At a time when it is more imperative than ever for businesses to attract and retain talent, the people with 50 and more years old are part of a market that offers candidates with skills and experience of great value.
Nowadays the difference between one company and another is the talent its employees bring together, and as any staff manager can tell you, competition for attracting and retaining that talent is growing.
Self control of a leader's ego and being flexible when it comes to enrich ideas with contributions from his or her team can be critical for a company's future.
An employer can be as bright as they are stubborn. Like any good entrepreneur, you're so in love with your idea, and so happy with your project, that this can lead to resistance from hearing about alternative ways of doing things or that your original idea could be improved.
When businesses reach key moments that will determine whether they succeed or fail, those who are going to intervene must have the necessary skills.
As Alexander Aguilar exemplifies in his article on Elfinancierocr.com, every company should have clearly identified from among its colleagues who will take the "penalty shot" in order to score a goal in decisive moments.
The world today is Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity: job security and long-term retention concepts are doomed to extinction.
EDITORIAL
Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity (VUCA) is a concept originally used by the military which defines "those situations where strategy, planning and decision-making take on extraordinary levels of difficulty, because the decision maker lacks minimum parameters required to guide their judgment. "
Companies recognize how important managing a growing international and mobile workforce is for the future of their businesses, but they do not know how to do it.
Companies do not have an appropriate strategy to deal with the transformation that is happening the way of working in the world -from the convergence of five generations to operations spread across the planet- which will lead to a crisis in management, attraction and retention of talent, concludes the Workforce 2020 study, prepared by Oxford Economics and SAP.
There has been a rise in the number of firms reporting difficulties in recruiting qualified staff, especially technicians, engineers and sales managers.
In one year the number of companies who said they found it difficult to fill vacancies grew by 11%, according to figures from a survey carried out by the human resources firm Manpower, which states that "...
Feedback to employees should contain both praise and criticism.
In his discussion in an article in Martesfinanciero.com, Ernesto Bazan notes the importance of the art of the sandwich, when talking with employees about their performance evaluation.
Bazan highlights the sandwich technique as being "... a valuable management tool. Its effectiveness has been proven.
Recognized Brazilian company of backhoe loaders, telescopic, articulated and other types of cranes looking for companies interested in representing the brand and distributing their machinery in Central America and Mexico. The company manufactures and sells telescopic,...