Talent Management
10 Reasons Your Top Talent Will Leave You
Few things in business are as costly and disruptive as unexpected talent departures.
Recruiting vs Talent Management
In today’s post I’ll examine the future of recruiting from a bit of a different perspective than many in the executive search business…
5 Reasons Tenure Kills Culture
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth If your organization confuses loyalty with tenure there is trouble on the horizon. Put simply, tenure kills productivity, and ultimately tenure kills culture. If your business rates tenure higher than performance as a measure for employee evaluation, it’s time for you to consider updating your talent management practices. So, what’s wrong ...
10 Steps to Creating a Talent Advantage
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Creating a talent advantage begins with smart hiring. That said, it never ceases to amaze me at the number of people who are charged with hiring who possess absolutely no skill at doing so. While I rarely meet a CEO who is completely comfortable with the administration of ...
Smart Leaders Do More Than Talk About Talent
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Those of you familiar with my work know how much I detest politically correct sound-bites. Even worse - when those sound-bites are used in an attempt to make statements which embolden a corporate position that doesn’t really exist to begin with. Just because something is written in a vision or ...
Values Based Hiring
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Why play a game of chance when you don’t have to? I was casually reading the results of a survey on the topic of hiring methodologies last weekend when one particular survey question really caught my attention: “When considering a new hire, what is the one characteristic or attribute of the ...
Leadership & Employee Engagement
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer,N2growth The topic of “Employee Engagement” is something that many CEOs tend to struggle with. Long gone are the days where the executive leadership of a company can remain sequestered in their offices with an internal focus on hard metrics. Given the current economic climate, it takes far more than cost-cutting to ...