stand
One of the more striking images from the NFL protests Sunday was of owners standing arm in arm with their players during the national anthem. The optics of millionaire and billionaire team owners on the field in solidarity was even…
4 Steps Before Employees Can Bring Their Pet to Work
Without a doubt, pets have become true members of the family. No longer just “man’s best friend”, but “fur babies” that we love, care for and protect. A Fortune-Morning Consult Poll reported that 76% of pet owners consider their animals…
We Want Meaningful Work and a Meaningful Paycheck
I’m going to stop fighting. For years I’ve been fighting morons who claim that millennials would rather do “meaningful work” than making money. That is actually one big lie, I believe perpetuated by employers who don’t want to pay market…
You’ve Empowered Them, But They’re Not Delivering. Now What?
When I discuss employee engagement, one of the main points I generally preach is that employee engagement and employee empowerment go hand-in-hand. People simply do not engage with things that they don’t feel control over or ownership of! According to SHRM, 70%…
Could Better Tech Help Public Agencies Recruit Millennials?
The biggest generation in U.S. history is now the largest generation in today’s labor market, yet in the public sector, millennials are a minority. Government has long been challenged in competing with the private sector for the best talent, but…
Gen Z Is Coming and They’ll Be Changing Your Culture Forever
There are numerous articles discussing millennials and employee engagement. Some people bemoan millennials and others tout them as invaluable additions to the workplace. However, it’s up to all of us to foster employee engagement. Any energy we expend complaining about…
Generation Z Is Coming. Will You Be Ready?
Recently at the SHRM conference, I had the pleasure of meeting Heather Bussing’s son, Holden. As we all laughed and joked with this young man, we mentioned he was Gen Z, to which he replied: Has anyone even defined Gen…
5 Steps to Knowing and Keeping Your Best People
At the end of the first quarter of 2017, 45% of small businesses reported that they were unable to find qualified applicants to fill job openings. Our own research, Becoming A People Company, shows that growth can be particularly challenging…
Millennials and the 21st Century Principal-Agent Problem
The Principal – Agent Problem is alive and well. It is getting more and more difficult to inspire employees to act in the best interest of the company – and not themselves. Over the past 100 years, business schools have…
Why We Should Embrace the Millennial Mindset
Millennials. Employers have denounced them as a generation who require constant affirmation in order to get hard work out of them. But what if we have it all wrong? What if the secret to our techno-centric future is unequivocally tied…
Social Responsibility Can Be Your Secret Recruiting Weapon
Since 2015, millennials have made up the largest generation in the U.S. workforce. With the next class of millennials just graduating college, many organizations are looking to leverage every opportunity to secure top talent, and human resources professionals must be…
Turns Out, Millennials Actually Don’t Want Your Feedback
It’s conference season and I got a chance to see the ever-popular, Marcus Buckingham. Marcus has the great English accent, high energy and great leadership content to share. He’s strong every time I’ve seen him, going on way too many…