Attracting, Retaining, and Repelling Talent

We’re very excited to introduce some great new content to our readers today. Over the coming year we’ll be sharing some fascinating video interviews from HR and management experts on key topics we often get asked about.

We’ve called these segments our HR’s Bold Thinkers series! First up is Lizz Pellet (@lizzpellet), popular SHRM author of The Cultural Fit Factor, Fellow at Johns Hopkins University, and [...]

Along with thousands of other industry watchers, we read the news of Research In Motion’s planned leadership change with great interest last week.

The announcement that the Blackberry maker’s co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis  and Jim Balsillie were stepping down from their shared top post was not only interesting because of what it did to the stock volume and value, or the buzz it generated, but also from the perspective of a strong, internally groomed successor [...]

Nurturing and sustaining employee engagement is one of the most important aspects of successfully managing a workforce.

This makes perfect sense since highly engaged employees tend to be high performers*. And we all want high performers on our teams.

On January 31st renowned author and engagement expert Chester Elton (@chesterelton) will lead a webcast based on his runaway best-seller “The Carrot Principle.”

During this webcast, Chester will demonstrate how purpose-based recognition can lead to higher [...]

Defining and refining your organization’s compensation management program is critical for boosting employee motivation and retention. However, properly rewarding top producers and allocating pay adjustments across an organization can be a complex, laborious and error-prone task.

This CFO.com article provides a perfect example of the mistakes that can be made when it comes to compensation practices.

To avoid these compensation pitfalls, pay for performance policies and processes must be transparent and consistently executed.

Here are [...]

In an employment context, you might think that “addition by subtraction” has a rather ominous sound to it. In fact, if you read between the lines, it usually means someone is getting fired.

But not so fast.

Addition by subtraction is actually a good thing—and it has nothing to do with handing out pinks slips. Instead, it’s about becoming an exporter of talent—a topic that Mike Figliuolo, Managing Director, thoughtLEADERS, LLC discusses in his blog post,