Underperforming Employees Cost Managers About One Work Day a Week

When employers don’t hire the right candidates for the job, it may cost them some valuable work time.

Managers asking themselves “Where does the day go?” may now have an answer. Chief financial officers (CFOs) recently surveyed by Robert Half International said that, on average, supervisors spend 17 percent of their time — nearly one day per week — overseeing poorly performing employees. Continue Reading

How Employers can Add Value to Career Development

Beverly Kaye (on the left) and Julie Winkle Giulioni (on the right)

Employees may one day hope to advance in their careers, by having the right attitude and working hard.  So, how can employers demonstrate an interest in career development while getting their employees’ best efforts on the job?

The success of every business is based on the people that work there. And one of the most costly impacts is the loss of key people.

Growing your business means growing your people.  Research consistently underscores the link between employee engagement and critical business priorities like innovation, productivity, efficiency and results. Yet too many organizations fail to see the connection between talent and the bottom line. Continue Reading

Five Reasons You Should Enroll in an Executive Education Program

CEOs and senior managers are facing perhaps the most fast paced business environment the world has ever seen. With globalization becoming standard and technology becoming integrated at an unprecedented level, new strategies must be developed faster than ever before. Aspiring CEOs are finding they must constantly stay ahead of the curve. An executive training program is ideal supplemental training to help keep up-and-coming managers prepared for these new challenges. Continue Reading

Workers Want Direction in their Career Paths

Employees seem to want more guidance on how to take their careers to the next levels.

For workers, “show me the way” can be just as important as “show me the money,” new research from Accountemps suggests. In the survey, more than half (54 percent) of workers interviewed said knowing their career path is very important to their overall job satisfaction. Nearly one-third (31 percent) of respondents feel this feedback is at least somewhat important. Continue Reading

Managers Say Employees More Competitive than the Last Decade

Do your co-workers often seem competitive on the job?  Managers are noticing this behavior according to a recent study.

As athletes from around the world prepare to compete in London, workplaces in the U.S. appear to be hosting competitions of their own, a new OfficeTeam survey suggests. Nearly half (49 percent) of senior managers interviewed said they believe employees are more competitive with each other today than they were 10 years ago. These results mirror those from a similar survey of senior executives conducted in 2008.

Managers were asked, “In your opinion, are employees more or less competitive with their coworkers than they were 10 years ago?” Their responses: Continue Reading

49% of Recruiters Say Managers With Innovation Skills In High Demand

Forty-nine percent of the executive recruiters surveyed by ExecuNet revealed that executive and other managers with proven innovation skills were hard to find, compared to other skills, and 31 percent said companies were willing to pay a premium for innovative talent – even in today’s job market.

“With product lifecycles declining rapidly, increased global competition and pressure from changing customer needs, executives who have demonstrated they can challenge business assumptions and find the areas of opportunities in current business models are in demand,” says Mark Anderson, President of ExecuNet. “We counsel executives everyday that they have to do more than claim they were ‘innovative’ on their résumés. They need to show a quantifiable history of innovating and its impact on their previous organizations,” adds Anderson.

To negotiate top pay for top innovation skills, executive recruiters revealed that 32 percent of hiring managers “want concrete examples of innovation by the candidate in previous positions.” Continue Reading

Motivation Managers Can Use to Improve Performance

Most, if not all, managers would agree that motivating people can improve performance.  However, they might not understand the motivators that some workers need.

Career analyst, Dan Pink, says businesses can’t continue to motivate people in the wrong way.  In the following video, he explains the problem between science and business that is affecting how people are motivated. Continue Reading

Trust still comes on foot but leaves per formula 1 race car

In a High Performance Organization all managers on every organizational level have to be of top-notch quality. This blog is about one of the most important characteristic of a successful manager: TRUST. Continue Reading

Managers and executives should follow these three job-seeking steps

The U.S. Deparment of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts total employment will increase by 15.3 million positions, or 10.1 percent, through 2018. This will result in more opportunities for job seekers, including managers and executives, but also fierce competition for these open positions.

In their new book, Expert Resumes for Managers and Executives, authors Wendy S. Enelow and Louise M. Kursmark offer advice to managers and executives on how to set themselves apart from other job applicants. The authors recommend taking three key steps to finding a job: Continue Reading