Paying top dollar for an employment agency to find talent can be a drain on already tight budgets.  Plus — and make that a big plus —  there is a very good chance top talent is already employed.   So how do you identify top performers with proven talent and how do you entice them to

The economic crisis we’ve gone through has distorted the workforce marketplace.  There has been a lot of evaluation of resources, ROI, utilization and efficiency — all good things which often are not thought out during good economic times.  A trimming of the hedge, more often than not, is good for the long term.  On the

It’s not as easy as you may think.  You can easily confuse great quantity and great quality with great leadership and vision.  A top quality/quantity performer does their job well above standard, goes beyond the call of duty, staying late, arriving early, always meeting deadlines, doing what it takes to do their job the best

It is wonderful to see the issue of wage disparity between men and women surface again and again (see CTL’s The Gender Gap and Inside the Numbers in the March issue), but it’s the analysis and reflection as to why this continues to occur, and most importantly what can be done about it, that should

To this writer, “enough” is one of the most powerful words in the English language. It often means the difference between action or inaction. The difference between what matters and what does not. The difference between leading and following. The difference between mediocrity and excellence. And in both your professional and personal life these choices

How do you start over? Whether you’re faced with a dramatic change in your life such as a loss of employment due to downsizing or the need to consider a new career following an injury or simply re-entering the work force after a prolonged absence, beginning anew is probably one of the most courageous and

If you have ever had the joy (I do mean that both honestly and well …) of being part of a rep hockey team, you will know that a coach during spring tryouts casts a wide net of talent to come to the ice. It is then that he figures out a way to build

There is a term in economics called “hyper competition” which refers to a competitive environment, characterized by high levels of uncertainty and dynamism. This economic term is generally used in business as it relates to enterprises, corporations and financial entities but I think it applies also to the workforce at large. Our current economic climate

We reward what we value. This is true in our personal lives and it is also true in business. In large organizations, there is a trickle down approach to how mandates are communicated through the organization. There are guidelines and matrixes that buffer those evaluating performance from completely deviating from plan. In smaller owner-managed and/