Leadership - KIm Seeling Smith

My new keynote

Future of Work, Leadership, Speaking / By Kim Seeling Smith

[pdf-embedder url=\”https://kimseelingsmith.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/AUSSIE-SPEAKERS-BROCHURE-AUSSIE-2023-3.pdf\” title=\”KIM SEELING SMITH – AUSSIE SPEAKERS BROCHURE AUSSIE 2023\”] I\’m excited to announce my new keynote, \”Magnetic, Invincible and Future-Fit: Create a culture that is wildly attractive to TODAY\’s customer and workforce – and helps you achieve even the most challenging business goals.\” Business leaders are under incredible pressure. According to new research […]

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The dehumanization of the workforce

Employee Experience, Employee Satisfaction, Leadership / By Kim Seeling Smith

$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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Bad Behavior Part 4

Employee Experience, Leadership, Talent Retention / By Kim Seeling Smith

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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Bad Behavior Part 3

Leadership, Mental Health, Retaining Employees, Wellbeing / By Kim Seeling Smith

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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Bad Behavior Part 2

Employee Experience, Leadership, Talent Acquisition / By Kim Seeling Smith

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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Bad Behavior Part 1

Employee Experience, Leadership, Retaining Employees / By Kim Seeling Smith

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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ATTN: ALL ENGINEERING MANAGERS

Employee Engagement, Employee Experience, Employee Satisfaction, Future of Work, Leadership, Recruitment / By Kim Seeling Smith

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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