Editors Note

What do sports and business have in common? Great vision, strong leadership, clear strategy and good teamwork undeniably makes a winning team – be it business or sports. So, it makes sense that many business experts use sports terms and examples to explain complex business concepts to the inexperienced.

5 Useful Performance Management Takeaways From Sports

For a long time now, sport-references have been made in the workplace. You probably roll your eyes every time a colleague tells you whose “court” the “ball” is in, to keep your eye on that ball, or not to drop it. So, that time you overheard the sales manager go on a long rant about a game plan, a full-court press, the bottom of the ninth, fighting for those extra yards, swinging for the fences, and a slam dunk—all in one hopelessly-convoluted metaphor? Try to forget it ever happened.

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Think You Know Which Of Your Employees Are On The Brink Of Burnout?: Think again!

Change is inevitable. Any successful business manager knows that in order to stay relevant and competitive, an organization must continually evolve. Whether it’s the software company that has reached the limits of its market, the pharmaceutical giant that suddenly realizes its pipeline is sparse or the financial firm that needs a new business model to smooth out fluctuations, adaptability is imperative—from the CEO to the customer service representative and everyone in between.

The Trick To Retaining New Hires: Why corporate narrative is your best onboarding and retention tool

Ensuring long-term retention is a challenge that all companies face during the hiring and onboarding process. According to statistics provided by relocation management software developer, UrbanBound, companies lose an average of 25 percent of all new hires in the first year. 20 percent of those losses happen within the first 45 days of employment. In fact, polls generated by Ben Peterson for BambooHR have determined that companies waste over $10,000 a year on ineffective onboarding practices. So, the question is how can onboarding practices be made more efficient? What can companies do to retain new hires? Should they consider perks like free food or onsite incentives?

Why Training Means A Lot To Millennials: Making the most of millennial talent

When baby boomers took their first “real” jobs upon entering the workforce, their demands and expectations were ridiculously low by today’s standards. On their first day on the job they got an employee handbook that they took home and scanned while eating dinner or watching TV. Company training, if there was any, was minimal.

What Salary Should You Be Earning At Your Age?: There is a direct correlation

There’s a direct correlation between age and salary – for most of your life they will increase together as you learn new skills, gain more experience and increase your potential. But it also depends on several variables, including your industry, development, skill set and even gender. Here’s what you need to know according to Instant Offices.

What Is Talent Mobility?: Talent mobility as a key business practice

Talent mobility. It’s an evolving talent practice that delivers incredible value for the workforce and the business, and it gives the organization a powerful competitive edge. At the same time, many employers still aren’t sure how to define this practice and what might be involved, so we’re going to break that down for you today by exploring what it is, how the research proves out the value, and how technology plays a role in making it all come together.

Three Ways To Be More Productive At Work: 5 productivity tips from the pros

A new study reports that top-rated employees are three times more valuable to their managers than the average employee. And despite the fact that they are responsible for 61 percent of the total work done in their departments, they actually have work habits that reduce their stress levels.

Future Proofing Succession Planning: Know how to develop employees

Apparently, the war for talent is back! Really, I never thought it had left – in fact the acquisition and retention of the best workforce that you can, has always been a fight that you could never take your eye off of. Identifying, nurturing and retaining talent at all levels of your organization is a business-critical activity that leaders and managers don’t always appreciate needs to be worked on. It’s not solely HR’s responsibility to resolve the issues when they occur, it’s up to the leaders and managers to manage their employees so that the entire workforce feels valued and enabled to give of their best, performance-wise.