We are at that magical time of year when the seniors are donning their Caps and Gowns and are anticipating the excitement of graduation and the anticipation of the future ahead of them. It is normal to feel some level of apprehension; it’s a big deal to head off on your own, whether that is off […]
We’ve all seen him and felt his presence. He is the magnanimous figure at the head of the corporate table and he is larger than life. He’s brilliant, charismatic and successful. He is also humble, warm and caring. His career began just like all of ours did. He started at the bottom; but for him, it was different. People noticed […]
Performance reviews of the past no longer work. Today’s video is to get you thinking of new ways to evaluate your employees. Most of our clients conduct yearly reviews and simply go over last year’s performance. They set goals for the New Year and then it’s back to work. Today’s employees want to have input […]
We have a new challenge in today’s workplace. This challenge is neither good nor bad; it simply is. This challenge is solving the friction being created by the value gap between two generations—the Baby Boomers and the Millennials—working together in today’s workplace. Why is this challenge more significant today? It started out with my parents’ […]
How can you align your values in order to hire (and retain) your best and brightest? I will go over a few key tips for you today. How many of you have hired someone that you thought would be just perfect only to discover that they just didn’t work out? I can’t tell you how […]
Talent and all the challenges around finding, hiring and retaining people is a very hot topic these days, as it should be. There are many opportunities we face, some immediate and some in the not too distant future. One we frequently observe and work with clients on is the generational values misalignment. This is […]
On June 2 I will have been in Executive search twenty years. Twenty years is a long time to do anything, especially being a “headhunter”. I hate that term by the way. Like most careers, it found me, I didn’t find it. I was working for a women’s clothing company out of North Carolina when […]
Finding great Construction talent is hard. Keeping them empowered, engaged and retaining them even harder. I called it the perfect storm. 2008-2010 many long tenured successful construction men and women hung up their hammers and went home. At the very same time, the colleges and technical schools were at an all time low in enrollment […]
This past week I was asked to speak at a Life Skills class at Appleton East High School. The class was made up of students with cognitive disabilities paired with students as mentors who may or may not have interest in a related health care field. It was heartwarming to watch the students work together. […]
In the past two weeks, I have had three family members end up in the hospital. Being 51, I guess part of that comes with the territory of aging. The funny thing about that is I remember as a teenager my Dad telling me to enjoy life because as you get older, time goes by […]