Posts Tagged ‘recruiting’

How To Reduce Costly Employee Turnover: Assign Mentors On Day 1

A company goes to great pains to recruit top talent, but they fumble the onboarding and lose a great hire within the first few months. Sad.  Without the right approach to help new employees settle, these fresh relationships can break. All too frequently, something goes wrong, and within a year, the excited new employee is disgruntled – and then gone. Maybe it was them, maybe it was the company – either way, time and effort has been wasted, the process has to start all over again, and the challenge of finding, recruiting and onboarding talented new staff remains. Isn’t there a better way?

Department of Fun: Building Team Spirit from the Bottom Up

Company leaders like to believe their company is fun and attractive, with an active social calendar to strengthen morale and internal relationships. But how to make this happen? It can be the touch of death for any activity to be organized by the leadership, coming off as too corporate, with money spent but attendance low and the effort unappreciated. Yet if the office is all work and no play, where is the joy – much less the warm company feeling – in that?

I Want You: When the CEO Makes the Call

The hiring team has found a great candidate, an attractive offer is on the table, but the prospect hesitates to sign on. For some reason they are stuck, and without an additional push, they may take the easy route, decline the offer, stay in their existing job – and you’ve lost a strong hire.

Using Thought Leadership As A Talent Magnet

In businesses whose people deliver expertise to customers, thought leadership can be a great business development and marketing asset. It’s how consulting firms like McKinsey, Bain and Boston Consulting Group have built multibillion-dollar businesses, and increasingly how wealth management, architecture, IT services, software and other firms are gaining share.

Recruit Organically: How To Break The Outside Recruiter Habit

When the flow of exciting résumés coming in does not keep pace with the hiring needs of a growing company, many will turn to external recruitment firms. Such firms see a quick and cost-effective way to get in more CVs, as they have established databases and work on a contingency basis, usually charging between 9% and 33% of the first year’s salary only if a hire is made.

About Robert Sher

Robert Sher, Author and CEO AdvisorRobert Sher is founding principal of CEO to CEO, a consulting firm of former chief executives that improves the leadership infrastructure of midsized companies seeking to accelerate their performance. He was chief executive of Bentley Publishing Group from 1984 to 2006 and steered the firm to become a leading player in its industry (decorative art publishing).
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