Building job-related simulations for candidates
I'm a huge fan of Hulu’s The Bear. I started watching it because I love Jeremy Allen White and anything set in Chicago, (two hours from where I grew up and ...
Recruiting the right people SHOULD be hard
Recruiting people should never be easy, and that's precisely the point. In last week's newsletter, I talked about the dehumanization of the workforce cause ...
A new employer first impressions
A friend started a new job this week. The job is fully remote but she is spending the first 3 days in the office. They gave her a desk/cubicle with her nam ...
The dehumanization of the workforce
$8.8 trillion dollars or 9% of the global GDP. That’s how much the Gallup Organization estimates our disengaged workforce is costing the economy. I’ve writ ...
Bad Behavior Part 4
In my last 3 posts I’ve talked about bad behavior and why so many managers and organizations let it slide (to their own and others’ determinants.) I want t ...
Bad Behavior Part 3
In my last 2 posts, I talked about the consequences of putting up with bad behavior can have. So why does this happen so frequently? Here are the top 7 thi ...
Bad Behavior Part 2
In yesterday’s post I wrote about my personal experience with bad behavior in a professional context and the cost that putting up with bad behavior. Today ...
Bad Behavior Part 1
Read Time: 3 minutes When I worked as a recruiter I heard many stories of people leaving their jobs because of bad behaviour on the part of their manager or colleagues.
On equipping managers to be better managers
Read Time: < 1 minute Gallup's State of the Global Workplace report is out. It's a sobering read. They argue that the world's GDP is going down which will make it more difficult to solve the challenges we are currently facing on a global basis.
ATTN: ALL ENGINEERING MANAGERS
In preparing for a leadership presentation to one of my engineering clients I went searching for updated stats on the skills shortage in the engineering in ...
Boomerang Employees
Would you welcome a Boomerang employee back? My poll from last week has almost closed and the responses have been incredibly consistent. There is almost an ...
