The US tight labor market is requiring companies across several industries to raise pay to attract new, experienced workers. This strategy creates pay compression for existing workers — meaning, they are now underpaid — and leaves them deeply dissatisfied. To…
Category: Team Effectiveness
Is your employer brand ready for a labor shortage in 2021?
A recruiter told me last week that job ghosting has started up again, even after her company moved its pay levels to market competitive levels. The prediction I made to her is that by August, the US will have more…
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Tips from a Hollywood comic: Address stress in the workforce
When one of your children grows up to be a Hollywood comic, you get used to your parenting style and idiosyncrasies being the fodder of jokes in comedy clubs across the country and post-pandemic online. My daughter is a Millennial…
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How to find the sweet spot between micromanaging and too hands-off?
Behaviorism has long taught us that immediate and direct feedback is critical to reinforce the behaviors and outcomes we want. It has been the source of breakthrough books on leadership, such as the One-Minute Manager. But too much of a…
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Seven practical lessons to make a hybrid workforce engaged, productive, and innovative!
Executive teams deserve high praise for their excellent leadership implementing safe COVID-19 policies, complying with new laws, and the quick pivot to remote work in mid-March 2020. As one said to me, “It all went smoother than we thought. Now,…
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5 Predictions About the Future of Work for 2021
Last year ended with the FDA approval of Pfizer’s COVID19 vaccine and the vaccination of the first US health care workers on Monday, Dec. 14. The US still has several months of rising COVID19 infections and deaths before 60 percent…
Empowering resilience on this Thanksgiving
This is a year to forget. In 2020, we have witnessed more Americans die from the pandemic than many of our wars combined, more unemployment than the Great Depression, social and racial unrest with severely divided politics that we have…
Three steps to improve employee resiliency during COVID19 based on new science
The biggest news from last week’s virtual HR Tech Conference was not about tech. It was about research from Marcus Buckingham on how companies can boost the resiliency of their workforces. Resilience is independent of employee engagement, according to Buckingham,…
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Insightful podcast on HR strategy, technology and data literacy
It was a pleasure speaking with Ira Wolfe and Keith Campagna about important topics for HR today: strategy, technology and data literacy! It is easier than you think. Watch the podcast of our September 9th discussion at this link. https://lnkd.in/dFbhtrE
ReINVENTHR webcast: 3 robust strategies to crush today’s crises
In this Orange County ReINVENTHR webcast, I present 3 robust strategies to crush today's crises. I remind HR leaders that HR has the empirical research, predictive models, and digital technology to crush it! The full REINVENT HR webinar, "HR…
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