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The Five Components of Hands-On Management adviceAuthorityCoachingConsultingExpectationsflexibilityFocusGuidanceInfluenceLeadershipManagementMeetingsMotivationOrganizationPerformance StandardsTraining
October 18, 2024

The Five Components of Hands-On Management

There are volumes of research that have attempted to distinguish between leaders, managers, and supervisors: Leaders focus on the big picture, managers focus on details, and supervisors focus on carrying out the details. Leaders inspire, managers…
Stop Recruiting Gen Z Like Millennials CareersEmployeesemployer-employee relationshipflexibilityFocusGen ZGeneration ZInformationMillennialsMotivationopportunitiesOrganizationpost-pandemic workforceRecruitingResourcesretentionstaffingStaffing StrategyTalent WarsWorkforceYoung EmployeesYoung Workforce
November 9, 2024

Stop Recruiting Gen Z Like Millennials

Employers eager to attract the best young employees are too often delivering the wrong messages to the wrong people at the wrong times. Because young talent is perpetually in greater demand than supply, employers desperate to…
The Top Causes of Employee Turnover CommitmentCommunicationExpectationsflexibilityGuidanceHigh PerformanceopportunitiesOrganizationpent-up departure demandpost-pandemic workforcerelationship conflictstaffingtalent shortagesTalent WarsTrainingtraining processesturnoverunemploymentWorkforce
October 18, 2024

The Top Causes of Employee Turnover

After huge recent fluctuations in the job market—and despite ongoing downsizing, restructuring, and reengineering—unemployment is at record lows and employers are facing more severe talent shortages than any time since we at RainmakerThinking began our workplace…
14 Tired Myths About Gen Z for Managers to Replace AuthorityCoachingCommitmentDevelopmentExpectationsExpertsflexibilityFocusGen ZGuidanceInformation EnvironmentopportunitiesOrganizationRecognitiontips
December 20, 2024

14 Tired Myths About Gen Z for Managers to Replace

These are some of the things that today’s young people are telling us in interviews: “They act like their power is unquestionable, but anyone can be cancelled overnight.” “My boss doesn’t fully trust me to work…
It’s true: people are rethinking their priorities when it comes to work Covid-19 PandemicDevelopmentemployer-employee relationshipflexibilityOrganizationtalent developmenttalent shortages
October 18, 2024

It’s true: people are rethinking their priorities when it comes to work

Much has been said about the potential causes of the talent shortages employers are facing in 2021. But what I haven’t seen many people saying is what seems obvious to us and many of our clients…
Every manager is a Chief Retention Officer ExpectationsflexibilityGuidanceHybrid WorkplaceopportunitiesOrganizationRecognitionRecruitingTalent WarsTrainingturnover
October 18, 2024

Every manager is a Chief Retention Officer

When people leave their jobs voluntarily it is almost always—at least in part—directly attributable to their relationship (or lack thereof) with their immediate leader, manager, or supervisor:   Their manager fails to regularly keep track of…
Hiring Challenges—Short-Term and Long-Term Factors Covid-19 PandemicEmployeesemployer-employee relationshipflexibilityFlexibleGlobalizationHybrid WorkplaceJob securityOrganizationpent-up departure demandPerformanceRecruitingretentionSoft Skillstalent shortagesTalent WarsTechnologyTrainingturnoverunemploymentWorkforce
November 4, 2024

Hiring Challenges—Short-Term and Long-Term Factors

After huge recent fluctuations in the job market—record low unemployment in the months before the Covid-19 pandemic, record job losses during, and record re-hiring in the aftermath—employers are facing more severe talent shortages than any time…
Trust is required for progress. Here’s how to build trust on remote teams. CollaborationCommunicationEmployee SuccessflexibilityGuidanceInfluenceopportunitiesProductivityrelationship conflictRemote workWorkforceWorkplace Culture
October 18, 2024

Trust is required for progress. Here’s how to build trust on remote teams.

“I believe that all human progress begins with trust.” This was something Frances Frei said to me in a recent conversation we had about transforming toxic workplace cultures. And research seems to support this belief. In…