Recruiting people should never be easy, and that\’s precisely the point. In last week\’s newsletter, I talked about the dehumanization of the workforce caused by popular management styles, mentioning the legacies of Jack Welch and Frederick Taylor. Their emphasis on efficiency and performance resulted in dehumanizing the workforce, leading to substandard performance, low employee engagement, […]
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A friend started a new job this week. The job is fully remote but she is spending the first 3 days in the office. They gave her a desk/cubicle with her name on a nameplate – spelled wrong. Okay, she has a unique spelling to a common name. She\’s used to that and didn\’t think
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$8.8 trillion dollars or 9% of the global GDP. That’s how much the Gallup Organization estimates our disengaged workforce is costing the economy. I’ve written and spoken a lot about the role managers have to play in employee engagement (spoiler alert – it’s the single biggest cause). Today I’d like to talk about the erosion
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In my last 3 posts I’ve talked about bad behavior and why so many managers and organizations let it slide (to their own and others’ determinants.) I want to end this series by sharing a success story. In 1997 I managed the Austin office of Robert Half International. I hired a young recruiter who was
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In my last 2 posts, I talked about the consequences of putting up with bad behavior can have. So why does this happen so frequently? Here are the top 7 things that I see in organizations. • People don’t report it and instead blame themselves, thinking, “it’s just me” • People don’t want to make
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In yesterday’s post I wrote about my personal experience with bad behavior in a professional context and the cost that putting up with bad behavior. Today I’d like to talk about passing someone’s bad behavior onto another manager or company and the, literally devastating, consequences that can have. Have you ever passed along a problem
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When I worked as a recruiter I heard many stories of people leaving their jobs because of bad behaviour on the part of their manager or colleagues.
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Gallup\’s State of the Global Workplace report is out. It\’s a sobering read. They argue that the world\’s GDP is going down which will make it more difficult to solve the challenges we are currently facing on a global basis.
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In preparing for a leadership presentation to one of my engineering clients I went searching for updated stats on the skills shortage in the engineering industry. In 2021 Infrastructure Australia predicted that there could be a deficit of up to 105,000 qualified engineers by mid-2023. A quick glance at my calendar told me we have
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Would you welcome a Boomerang employee back? My poll from last week has almost closed and the responses have been incredibly consistent. There is almost an even split between those who say yes and those who say \’it depends\’. I\’m a HUGE proponent in accepting Boomerang employees back. But it extends beyond that. Many people
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