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In today’s fierce competition for top talent, leaders must focus on retaining and developing their existing workforce. In this blog, we dive into the strategies for prioritizing talent development and maintaining a strong talent pool.

In today’s fierce competition for top talent, leaders must focus on retaining and developing their existing workforce. In this blog, we dive into the strategies for prioritizing talent development and maintaining a strong talent pool.

In today’s fierce competition for top talent, leaders must focus on retaining and developing their existing workforce. In this blog, we dive into the strategies for prioritizing talent development and maintaining a strong talent pool.

In today’s fierce competition for top talent, leaders must focus on retaining and developing their existing workforce. In this blog, we dive into the strategies for prioritizing talent development and maintaining a strong talent pool.

Look a little further down the road, for the “unintended consequences” of innovations such as Chat GPT, especially the unintended consequences on staff wellbeing.

By magic we mean, the current team you have produces extraordinary results starting immediately.
We’re saying to produce that kind of magic, you have to foster great Workplace Relationships.

In our work with well over a thousand companies, and many thousands of people, maybe the most relevant and profoundly important subject that needs addressing is “Excellence.”

What would it be like to work in an environment in which leaders and co-workers are not reacting and over-reacting to every twist and turn of the economy, the pandemic, and even the whims of co-workers? It is possible.

One of my favorite quotes from a contemporary master of business success reads “Embrace reality and deal with it.” As with many such words of wisdom, it is easier said than done.

February 2021…
293 million miles away…
A journey of 6 months…
Travelling at 12,000 miles per hour…

In our last blog, An Opportunity: The Crucible of Covid, we left you with a question:

“What new context could you create for yourself and your organization that would displace the future that is uncertain with a future you create?”

Our last blog, The Economy, Business Performance and People, discussed the impact of the “freak out” associated with the lock down of the America economy.

The stock market crashed in March 2020 and the spread of the coronavirus brought business to a halt. To say that America was gripped by anxiety is an incredible understatement.

In the 2017 Gallup State of the American Workplace study, Gallup found that 67% of employees do not like their jobs or where they work. Employees overwhelmingly only work to get a paycheck.

The current paradigm for organizations guarantees weak performance.

(And you are either blind to it or perpetuating it.)

The current paradigm for business is to maximize shareholder return.