Top talent is what every employer hopes to attract and what every employee wants to be, but the question becomes: How do you define “top talent?” And, once you do, how do you retain it? This article digs deeper into…
High potential employees are the most actively recruited – for obvious reasons. Every company on the planet – especially in today’s tight labor market – wants intelligent, talented, and hard-working people. For this reason, high potential employees can also be…
Employee retention is an often-undervalued metric in the business world. Many businesses rate their success based on profitability, consumer preference, and market share. Yet, success should also be understood through employee retention and satisfaction. There are multiple factors that influence…
Changes are happening faster than ever for businesses today. Agile methods acknowledge that this calls for a responsive and flexible form of software development. Agile methods focus on adaptive planning, customer input, and short delivery times. The application of Agile…
Empathy in business, if it has gotten any attention at all, has typically been relegated to the realm of Human Resources. It gets glossed over in orientation and diversity training, and after that, it’s primarily a tool for conflict resolution.…
For all levels of leaders – from brand new managers to C-suite executives – leadership training offers a path towards expanding the capacity of leaders in your organization to operate in the roles they currently possess, and the roles you…
“Personality test” is a phrase that evokes a wide range of reactions. Some find personality tests highly useful; others find them useless. Our take? If not overdone, they can be effective tools for self-discovery, adding great value to your personal…
In the cult-classic film, Kill Bill, the character Beatrix Kiddo possesses two qualities that earn her the top performance spot according to The Skill Will Matrix. Albeit a fictional character, for Kiddo, those qualities would be a fierce will and…
Self-confidence is one of the most helpful qualities you can demonstrate in life, in business, and as an applicant to a management consulting firm. Yet by and large, aspiring consultants don’t work on their self-confidence in the same way they…
Big data is a term that describes the large amount of data – both structured and unstructured – that a business can access on a day-to-day basis. Like the term “the cloud,” the term big data can seem complex. In…