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You already know that your workforce is changing due to the arrival of large numbers of younger employees. You’re acutely aware of that. But are these two important and transformational trends on your radar. They should be. Trend One: Remote Employees, Including International Workers, Will Become a Larger Part of Your Workforce Unless you have…
Keeping employees from quitting their jobs after only a year or two is becoming a bigger challenge for many businesses across the county. Is it a problem for you? One recent article, “The New Reality of Employee Loyalty” that Peter K. Murdock wrote for Forbes, suggests that in order to keep new employees, companies should…
Every year 24/7 Wall St publishes a list of the worst American companies to work for. When compiling this year’s list, 24/7 relied on company ratings compiled by Glassdoor.com, an organization that compiles millions of employee reviews of the companies where they work. Please note that in our blog post today, we are not going…
Copious research documents the fact that younger generations like to learn. After all, they grew up attending schools and college; learning is part of the way they interact with the world. One major study from Gallup, “How Younger generations Want to Work and Live,” reports these findings: 60% of younger generations say that the opportunity…
When baby boomers took their first “real” jobs upon entering the workforce, their demands and expectations were ridiculously low by today’s standards. On their first day on the job they got an employee handbook that they took home and scanned while eating dinner or watching TV. Company training, if there was any, was minimal. For…
When a new year begins, it is always interesting to read about trends. If you invest just a little time looking around online, you will find plenty of opinions about technology trends, leadership trends, marketing trends, and the list of trends goes on and on. You will also find a lot of predictions about…
Our Editorial Team had a busy year researching and writing post for the Tortal Blog. Here’s a list for your review. If you see a post that you would like to read, just click on its name and it will open in a new window. All of us at Tortal Training wish you every success…
“Even Your Satisfied Employees Are Job Hunting in January,” an article on Salary.Com, reports that finding a new job could be the most popular New Year’s resolution of all. Citing a study conducted by Salary.com, the article notes that as many as 51% of all currently employed workers are thinking of starting a job search…
This post by Rick DeMarco was published on the Inward Strategic Blog on November 29, 2016. We really like it, agree with what it says, and are pleased to republish it with the permission of Inward Strategic Consulting. What If We Invest in People and They Leave? by Rick DeMarco Recently, in my Linked-In Network,…
Since it’s Thanksgiving week, let’s ask a question about your leadership and management style . . . Do you thank people as often as you should? Too many busy professionals, I am sure you have noticed, are so busy rushing from one pressing task to another that they never take a moment to thank…
