Workforce Planning
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Labor Shortages: Myth and Reality
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There are two types of labor shortages currently under examination. The first is a shortage in the current labor supply, and then there’s the much feared future labor supply…
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What’s the Difference Between Employee Engagement and Commitment?
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Thanks to Terry for pointing me to an article Regina Miller wrote. In it, Regina speculates at the different definitions of commitment versus engagement. It seems that the world…
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Understanding the Contributors to Employee Engagement
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The May 2007 issue of HBR gives us a broader view of employee engagement and defines some of the contributors for it. Not surprisingly, employee engagement is not made…
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Management as a Productivity Barrier
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Peter Drucker: “So much of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to do work.” A while back I had a post around “1 Jerk…
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Helicopter Parenting and Management Styles
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Much conversation has been made about Generation Y Milennials and their desire and ability to enter the workforce with a bang. We’ve been trying to figure out how to…
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HBR: GenX versus Baby Boomers
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We keep talking about Gen Y Milennials. They are after all the next unknown generation of workers, and they are “different.” However, we can’t ignore the Gen X’ers either. …
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Keeping Your CEO’s Sleep Deprived
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One of the favored questions going around the vendor circles the last few years is “What keeps you awake at night?” Obviously they only ask this when they are…
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Shifting from Higher Education to the Workplace
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So you get in college these days, and in addition to the great classroom experiences, you have great on-line discussion tools where you can post questions and solve problems…
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HR Strategy – What Really Matters?
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Harvard Business Review recently published that “Most traditional HR performance metrics – such as employee turnover rates, average time to fill open positions, and total hours of training provided…
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Understanding the Millennial – Crisis at the Gate
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It seems that teen unemployment is at an all time high. While they might have all manner of other activities going on, the lack of employment is a critical…
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Understanding the Millennial – The Incredible Opportunity
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So perhaps you have not encountered this yet, but the millennial generation is different. What’s a millennial? In short, they are the upcoming generation that is currently graduating from…
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Plateauing, Multiple Career Ladders, Engaging Employees
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Knowledge@Wharton wrote a few months ago about a “new” phenomenon within middle manager ranks. A number of men and women in middle management are increasingly reluctant to take the…
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The Evolution of the Workforce
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It seems I make a point of talking about the millennial generation (those emerging into the workforce now), and how there seems to be a perception that they are…
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Communicating with a Millennial (Part 2: Dubs needs friends)
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There was a fair amount of conversation regarding this “millennial” generation last week, some of it controversial and with minor disagreement. There doesn’t seem to be differences in that…
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Communicating with a Millennial
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I’ve spent a lot of time trying to understand what I’ve been calling the millennials, others have been calling Gen Y. I think we all understand that there’s a…
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Google Talent Acquisition innovations
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The NY Times ran an article about Google using a new algorithm to search through their 100,000 resumes they receive every month. Initially I was really excited to read…
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Globalization, Economic Scale, and Talent – The Realities of Asia
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Michael Specht pointed me at this video link where he drew out the following thought: “the 25% of China population with the highest IQ is larger than the total…
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Educating for Innovation
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Once again, from the Talent UnConference (TalUnCon) hosted by Electronic Arts on January 25, 2006. ((From the Talent UnConference, January 25, 2007. Ideas expressed in this post may be…
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Recruiting Recruiters as a Leading Economic Indicator
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There was some serious conversation at the Talent UnConference (TalUnCon) hosted by Electronic Arts on January 25. Specifically, the Talent Planning sessions focused on understanding economic indicators as it…
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Prosperity Growth and the Satisfaction Gap
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Your grandfather probably worked to live. Your mother and father most likely fired to make a living. Your children will be working to define a life. – Jeff Hunter,…