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Three Critical Steps to Increasing Accountability in Your Organization

Sep 27, 2017 12:19 pm
Written by Sid Smith
First, let’s define accountability in real-world business terms. You have financial, sales, service, and operational goals that enable your company to grow and thrive. Company leaders, managers, and employees must “do stuff” every week to meet those goals. Any amount of “not doing” (lack of execution) will keep you from achieving your goals. Accountability is […]

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How Millennials Can Help You Build a Better, Stronger Company

Sep 27, 2017 12:11 pm
Written by Sid Smith
[Part 2 in an ongoing series about millennials in the workplace. See part 1, which outlines “The Top 5 Things Millennials Want from You“] According to a 2015 Gallup survey, more than two-thirds of Millennials believe it’s management’s job to provide accelerated development opportunities to encourage them to stay. Other surveys show that the average […]

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Conversations with Millennials: The Top 5 Things Millennials Want from You

Aug 7, 2017 4:06 pm
Written by Sid Smith
[Note: This is the first in a series of articles on hiring and working with millennials, stemming from conversations Suzanne Hanifin and Karen Anderson of Acumen Executive Search and I are having with a mix of millennials. The Podcast recordings of these conversations will be released soon. If you’d like to get on our Podcast […]

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What if Everyone is WRONG About Millennials: Millennial Engagement Revisited?

Jun 5, 2017 10:13 am
Written by Sid Smith
Gallup loves them some data. In a lengthy report, they characterized millennials as the least engaged generation (29%), the most indifferent about their jobs, and the most open to “new job opportunities” (60%). According to many experts, millennials most desire a job that feels worthwhile. They may choose purpose or meaning over money – a […]

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When Harry Crashed His Plane: Ideas for Increasing Resiliency and Accountability

May 31, 2017 11:03 am
Written by Sid Smith
Harry pulled back on the throttle in a last-ditch effort to ease his single-engine Cessna onto the razor-thin beach. His plane skidded, then tumbled end over end on the fine black sand, coming to a stop inches before the jungle’s edge. Hours later he awoke, gingerly stepped from what remained of his only transportation off […]

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The Five Words that May be Killing Your Business

May 5, 2017 10:16 am
Written by Sid Smith
How to destroy employee engagement in five simple words “Let me think about that…”  In a recent Gallup article, Jim Clifton said, “Most lousy-to-good cultures are well-meaning. God bless them for that. They just don’t know what to do. So they do what is easy — they deliver ‘satisfaction’ to the troops.”  Good cultures have […]

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You Think You’ve Got a Great Culture. What’s in Your Employer Brand?

Apr 28, 2017 10:00 am
Written by Sid Smith
84% of all employees would consider leaving their current jobs if offered another role with a company that had an excellent corporate reputation.  Companies with the best reputations will get the cream of the crop executives and employees. And, if the living, breathing day-to-day culture matches their reputation, these same companies will KEEP those great […]

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Decoding the Latest Buzzword: Employer Branding

Apr 14, 2017 8:54 am
Written by Sid Smith
What is “Employer Branding”? Hiring the best people is hard work. Ask any recruiter worth his or her credentials. And, in today’s employee-driven market, employers are looking for new and better ways to lure top people into their company. Hence the birth of a new buzzword: Employer Branding. Like old-time cattle ranchers, marketers love to […]

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Why Your 2017 Goals are Already Toast (and 3 Steps You Can Take to Enjoy the Meal)

Apr 4, 2017 12:15 pm
Written by Sid Smith
We’re already into April, the second quarter of 2017. Yeah, those first three months blew by. We had snow, ice skating on local ponds, and enough rain to scare a few Californians back to the safety of their usually parched land. There’s still time to pull your 2017 goals from the pit of despair, but […]

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Beware the Ides of March (Or NOT): A Simple 10-Question Assessment

Mar 15, 2017 11:56 am
Written by Sid Smith
A body at rest has three choices. It can remain where it is. It can move toward something. Or, it can be repelled away from something. Likewise, your business can simply go through the daily motions, doing what you’ve always been doing, neither moving toward or away from something. You can set clear goals to […]

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