Tag: Research
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Mistrust and the Disengaged Workforce
Let’s start off with a story. And just as a heads up, it’s not necessarily a happy one. Since 2009, Interaction Associates, a consulting firm based in Boston that advises on human resources and company leadership, has run a survey that measures how much employees trust the leaders who run their businesses. As of this year, the…
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How to Reduce Impact from Retiring Employees
One of the topics that sometimes keeps me awake at night is knowledge. The sheer amount of knowledge in the minds of our staff members is staggering. In the past few years we’ve had a few highly competent people attempt to retire, and we’ve had a great strategy in place to reduce the impact. Here’s…
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Career Readiness Skills, Video Games, and ACT Scores
Video games are not a substitute for career readiness skills. They teach us nothing about hard work. They are not a magic tool to prepare the next generation to take the reigns in workplace leadership roles. Recently an international speaker, Mike Walsh, came to Huntsville to give a presentation. I didn’t see the presentation, but…
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25% of supervisors are younger than their staff
For most of us, it’s not reality, but having a young supervisor is obviously a phenomenon that is fairly widespread. At first glance, I’m thinking, “Yeah! Go for it young people!” And then I realized I could be one of those who has a younger manager one day; it made me stop and think. It…