GUEST EDITOR’S NOTE

Every company is driving toward increased performance and employee engagement. But how do you achieve these lofty goals? One thing is clear, what worked in past won’t work in the 2015 workplace.

Talent On Demand: Where to start?

One of the most important human capital trends in recent years is the rise of the “on-demand workforce.” A growing proportion of workers in Canada and around the world are working on a contract, contingent, part-time or other basis. It’s a trend that’s reshaping how organizations think about their talent strategies—and giving rise to unexpected new challenges. How can Canadian organizations capitalize on this trend and strengthen their workforce capability?

Talent Management Excellence June 2015 Advertisers

Retaining New Hires: Creating an effective onboarding program

Creating an effective onboarding program - one that prepares your new hires for the reality of your organization as a whole and their new role in particular - is the best way to safeguard against this. Your new hires are filled with expectations about their job. These expectations may be accurate or not, but if you fail to align them with the reality of the company, you will lose the engagement of your employees and even your employees themselves. Failure to align your organization’s brand with the actual culture is detrimental to your entire company, but most especially to your new hires. It generates mistrust and misunderstanding, which is the last thing you want as an organization. Not feeling respected in the workplace was one of the top five reasons employees quit in 2013. (Source)

Millennials Workforce: 5 ways to make them want to stay

If you haven't heard - there's this awesome company that everyone dreams of working for. Every person likely uses this company's services multiple times daily –it is called Google. We can't all work for Google, or Yahoo, Facebook, or Instagram - but what employers can do is bring their stolid 1990s office into 2015. Nobody dreams of working in a grey cubicle… being micro-managed and having a cold call quota - this is not Death of a Salesman. Millennials believe in their worth and they prove this every time they stay at a job less than a requisite 2-year period. How can we encourage them to stay longer? How can you ensure you aren't throwing away their annual salary?

Soda, Cigarettes & The Annual Performance Review: Hope for humanity

If we can get smarter about what we devour, we should be able to do the same with the disdained annual performance review. Thankfully, we are. Perhaps nothing in the HR field is under as much attack these days as the annual performance review, an event typically loathed equally by both employee and manager. As they prepare for this meeting, both parties need to gather their thoughts, notes and memories -- a year’s worth of points of interest, highs and lows, successes and missteps, requests and suggestions. And then go through it all in 30 or 60 minutes.

Being A High Potential: The pressure of expectation

To start, know that you are not alone if the idea of managing pressure is new to you. When conducting research on over 12,000 individuals from around the world to research our New York Times best-selling book, Performing Under Pressure, we were surprised to learn that most people take a haphazard approach to pressure. They don’t think about how they handle pressure, much less use the latest findings in neuroscience to guide them.

Healthcare Talent: Staff turnover top concern among healthcare hiring managers and recruiters

You already know how important it is to seek out and hire the best talent for your organization. This is especially true of fast-growing fields such as healthcare, which is expected to produce one in three of the new jobs in the U.S. over the next decade and about five million jobs overall by 2022.

Do You Have A Culture Deck?: Here’s why your HR team needs one

Culture specifics vary widely depending on the industry and the organization. There are companies that operate in silos with segregated offices and formal interaction. Then, there are businesses that run more informally, with ping pong tables in break rooms and open floor plans with people rotating desks on a weekly basis.

Winning The Talent War: Strategies to reduce your employment expenses

Statistics show that employers are currently advertising to fill 51 million open positions, an all-time record. Many business owners complain bitterly about the lack of talent in the hiring pool—especially in sales, technical jobs and trades. There are several factors causing this disconnect between employers and prospective employees. You should be aware of them if you intend to compete in the Talent Wars.