[Excerpt from "From the Annointed Few to the Collective Many: How Workplace Communities Will Transform Your Business", January 2008, Mzinga]
“Talent Management” has become an entire industry and is inclusive of subjects such as competencies, skills, and performance appraisals. At a more basic level, though, talent management is about finding, developing, and retaining key talent within [...]
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Gen X Ain’t All That
Posted in career, culture on September 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Employee retention – WOW!
Posted in career, culture on June 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Over the last few days I’ve had the privilege of both facilitating and being a participant in a set of trainings at my company. Here are some observations:
During a session, the employees went through introductions and told us their years of service. In one group we had associates with 14, 22, 10, 13 [...]
Systemic Workplace Experiments
Posted in Lean, career, change, culture on March 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“If you destroy the people of a company, you do not have much left.” – W. Edwards Deming
Check out John Hunter’s post on some workplace experiments happening at 37Signals. Sounds like some progressive thinking individuals trusting and respecting their employees. John talks about how the company experimented with 4-day work weeks over the summer so [...]
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