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Strategic Recruiting Defined
Nov 30, 2018 by Kathleen Quinn Votaw Category: Blog 0 comments Tags: company culture, employer brand, on-boarding, recruiting
No one would argue that sales and marketing are strategic business functions. They get strong executive support and the big budgets because they feature data-driven decision-making, market segmentation, powerful branding, and customer focus. Recruiting, on the other hand, has long been known as “just sales with a crummy budget,” as HR thought-leader John Sullivan puts […]
Hire a Vet. Here’s Why.
Nov 30, 2018 by Kathleen Quinn Votaw Category: Blog 0 comments Tags: company culture, diversity, hiring, Veterans
Let’s get right to it, as they’d say in the military. Every organization is fiercely competing for top talent—the people with the right mix of skills and values to grow a business to new heights. One often overlooked category of top talent is veterans, who are: fine-tuned to do things right; wired to be polite; convinced […]
Happily and Productively Remote
Nov 01, 2018 by Kathleen Quinn Votaw Category: Blog 0 comments Tags: company culture, hiring, millenials, retention
Not long ago, the CFO of a fast-growing $150 million company with 80 sales reps was planning to move to a bigger, better location. I suggested that he not move everyone into the new space and, instead, arrange for some of the reps to work remotely. I was shocked by his answer: “No, because I […]
15 Years and 15 Lessons Learned
What it means to be an effective leader has changed dramatically since I founded TalenTrust in 2003, because workplaces themselves have changed. Gone—or going—are the unbendable rules, inflexibility in how and where to work, micromanagement, pedestals and hierarchy, minimal time off, and virtually everything else traditional and predictable about work. What defines today’s workplace is […]
A Strategic Plan For Winning Talent
CEOs cannot achieve success alone. Every CEO needs partners in strategy, and I will argue for many reasons that their most important partner is a talented and trusted CHRO. The chief reason is our increasingly fierce talent war, which means that finding and keeping the right people has never been this difficult. Another critical reason […]
It Doesn’t Pay To Be Cheap
Jul 24, 2018 by Kathleen Quinn Votaw Category: Blog 0 comments Tags: company culture, employee engagement, hiring, recruiting, retention, Vistage
If there is one word that cuts through the complexity of employee compensation, it’s fairness. Fair pay for the actual work, and fair pay in relation to colleagues and market expectations. There are many reasons to make fairness the cornerstone of your compensation philosophy and practices, not the least of which are an increased ability […]
Six barriers to finding and keeping great people
Jun 29, 2018 by Kathleen Quinn Votaw Category: Blog 0 comments Tags: employer brand, hiring, HR strategy/strategic HR, leadership/CEOs, recruiting, retention, talent management, Vistage
Here are two things you should know about today’s candidate-first talent market” The best companies are radically changing how they hire people in 2018. (Inc.) Talent precedes growth. (Joe Galvin, Vistage) There are only so many great people out there and every company is competing to win and keep them. We all know that. But […]
You and everyone else are competing for top talent-so what should you do?
May 30, 2018 by Kathleen Quinn Votaw Category: Blog 0 comments Tags: company culture, employer brand, hiring, HR strategy/strategic HR, leadership/CEOs, recruiting, retention, talent management, Vistage
Talent management has become much like trying to fill a bucket with a hole in it. According to Vistage and our clients at TalenTrust, more than 70 percent of small to medium-sized businesses plan to add headcount this year. While you’re out there competing for new people on the market, 71 percent of your […]
Culture + employment brand = talent advantage
Apr 20, 2018 by Kathleen Quinn Votaw Category: Blog 0 comments Tags: company culture, diversity, employee engagement, employer brand, retention, talent management
Culture permeates every workplace, but it’s invisible if you don’t pay attention to it. How would you describe yours? Would employees say the same? Becoming a “best” company, “cool” company, or whatever you want to be, will not happen by default. You have to make it happen based on your particular mix of values, […]
Why you need a strategic HR
Mar 21, 2018 by Kathleen Quinn Votaw Category: Blog 0 comments Tags: employee engagement, hiring, HR strategy/strategic HR, onboarding, recruiting, retention, talent management
Until now, high-level strategy meetings ended with an afterthought something like “…and, oh yea, we better tell HR …” HR was traditionally seen as a cost center, relegated to administrative and transactional back-room responsibilities like finding and training employees when needed and managing employee benefits and compliance. HR expert, Dr. Christopher Lee, uses his proudly […]
