In 2017, Manpower Group Solutions, a global provider of HR consulting and outsourcing, did a major study on employee flexibility. In a survey of nearly 15,000 employees worldwide, they found that 40 percent of them listed flexibility in their Top Three criteria when accepting a...
As Marcus Buckingham famously said in his co-authored book, First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently: “Bad managers play checkers with their people and good managers play chess.” However, in today’s red hot employment market, employees seem to be winning...
When your company sets out to fill a new position, do you conduct a job role analysis first, or look for a certain type of person? Are you scratching your head, wondering what difference it will make anyway? In today’s competitive economy and labor market, employers...
At Talent Suite we talk a lot about getting the right people in the right seats at the right time. When all three are aligned, it’s magic for a company. But with the changing times and the tumult of the last two years, there’s been...
Have you ever found the perfect hire for a position, and then had that hire leave within the first 90 days? According to Bravely, more than one third of new hires do just that. The top reasons for leaving are varied, but often include: stress in...
Employee retention is a challenge for employers in the best of times, and these are not the best of times. Nearly 4 million people jumped ship from their jobs in May 2021 alone. The next month, even more people left their jobs. The trend has...
An objective way to determine which employees can most naturally develop or teach certain soft skills is to use a predictive behavioral assessment that will enable you to understand how people are wired—regardless of gender. ...
If employers were to consider a combination of values, alignment, experience, and whether the candidate is “wired” for the role, a skinny resume is just as good as someone with years or even decades of work experience....
Have you ever given constructive feedback to a team member and no matter what you say or do – they’re just not getting it? Many teams tend to suffer from performance-related failures when employee feedback isn’t given and received in a timely and appropriate manner. If...
With over 20 years in the talent management space, Melanie Shaffer knows first-hand how the limitations of hiring play out when even one team member is in the wrong seat. After years of research to identify and solve this issue, Melanie went on to create...