By Dan Coughlin Wow, 20 years goes by fast. On January 15, 1998 I walked out of my classroom at St. Louis University High School as a math teacher for the last time. Tom Becvar took a picture of me standing next to a statue of St. Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits, […]
Do you ever come across a Facebook post and resulting thread of comments that makes you want to pull your hair out? Of course you do and I want to share a recent one I saw with you. (Don’t worry, it’s not political at all!) A self-employed accountant was having fits with his Windows PC. […]
Update: Unemployment claims hit a 45-year low. This indicates a tightening job marketing, which makes holding on to your good employees even more critical. I have a two-part assignment for you: Decide how many special, engagement-boosting activities you would like to organize in 2018, and Put them on the calendar…in “ink.” By “special, engagement-boosting activities” […]
By Liz Greene When it comes to onboarding new employees, if you fail to do it effectively, employee retention and engagement will tank. According to a study by Equifax Workforce Solutions, 40 percent of turnover happens within the first six months, with another 10 percent of new employees leaving before they reach their first anniversary. That […]
As we look toward the coming year, I think it’s a good time to take a “long view” of how we are assimilating Millennials into our companies. The position of Millennials in the workforce is a topic often covered in business blogs like mine, and that’s a good thing because it’s an important issue. Exactly […]