Why Do Team Members Stay?
This relationship might be the biggest indicator of whether your best people stay, and you give the person in charge of this relationship almost no training on how to manage it effectively.
Please, make it make sense.
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Worth Reading – When You’re Stuck on “Help Wanted”
I feel like we learned this in Econ 101, right? It’s a simple supply-and-demand curve. If you can’t buy the supply at the price you are offering, you need to raise it. Yet, the article goes on to talk about all the reasons why this isn’t happening, and they aren’t what you’d expect. It’s not just small shops that lack the resources to conduct salary research; it’s also very large, growing companies that don’t want to adjust the salaries of currently underpaid employees or are hesitant to commit to higher salaries long-term, etc.
In the end, though, those concerns are your problem, not the candidates.
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Worth Reading – Why Your People Managers Are the Weakest Link in Learning and Development
There are many organizations that claim to have a learning culture, but the reality is very different. The real culture is that people are rewarded and promoted based on hourly billable or other targets, leaving no time for learning.
That’s your culture.
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Worth Reading – Nobody Is Coming to Save Your Career
It doesn’t take much to stand out as a manager when no one is taking the time to even ask about the career goals of the people who report to you. The organization probably isn’t going to provide much in the way of talent development budget, but if you can just show you care and provide some mentorship, you’ll be outdoing 90% of the managers out there.
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Worth Reading – If You Feel Behind in Your Career, Read This
The idea that you will start your career after college, work hard, and move up the career ladder is a complete fiction. That is not normal by any means. If you find yourself in your 30s or 40s switching jobs and not climbing the ladder the way you thought you would, welcome to the club. What you’ve been experiencing is normal. There’s no ladder, it’s the freaking monkey bars out here.
