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Oct 6, 20223 min read

Navigating What’s Next: Driving Your Organization Ahead in the Talent Economy

How do we rebuild society around what we’re going to be next, rather than what we used to be? This question is top of mind for many...

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 22, 20223 min read

The Membership Tricks That Work Like Magic

We’ve all witnessed a magic trick at one point or another in our lives. Whether it’s a card trick, a rabbit being pulled out of a hat, or...

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...

Nov 10, 20212 min read

Scary Employee Retention Stats 2021

The costumes have been put away. The haunted houses have closed. Attention has shifted from watching horror movies to watching for Black...

Nov 9, 20212 min read

Scary Employee Retention Stats 2021

The costumes have been put away. The haunted houses have closed. Attention has shifted from watching horror movies to watching for Black...

Oct 15, 20213 min read

How to Bring Belonging Back

Early in my career, I was recruited to sit on an association’s board of directors and given the opportunity to spearhead a priority...

Oct 5, 20213 min read

Getting Leaders On Board With Change

How to approach leaders that are stuck in tradition and often struggle with changing or trying something new. I’ve been a futurist for 20...

Sep 29, 20212 min read

Losing Our Empathy: How to Team-Build When People Could Care Less

Blame it on a 24-hour news cycle, social media, corruption, the increased use of profanity, or savage political campaigns, but one thing...

Sep 23, 20212 min read

The Price is Right: Why Higher Salaries Won’t Single-Handedly Solve the Workforce Crisis

Six years ago, Dan Price, the founder and CEO of Gravity Payments, set off a media firestorm when he raised the firm’s minimum salary...

Sep 1, 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...

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