Your knowledge of best practices may be your strongest asset during the upcoming recruiter layoffs. However, during this hectic year of rapid change in talent management, I have found that many professionals have simply been overwhelmed. So they could find little time for their essential reading. To those who have …
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Smoothing Out VUCA – How HR Can Thrive In A Volatile Up-And-Down World
A think piece – for guiding you on how to successfully operate in a volatile whack-a-mole world. What Exactly Is VUCA, And How Does It Impact HR? Unfortunately, a majority of HR professionals that you ask about VUCA will have literally never heard of it, even though VUCA may be …
Read More »The Untimely Death Of Workforce Planning – HR’s Most Costly Omission
HR’s almost nonexistent workforce planning has created our most costly business impact this century. And those billions in business damages have been created primarily over the last decade. We have had a constant mismatch between a company’s talent needs and its workforce capabilities. The primary reason for this talent mismatch …
Read More »The Untimely Death Of Workforce Planning – HR’s Most Costly Omission
HR’s almost nonexistent workforce planning has created our most costly business impact this century. And those billions in business damages have been created primarily over the last decade. We have had a constant mismatch between a company’s talent needs and its workforce capabilities. The primary reason for this talent mismatch …
Read More »Quoted in the New York Times – The Long, Unhappy History of Working From Home
“When people are in turmoil, you take advantage of them,” said John Sullivan, a professor of management at San Francisco State University. “The data over the last three months is so powerful,” he said. “People are shocked. No one found a drop in productivity. Most found an increase. People have …
Read More »“Forever” Remote Work – An Unstoppable Trend With An Amazing ROI
By Dr. John Sullivan and Michael Cox We are experiencing what I call “The grand WFH experiment.” Initially, the Working From Home (WFH) critics were heavily favored. However, because of its powerful business case, WFH is now destined to become “the new corporate normal.” I have been writing about the …
Read More »Voluntary Buyouts – Why Every Shareholder Should Fight Them
If you are a shareholder in a major company, voluntary employee buyouts should alarm you. First, I find them to be the single most costly strategic blunder* of all HR actions. Second, their bottom-line result may actually become negative when you calculate the real costs of paying your best employees to “take the money and run.”
Read More »[SLIDES] Recruiting Needs To Pivot For The Downturn And Upcoming Opportunities
Dr. John Sullivan presents on how recruiters can thrive in a volatile environment. By planning for economic changes, you can be adaptive, agile, scalable, and able to quickly pivot in a new direction. If you want to be successful in the long-term, you need to start planning for a significant …
Read More »Happy New Year to Recruiters, Now Prepare for the Downturn
Almost every strategy and the recruiting tool that is currently used must “shift” when the unemployment rate rises and the power shifts away from the candidate and back to the employer. Even if you don’t know precisely when a downturn will occur, there are multiple benefits tied to preparing for one in advance with a “downturn in recruiting plan.”
Read More »‘Corporate Skill Pivots’ May Signal the End of the Permanent Employees
Forget the job threats created by the march of the robots, because the new skill sets required by radical new technologies are much more likely to cause you to lose your permanent corporate job! In case you missed it, General Motors recently underwent a dramatic corporate-wide “skills pivot” that resulted …
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