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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…
The proven basics that will make you a better manager AccountabilityadviceAuthorityCoachingCommitmentExpectationsFlexibleGuidanceLeadershipManagementMeetingsMicromanagingMotivationopportunitiesProductivityUndermanagementVicious Cycle of Undermanagement
August 9, 2025

The proven basics that will make you a better manager

If you’re trying to be a better manager, it’s likely you’re one of the nearly 90% of leaders who are undermanaging. That’s not a judgment, that’s just math. Undermanagement is not a sign of laziness, apathy,…
Employers: Beware the consequences of the overcommitment cycle CoachingCollaborationCommitmentContinuous ImprovementFocusopportunitiesOrganizationProductivityTrainingturnover
October 18, 2024

Employers: Beware the consequences of the overcommitment cycle

If you want to stop turnover and prevent people from quitting, as an employer, you must fight overcommitment syndrome within your ranks. This is the toxic cycle: When an organization is understaffed, the extra work inevitably…