Category: Retaining Top Talent

Does Your Company Have A Bad Reputation In the Market?

Q. A few years back our company had a bad reputation in the industry. Since then we have changed management and most of the issues are long gone, but our reputation still lingers. We have been told this is affecting our ability to hire people. Recruiters have told us some candidates won’t go forward after [...]

Thursday January 19th, 2012 in Employer Branding, Retaining Top Talent, Transition and On-boarding | No Comments »

Your Reputation Can Impact Hiring Top Talent

We were retained to conduct a search for a VP of Marketing. The position had been open for more than six months, during which time the company had interviewed ten people who showed little interest in the position or the company. In fact, one offer had been turned down. At first glance this seemed strange, [...]

Thursday December 8th, 2011 in Hiring and Retention Trends, Retaining Top Talent, Success Factor Methodology | No Comments »

How Small Companies Can Compete Against Larger Companies For Talent

Q. We are a small growing company. How do we compete for talent with larger companies, since we can’t pay as much as they do? In my search practice I have placed people in small and large companies. The main issue is rarely compensation. In fact, if that is the primary issue then you will [...]

Thursday October 20th, 2011 in Company Culture, Hiring Methodology or Process, Hiring Mistakes, Leadership, Non-monetary rewards | No Comments »

Booster Shot to Find Top Talent Through Social Recruiting

Are you ready for a booster shot in the arm to finding top talent? In delivering our brand new program on Social Recruiting to a Vistage Group, I was struck by how comfortable everyone was with social media, but had not yet started using these common sites and tools, like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter, for [...]

Wednesday August 3rd, 2011 in Retaining Top Talent | No Comments »

Reducing Turnover Without An HR Department

Question:  We have a lot of turnover, what would you suggest to help reduce it? We don’t have an HR department. In our experience, turnover generally starts with a bad hire. A bad hire often starts by not properly defining the job and limited sourcing techniques that don’t bring the best candidates to you. One [...]

Thursday June 9th, 2011 in Hiring Frustrations, Hiring Methodology or Process, Retaining Top Talent | No Comments »

What Have You Done to Develop Your Team?

Lack of training, development, and growth is one of the primary reasons your best talent might walk out the door on you sooner than you think! Last week I presented to a group of CEOs who were shocked that I was suggesting they spend any time with their direct reports talking about development, training, engagement, [...]

Wednesday April 20th, 2011 in Leadership, Retaining Top Talent | No Comments »

Are You Playing the Game of Let’s Give it Another 30 days?

Ready to cringe? Ready to seek a big rock to hide under due to complete embarrassment? Here’s the scenario – the embarrassment factor comes when you realize you’ve been playing this game. You’ve hired what you believe to be a “rockstar” performer for your team. Unfortunately, it’s not panning out to be true (which studies [...]

Tuesday March 29th, 2011 in Accepting Mediocrity, Hiring Mistakes | 2 Comments »

Do you Inspire Others to Self-Motivate?

I am firm believer that you cannot motivate others – they need to self-motivate. In looking back through my archive of motivational articles, I re-stumbled across this blog post on inspiring others by Scott Ginsberg. Scott wrote an article on his blog “Hello My Name is Scott” titled “The Matt Foley Guide to Motivating The [...]

Saturday March 26th, 2011 in Interviewing, Leadership, Retaining Top Talent | No Comments »

Do Your Employees Trust You?

In numerous studies, surveys, and research, employees indicate over and over that trusting their immediate supervisor is one of the most important elements of their job satisfaction. Can you honestly say that your direct reports trust you? Do their direct reports trust them? How do you know? Do you cross your fingers hoping they trust [...]

Tuesday November 23rd, 2010 in Hiring and Retention Trends, Non-monetary rewards | 2 Comments »

A+B+C = Top Talent. Defining A,B,C.

Top talent = doing the right things, the right way, the first time + ability to get the most from others + intuitive ability to think and work strategically. Looking deeper into this equation: A) Do the right things, the right way, the first time deals with the tactical functions of the job. The basic [...]

Wednesday November 17th, 2010 in Accepting Mediocrity, Retaining Top Talent | 1 Comment »
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