Posts Tagged ‘Retention’
Q&A with Mike Matalone: How to hire and retain valuable workers
Mike Matalone is president of Excelsior, a human capital consulting firm that helps companies and CEOs to recruit, develop, manage and retain effective employees. SmartBrief interviewed Matalone on his leadership philosophy and how to make sure you are hiring the right people. An edited version of his answers follows. Describe your leadership philosophy. Leadership is about [...]
Companies aren’t really recruiting from competitors?
SmartPulse — our weekly reader poll in Smartbrief on Workforce — tracks feedback from leading managers and HR practitioners. We run the poll question each Wednesday in our e-newsletter. Last week, we asked: Do you try to recruit from competitors? No — if they come through our normal channels, that’s fine, 64% Yes — but [...]
Outsiders outcast when it comes to hiring preference
SmartPulse — our weekly reader poll in Smartbrief on Workforce — tracks feedback from leading managers and HR practitioners. We run the poll question each Wednesday in our e-newsletter. Last week, we asked: Does your company prefer internal hires over external candidates? Yes, we prefer the insiders, 47% No, we just treat them equally, 41% [...]
Live from #SHRM10: Rosetta Stone’s Duane Sider on the growing importance of language skills
I’m reporting live from the Society for Human Resource Management’s annual conference out in San Diego this week, and I met with Duane Sider, the director of learning for Rosetta Stone. I sat down with Sider to talk about some of the trends in hiring, career development and language skills. Some of his observations: The [...]
Much ado about turnover
SmartPulse — our weekly reader poll in SmartBrief on Workforce — tracks feedback from leading managers and HR practitioners. We run the poll question each Wednesday in our e-newsletter. Last week, we asked: How concerned are you about turnover in your organization? Not concerned about any turnover — 31% Somewhat concerned about certain types of [...]
How yesterday’s war for talent is still causing trouble
A few years ago, one of my favorite long-standing clients made a very stupid hire. The best thing that could have been said for this new guy’s competence was that he knew how to spell his name. The worst thing that could be said was that he made up for his incompetence with arrogance and [...]
Why we can’t neglect diversity
Heather R. Keller, owner of communication consulting firm Successfully Communicating, wants to remind organizations that promoting cultural diversity through communications is still vital to success in today’s globalized world. Keller recently spoke with SmartBrief’s Akoto Ofori-Atta to discuss the importance of diversity initiatives, and what companies risk if they chose to ignore it. An edited [...]
3 reasons employees will leave your company after the recession
Today’s guest post is by Lance Haun, vice president of outreach for MeritBuilder, the main guy over at YourHRGuy.com and a member of the SmartBrief on Workforce Advisory Board. He’s been in the human resources space for almost seven years and (unfortunately) has experience with both sides of the recession. When I first entered corporate [...]
