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Don't Let Money Prevent You From Hiring The Best9 Strategies for Hiring the Talent you Can't Afford
You want to hire the best you possible can to keep that momentum going but how you define ‘the best’ could be costing you more in the long run. On paper you may decide that you can only afford to pay a new hire x amount of dollars and you may also be aware that talent costs more than you can afford to pay. Do you lower your expectations? Absolutely not. Our research has shown consistently for over 20 years that pay is not what motivates people. In fact compensation is at the bottom of the hierarchy of needs for employees. This is important to know when you are looking to hire ‘the best’ so you don’t let the number interfere with who you want to hire, first of all. Second, you need some strategies to help attract top talent, the people who want more than just a dollar figure when it comes to finding the right job. Read full post The Value of Employee PrideEmployee Pride: What Is It?A client recently asked us whether, as part of their employee survey action planning, they should deliberately encourage their employees to take pride in working for their company. As it turns out, their results were fairly low on this measure so they were wondering if building employee pride is something they should focus on.
As with all action that builds job satisfaction and commitment, these strengths can translate into higher productivity, lower turnover and sick time and greater returns for organizations. That’s it’s important to concentrate on developing “pride in work” among their staff. Read full post Your Employees Will Appreciate You for CaringRosalyn Carter said ‘A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be’.
Consider these statistics: Read full post Tactics to Make Onboarding New Employees a Huge SuccessYou put so much effort into recruiting top talent but do you keep the momentum going after that talent signs on with you? Too often, managers place so much emphasis on recruiting, they neglect to make sure that they make a good first impression starting with their new employees’ onboarding and their first day on the job. You only get one chance to make a first impression yet many managers fail to make it as good an impression as it needs to be. Connecting with new hires and making a meaningful first impression is vital if you want that relationship to thrive. Beginning with day one, new hires should be connecting with their fellow employees and learning day-to-day procedures and learning the most important things they want to know. Here are three great ways to make your onboarding process a great success: Read full post Older Employees Are More Engaged and Increase RevenueThe more engaged your employees are the greater your profits will be.
Misconceptions 2. Older workers aren’t interested in-nor are adept at-learning new things, such as technology. Employing older workers has other advantages too and include: experience, professionalism, work ethic, lower turnover, and knowledge. Read full post The Number One Reason People Quit Their JobsIt’s interesting that marriages often fail for the same reason people quit their jobs. At work when our time and efforts are not appreciated or respected, we don’t feel valued or that what we are doing has meaning. Over time, we start not to care anymore. The same is true in our relationships with significant others, where the most common cause for divorce is a lack of respect, which, over time, also brings couples to realize that one or both simply do not care for the other anymore. Ignoring Employee Problems Won't Make Them DisappearEmployee problems get worse when they are ignored.
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Read full post How Money Can Ruin a Good TimeLearning to value our time over money is a key ingredient in job satisfactionBenjamin Franklin is to blame. He is the one who coined the phrase ‘Time equals Money’ and started us all on the never-ending quest to work more to make more. But as so many research projects and real-life awakenings have shown, money can’t buy happiness, yet many of us can’t get past the idea that if we aren’t making money we are wasting our time. In a recent study done at the University of Toronto, researchers found that people who look at their time as money had difficulty enjoying their free or leisure time and are, ‘ more likely to feel impatient when they’re not using it to earn money. And that hurts their ability to derive happiness during leisure activities’. Treating time as money “can actually undermine your well-being,” says Sanford DeVoe, one of two researchers at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management who carried out the study, which is to be published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
Read full post Why Getting a Raise Won't Make You HappyWhat if Employee Engagement became the norm and no longer the goal.Research shows success does not bring happiness. Happiness brings success. We all chase happiness. We all think we’ll be happy when we get that promotion, happy once we get that raise….Stop for a minute and think about how you feel while you are chasing those goals and what price you may be paying physically, emotionally or socially to achieve whatever we define as success. Some of us are chasing goals with so much discipline and drive we become fiercely determined, potentially causing real self-harm because we may eat poorly, get little sleep, pull excessive overtime at work, ignore family and friends, all to prove we deserve the next promotion because that is the goal. Research has shown, though, that getting the promotion only makes us feel happy for a short time until we find another loftier goal to pursue. We become like mice on a wheel spinning like crazy and going nowhere. Can that be considered living? Shawn Anchor, author of The Happiness Advantage has developed a fascinating case for putting happiness first. |
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