Editor's Note

What efforts are you making in retaining your employees, especially top performers? Perhaps, you might be doing your best, but still the attrition rate is high. Or maybe you are not doing anything, as you are clueless on how to make it work. With the majority of Millennials in today’s workplace, maybe the tactics are a bit different. Let us see how it works out.

Keeping Your Top Performers Happy: 5 hacks

Employee retention is a critical component of any company’s continued success - especially in a highly competitive industry like marketing. After you developer onboards a competent employee, you need to hold onto him or her for dear life, because in most cases, retaining top talent actually determines the viability of the enterprise.

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Training Millennials: Let’s decode the millennial mindset

To training professionals who were born before 1980—the year when the first millennials were born—the question can seem mysterious and complex. We look at millennials and see a group of young people who seem addicted to texting on their phones, who sometimes seem skeptical about the lessons we want to teach them, and who are prone to changing jobs frequently.

Big Talent Themes For 2016: What would you add to the list?

Coming off of our annual conference, I’m struck by how many of the challenges organizations face are shared across geographies and industries. My colleagues on the research team have identified 5 big themes we’re seeing for 2016.

Ditch Your Employee Suggestion Box: It may be doing more harm than good

Academic research into suggestion systems highlight a huge variance in the impact that the average employee suggestion box has vs. a high performing program for managing employee ideas. In fact, the average employee suggestion box may be doing more harm than good.

Ongoing Learning And Performance: Exploring the link between them

In the past, learning paths were created for employees, courses assigned, and boxes checked off when they were completed. In today’s workplace, those traditional learning plans just don’t cut it.

Talent Tug Of War: GovCon vs. the private sector

In the ongoing war for talent, companies across all industries are fighting to attract and retain today’s top performers. With the private sector offering increasingly more attractive compensation packages and engaging work environments,government contracting firms are struggling to compete.

Employee Performance: How to support and not sabotage

Many managers and executives sabotage employee performance systematically and regularly. Why would they consciously or unconsciously sabotage organization success with this destructive management style? Change can be either a curse or a blessing. Most people fear, dislike and resist any change that they perceive threatens their security, future success or well being.

A Brave New Workplace: Talent management strategies for new generation of workforce

We are all familiar with the War for Talent that is felt on a global scale, but what some of us fail to understand is that we can take proactive measures to minimise the impact on your workplace. These measures can be implemented from the outset, and must come from keen observation of the changing environment combined with an effort to adapt, develop and prosper.