What was your New Year’s resolution? Did you give up smoking? Are you eating healthier? Exercising more? The beginning of a new year often brings changes designed to improve your life in one way or another. Professionally, ’tis the season for employees to consider switching jobs, or even careers, in order to achieve a new…
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It’s the first week of the new year and many managers are re-evaluating and updating the job accountabilities of their direct reports. The Metiss Group recently wrote a good article on the importance of reviewing job activities, priorities and success factors. Hopefully while you’re setting all these expectations you’re also putting some thought into how…
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Employer branding helps organizations uncover, articulate, and define their image, culture, differentiators, and reputation for the purposes of attracting quality talent. So consider building your employer brand into your on-boarding program. The on-boarding process is linked to and in some ways starts with the “employer brand” that you create to attract, engage, and retain the…
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I know that finding a job, whether through your own means or through a staffing company, can be very frustrating. I wanted to know what really makes for a pleasant experience from contractors who have been through it all with several different agencies. They described what they have experienced in the past, and what they…
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Massive training manuals no longer meet the needs of today’s diversified workforce. We’ve written previously about the importance of continuous training for your employees. A recent PricewaterhouseCoopers study found that 35% of workers consider professional development programs to be the top benefit offered by their employers. Your people are your most important asset, so investing in…
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How you approach a new hire’s first day may determine whether he’s with you for the long term. Fact: 46% of new hires are gone within eighteen months,1 and almost half of those losses occur in the first forty-five days of employment.2 Those numbers aren’t just startling; they’re expensive. How can you design your hiring…
Continue reading ...The level of commitment from your employees directly affects financial performance. At Brightwing, our passion for elevating human performance drives a hunger for data that shows what works and what doesn’t. Two results of a Gallup research study recently caught our attention: Disengaged employees cost U.S. companies $370 billion annually through lost productivity. Engaged employees…
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There are more than six billion people on the planet, each of us with talents and skills. Not one of us could be called a commodity. So why then, when organizations seek out new talent, would they use a process designed for procurement? MSPs (Managed Service Providers) aren’t new, and at face value, are well…
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You can think of your Employment Brand as your organization’s reputation as an employer. And the stronger your Employment Brand, the more, and higher quality, candidates you will attract. In order to market your employment brand, you have to discover what makes your company unique (or your Employee Value Proposition). Then you have to communicate…
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So you worked really hard on your presentation. You are confident the information you compiled is factual, relevant, and will knock the socks off your boss – maybe change the whole direction of the organization and result in a huge promotion for you. And then you present. You see your boss’ eyes glaze over; he’s…
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