The impending crisis in employee retention

ToExitI’ve been looking for indicators of an emerging trend in employee retention issues, and a couple of recent studies reported in Workforce Management and The Wall Street Journal are putting it on the radar screen.

I believe that we will see a rapidly accelerating crisis emerging in 2010 around employee retention.  What’s underlying this?

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This company's core values

NSEWI’ve talked with a number of people about creating a values-based company, and became convinced that this would help me to create the kind of company that I will be proud of.

Often a company’s “values” or “mission statement” look like they were created by a committee, and end up losing their impact.  More importantly, you see a significant difference between the stated values and how people really behave.  You get the impression that it’s mostly a marketing exercise.

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The crisis of character

Gus LeeI had a chance to attend a fantastic workshop this morning, led by the incomparable Gus Lee.  Never heard of him?  He’s a leader in challenging people to find and develop a core of character in their lives.

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Social media to expand your business

Online social media are all the rage these days – everybody wants to know how to use this new technology to improve business results.  I’ve been engaged in this myself for many years so it’s a bit surprising that it’s taken so long, but there’s good reasons for it.

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Building from possibilities

People ask me why I would use the word “possibilities” as the core message of my company.  Sounds lovely, but is it all that important?  Absolutely!

It’s a total shift in mindset.  Traditionally, we look to solve problems.  In order to do that, we have to define the core issue, use the boundaries of that issue to [...]

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