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Aug 18, 20224 min read

Reaping What You ROWE: A Management Model for the Talent Economy

Here and now, companies are struggling to navigate the Great Resignation and a post-pandemic world simultaneously. In both cases,...

Aug 9, 20222 min read

Generating a More Engaged NextGen Workforce

Walt Disney World offers an experience, as do Apple Stores, Cirque du Soleil, the Geek Squad, Dave and Buster’s, American Girl, and TED...

Jun 29, 20223 min read

Boosting Your Bottom Line: People Over Profit

“There’s no way we’re printing that passage. That’s not realistic, and every executive out there will have a fit.” This was the response...

Jun 22, 20224 min read

Measuring Success in a Talent-Focused Organization

The Great Resignation has brought the topic of employee engagement to the forefront. What does it take to get employees to care about the...

Jun 8, 20224 min read

Constructing Positive Company Culture

In the year 2000, workforce data began to indicate employees were increasingly unhappy at work. Turnover increased, and for more than...

Jun 1, 20225 min read

Giving NextGen What They Need

I wish I had a dollar for every time I heard someone say young professionals don’t want to work and have no work ethic. Turnover has been...

Apr 28, 20224 min read

Changing Your Tune When It Comes to Talent

The Great Resignation continues along a historic path, resulting in the highest employee quit rates on record. Many factors have been...

Apr 13, 20223 min read

5 Modern Myths: NextGen Engagement

Ping pong tables. Pet insurance. Parental leave. For two decades now, employers have added to their suite of benefits in hopes of...

Mar 30, 20223 min read

Keep Calm and Mentor On!

Why don’t young employees just do what is asked of them? Why don’t they take initiative? This past week I gave a keynote and someone...

Mar 24, 20223 min read

Leading The Talent Economy

Innovation. In a disruptive environment, innovation is often cited as the first and best solution. As in – “If our leaders were more...

Mar 16, 20224 min read

The Engagement Strategies Every Leader Needs in Their Toolkit

Over the past 20 years, companies have thrown a great deal of money at the problem of employee disengagement and turnover. Companies...

Mar 2, 20224 min read

Getting Your LeaderSHIP Back On Course

Are you happy at work? Are the people you work with happy? If morale is sinking or people are fleeing, your organization may have a...

Feb 23, 20223 min read

Shifting Focus From Turnover To Talent

Picture your local hospital. Think about the people who work there and the work they do. What would happen if that hospital closed? What...

Dec 9, 20216 min read

Leadership In A Time of Crisis: 3 Strategies to Successfully Manage Change

When I was 25 years old, I was hired into a leadership role at a company which, unbeknownst to me at the time of my hire, was...

Dec 9, 20212 min read

Kick the Quit: Why Work Isn’t Working and What to Do About It

The Great Resignation. The Talent Tsunami. Whatever you choose to call it, it’s the speck of sand in our eyes – it stings, it’s...

Apr 14, 20213 min read

Why They Quit: How To Retain Young Talent

As vaccines are being distributed, there is hope the worst of the pandemic is nearing an end. But if research is any indication, another...

Mar 27, 20212 min read

The Value of Change

How to find your organization’s value What will be valued and valuable after the pandemic? In a volatile environment like this one, every...

Oct 4, 20192 min read

Building the Workforce: Sarah Sladek and XYZ University Announce Training Partnership With Build Cal

Every day, the shortage in the skilled trades becomes more acute. The trades lost nearly a million skilled workers during the recession...

May 21, 20192 min read

Partnering for a Better Tomorrow

By Heather Thomton-Stockman Recently I had the pleasure of presenting a series of Generations@Work trainings for a local construction...

Apr 24, 20193 min read

Workplace Etiquette: The haunting truth of ‘ghosting’

By Sarah Sladek, XYZ University CEO Workplace etiquette. Turns out, that’s a pretty controversial subject right now. Recently I presented...

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