Editor's Note

How to retain top talent? How to manage a remote team? How to work with millennials? How to do performance management in a better way? These are some of the top trending topics among the workforce today. Every day there are new ideas to improve the productivity at work and the way we work. We have selected a handful of articles that talk about the above discussed topics. So, read on.

Why Companies Lose Top Female Talent?: Tips to retain them

There are many strong arguments for gender parity in leadership. A comprehensive study in 2016 by Peterson Institute for International Economics and EY focused on 22,000 publicly traded companies in 91 countries and found that having women in the highest corporate offices is correlated with increased profitability. The data from this study also showed an increase in the share of women in management positions overall is associated with a 15 percent rise in profitability for these firms. Simply put, the presence of women in leadership is good for business.

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Hard To Catch, Harder To Keep: How to engage the existing talent?

There’s no question that talent is now firmly in the driver’s seat of the recruitment process. Empowered by easy access to information, and surrounded with myriad employment options, talented candidates are calling the shots. In order to break through and be noticed, recruiters must offer content that is much more than simply informative. It must cry out for attention and interaction - beckoning candidates with personalization, entertainment and emotional appeal

Identify & Leverage The Right Talent Management Solution: 4 steps to help you get started

Any winning strategy needs a solid foundation. For talent management, that foundation is technology. The right talent management solution will make your life easier and ultimately improve your organization’s bottom line. But with all the options in the marketplace, how do you decide which solution is right for your organization? And how do you determine whether your company is ready for the changes that new technology will bring?

Managing A Remote Team: 3 tips to communicate, motivate and succeed

Location is increasingly proving to be an important consideration for top talent and its becoming apparent that many talented developers don't necessarily want to live in Silicon Valley. Large technology companies have paved the way for remote workforces, and now, small businesses who are competing for the same talent need to have strategies to compete and accommodate these new emerging employee needs. Originally reserved for field sales reps and engineers, remote teams are popping up in a variety of different functions. Here are three tactics to combat some of the common challenges of having remote members of your team.

Taking The Sting Out Of Criticism: How to do it?

Giving positive feedback is always easy, but what about those times when an employee is not performing and you need to give negative feedback? That can be a different story, especially for those who do not like confrontation. Managers need to be careful when dishing out negative feedback, and need to make sure that it is done constructively. It is important to tread carefully in order not to demoralize the employee. Most importantly when having to dish out negative feedback, it is important to always try to also acknowledge any positives the employee may have achieved first.

Managerial Training Matters: Middle managers are underprepared and overwhelmed—and they know it

The overwhelming majority of these new managers are not getting the support they need in order to be effective, and in turn, successful. All too often, employees spend their formative years learning to manage via trial-and-error, using junior employees as ‘guinea pigs’ to figure out what works and what doesn’t. This comes at the cost of low morale, poor productivity, and employee turnover.

Honoring Diversity During Challenging Times: 10 tips to help managers

As managers in increasingly diverse workplaces, how do we understand the challenges our people are facing at home while keeping the peace at work? How do we continue to talk about the value of diversity while embodying the principle of equality? How do we meaningfully connect with our employees and understand what is important to them without sounding racist, patronizing or at the very least, ignorant?

A Five-Step Process For Winning: Improving employee performance

Would you like to increase the performance of your leaders and team members? Desire alone will not create high-performance individuals or organizations. As with most practices, to create consistency and positive results, you must be prepared and organized. Use the following five steps from our Expectation Management Model© as part of your core business strategy to maximize performance: