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LinkedIn Tip #3: Give Useful Recommendations

May 7, 2009 by Des Walsh with 241 views

The third in this series of LinkedIn Tips is to Give Useful Recommendations. The Recommendations feature is one of the distinctive elements of LinkedIn, whereby members can provide comments on one another’s capabilities, experience of working together and so on. It is a free-form system with just one field where your “recommender” can... [read more]

Recruiting Bootstrapping Employees

June 16, 2008 by Jeff Cornwall with 90 views

My last post looked at a bootstrap culture as I have been writing about it for my new textbook on bootstrapping. There are four steps that can be taken to help build and maintain a bootstrap culture as the business grows. The first of these steps is recruiting for a Bootstrap Culture: When bringing new employees into a business, it is... [read more]

Economy got you down? Get out of the fetal position and start seeing the pockets of gold around you

June 11, 2008 by Pamela Slim with 51 views

The excitement of an economic boom is intoxicating. I lived and worked in Silicon Valley right in the middle of the "web crack" growth period.  There was a buzz in the air that lifted everyone's feet a few inches off the ground.  People were meeting and pitching and partnering and hiring and planning on taking over the... [read more]

Employees Want to Work on Their Terms

June 2, 2008 by Steve King with 88 views

Interesting report by Deloitte called Competing for Talent.   The study suggests that companies need to change the nature of work to continue to attract and retain high value employees.  Key quote: "For today’s workers, hefty compensation packages and fancy retirement plans just aren’t as appealing as they used to be.... [read more]

Do you have enough players on your team?

April 29, 2008 by Wayne Wilson with 91 views

“We’ve got enough football players to compete. If you can compete, you can win.” – David Cutcliffe Businesses are in a war for talent. Our economy continues its shift from manufacturing and making things to knowledge-based businesses, which in turn rely on highly skilled and well-educated employees and associates. They provide the... [read more]

Talent Development: Evidence or Magical Thinking?

April 12, 2008 by Steve Roesler with 73 views

"I don't understand how a system can predict high potentials. It can predict if I'll continue to perform well or poorly as an engineer, for example, but it has no data on how I'll perform as a manager or in marketing or in logistics. No data = no prediction of any significance, statistical or otherwise. Those deliberate job... [read more]

What Talents Create The Heart of Your Business?

April 10, 2008 by Steve Roesler with 117 views

If You Are In Business For the Long run. . .. . .then you need the kind of people who will: 1. Take you there 2. Keep you there Do you know who those "kinds" of people are? I'm in the midst of working with a company to genuinely hire and develop talent for the future. So I put together an activity (doesn't take long with the right... [read more]

Does Your Talent Performance =Your Brand Promise?

March 31, 2008 by Steve Roesler with 131 views

Companies are looking for talent at the same time people are being intentional about identifying their own talents. It doesn't seem like much of a stretch to match the two. But there's a subliminal factor that influences all of this and on which corporate and individual success rely: It's. . . The Promise I was on the phone this... [read more]

Talents, Skills, Companies & Education: All Week

March 31, 2008 by Steve Roesler with 71 views

Getting A Grip On What's Underneath Talent Issues--And What We Can Do This headline from Reuters grabbed my attention: "AT&T CEO Says Hard To Find Skilled U.S. Workers" The specific issue: Chief Executive Randall Stephenson says AT&T can't find enough  skilled workers to fill all the 5,000 customer service jobs it... [read more]

Your 6 Word Management Story & 5 Career Suggestions

March 30, 2008 by David Zinger with 103 views

Do you have a 6 word management story in you? I co-write Slacker Manager. Last week I asked readers to write their 6 word management story. I offered a prize of a Canadian Toonie to the coolest management story. We now have about 25 stories with a couple of days left to go. Click here is you would like to read some of the stories... [read more]

Venture Capital’s Brain Drain

March 10, 2008 by AlexanderMuse with 105 views

This year I made two New Year resolutions: Execute on an eating plan that would allow me to achieve a sustainable and healthy body weight. Use LinkedIn as a tool to reconnect with my 800+ contacts over the course of 12 months (3.5 people per day). The ‘eating plan’ has been going well, and I have managed to lose around 15lbs so far... [read more]

Lots of Management, Leadership Missing: Experienced Exec

February 19, 2008 by Steve Roesler with 79 views

Next week I'm leading a 1 1/2 day conference on Change and Leadership . Today, I had lunch with one of the speakers who I am thankful will be able to participate. Tony Palazzo is a very experienced director with a high-profile defense contractor whose products can mean the difference between life and death. Tony is also a Naval... [read more]

You Don’t Have to Be Crazy to Work Here…

February 11, 2008 by Rick Telberg with 36 views

…But it may help to be “hypomanic.” by Rick Telberg You probably know a hypomanic person or two. You know the type: They’re flaming with energy, gushing with ideas, flashing with creativity, charging ahead while others are still getting their ducks in a row. They get a lot done. But they also get into trouble. Is it worth it—a thousand... [read more]

Plucking Talent from Overseas

January 30, 2008 by Rick Telberg with 126 views

Steve Roth (left), managing editor at AccountingWeb.co.uk (the older sibling to the Indiana-based AccountingWeb.com) writes that “the shortage of home grown talent has led many firms to look overseas for new recruits.” He posts a piece that looks at how “continental” recruiting might help the profession’s staff shortage. It kind of... [read more]

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