10 Things Your Employees Aren’t Telling You

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A great leader needs to drive forward and inspire the team to focus ahead in order to achieve success. But these leaders must connect empathetically with the individual team members and realize that not all followers think like a leader or even want to do so. Still those same team members are often afraid to express their real thoughts for fear of negative repercussions from the leader and other colleagues. Here are 10 thoughts you should make it a point to surface.

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Retaining Talent In A Challenging Economy

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In this highly competitive market for capable employees, employers need to consider fresh ways to motivate and retain their best performers. Truly accomplished staff is hard to find and even harder to keep. Provide enough perks, promote enough benefits, and soon employees will see these incentives as essentials. They become so core to the work experience that the employee can’t imagine leaving them behind for a new employer.

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Why Hiring Managers Don’t Read Your Resume?

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Here are 7 reasons why hiring managers don’t read your resume. If one or more apply to you, change your resume to make it compelling!

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The Biggest Mistakes C-Level Candidates Make When Seeking A New Job

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Original article can be found at http://goo.gl/GJGByJ After interviewing a string of unprepared senior level executives for various jobs, I started wondering what was going on. In one such case, I was interviewing candidates for an officer position, which required a minimum of 15+ years of prior experience. After several interviews in a row where […]

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It’s Time to Redefine the Rules of Employee Engagement

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In an era where employee engagement is a top concern, yet levels of engagement remain stagnant at best, it’s time to rethink the way we actually interact with our employees. Here are four ways we structure our employee feedback processes so they model true employee engagement.

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Hiring Smart Rather than Managing Tough is EASY

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As the hiring manager, it should be your absolute #1 priority to hire the right people. Too often, we see companies wasting enormous amounts of time managing C players, rather than investing in making smart hires. How do you avoid hiring the wrong people, and ultimately hire ONLY the right people? Here are 5 things the BEST hiring managers are doing.

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8 Common Cover Letter Mistakes To Avoid

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We live in a world where 90% of hiring managers don’t read cover letters, yet 53% of employersadmit that they prefer candidates who send a cover letter. Meaning, your cover letter is positively acknowledged, but it probably won’t get read.?So if nobody’s reading it, why bother? Because anything that sets you apart from the candidates you’re up against is an absolute must.

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8 Detailed Examples Of Giving Employee Feedback

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It’s amazing how much psychology and subtleties are involved in giving feedback. While some of this might seem like overkill, it’s really not. People are more sensitive than you might think, so it’s important to be compassionate when giving your feedback. Here are 8 specific examples of giving employee feedback.

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Stay Connected: How Everyday Leaders Engage People

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Creating a fully engaged team has a real impact on your results. Organizations in the upper echelons of employee engagement beat their counterparts in productivity, profitability, and customer ratings — in some cases by more than 20 percent. They have lower absenteeism, less shrinkage, fewer accidents, and better quality. An engaged workforce always comes back to culture, and culture always comes down to leadership at every level of your organization. Here are nine things to do every day that keep your team providing the discretionary effort you need to thrive.

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