Savvy millennial employees are anxious to develop their skills and feel more productive. At the same time, management needs an efficient way to improve the collaboration of their multi-generational workforce. This may sound obvious, but when I’m helping clients...
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Closing the Skills Gap: Lessons From North Carolina To Maine
When finding solutions for critical talent shortages, the state you’re in matters a lot. And I don’t mean your state of mind. Giving recent keynote talks in Maine and North Carolina on “How to Close the Skills Gap” gave me a chance to interview top executives in both...
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Is Your Talent Strategy Setting You Up To Fail?
Jim Collins, author of How the Mighty Fall, did an important study of why great organizations fail. He examined 11 corporations that at one time were considered top performers, but had subsequently fallen badly. The sample included Motorola, Merck, HP and Circuit...
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Warren Buffet, Hiring Algorithms, and Unwanted Volunteers
Our Toward a Smarter Workforce series rounds up news and articles relating to the latest research and insights about developing and retaining a multi-generational workforce. For this week’s roundup, we’ve reviewed three recent articles about critical...
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Are You Actually Building a Smarter Workforce?
To compete and grow today, no matter what your industry, part of your strategy must be to continually build a smarter workforce. You need employees who are constantly improving their capabilities and knowledge. But there are four critical elements of any smart...
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Chasing The Machine: Does Your Staff Have The Critical Skills To Keep Up With Technology Changes?
Do you know what skills will be most valuable in your organization, given rapid advances in digital technologies? Do you know what capabilities you should be investing in to stay competitive? What skills are becoming less valuable? To make good decisions about...
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