Talent Management Best Practice 4 – Know Your Artificial Employment Retainers

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golden handcuffsEvery manager should seek to know the stay/leave propensity of his or her subordinates and certainly that of top performers. While true knowledge of others’ intentions is unknowable and unpredictable opportunities arise, there are artificial retention mechanisms and observable signs that together suggest an individual’s inclination. Recognizing these signs and factoring them into an assessment of employee loss risk is important to a manager’s ability to retain top talent.

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Nathan Ives, StrategyDriven Principal is a StrategyDriven Principal and Host of the StrategyDriven Podcast. For over twenty years, he has served as trusted advisor to executives and managers at dozens of Fortune 500 and smaller companies in the areas of management effectiveness, organizational development, and process improvement. To read Nathan’s complete biography, click here.

Leadership Inspirations – Revealing Character

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“Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1834)
German writer, artist, and politician

Recommended Resources – The Complete Idiot’s Guide to LinkedIn

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The Complete Idiot’s Guide to LinkedIn
by Susan Gunelius

About the Book

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to LinkedIn by Susan Gunelius provides step-by-step instructions for using the full array of interactive tools provided by the professionals’ social media website, LinkedIn. Some of the topics covered include:

  • Creating a personal profile that is more than an online resume
  • Developing a dynamic company profile
  • Establishing a LinkedIn Group and attracting and engagement members
  • Connecting and interacting with others on LinkedIn
  • Formulating and executing on a LinkedIn marketing plan

Susan’s book provides tips and tricks throughout her book to help the reader be even more effective in their use of LinkedIn.

Benefits of Using this Book

In today’s business world, an online presence is critically important for individuals and businesses. We believe all professionals should have a complete, up-to-date LinkedIn profile as a part of their outward personal brand. Likewise, companies have an opportunity to attract customers and talent through their LinkedIn profiles.

StrategyDriven Contributors like The Complete Idiot’s Guide to LinkedIn for its clear, easy-to-follow instructions for making effective use of LinkedIn. We find LinkedIn to be a powerful tool for professional interactions and have successfully employed Susan’s recommendations to enhance our interactions. In fact, StrategyDriven‘s Company Page was developed using Susan’s instructions and is enjoying an ever increasing number of weekly visitors.

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to LinkedIn can accelerate a professional’s and company’s efforts to establish a quality LinkedIn presence and effectively engage with others online; making it a StrategyDriven recommended read.

Final Thought…

LinkedIn recently changed some of its ‘look and feel’ with respect to its Company Profile pages. We’ve tested these and found that while the look has changed the functionality remains largely the same and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to LinkedIn continues to be a sound reference for this LinkedIn functionality.

Business Communications Best Practice 4 – Limit Expanding Ambiguity

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StrategyDriven Business Communications Article | Growing UncertaintyWe’re familiar with the childhood game where a verbal message is shared child-to-child around a seated circle and the last person in the chain hears a message completely different than the original oration. We experience this same expanding ambiguity in our business communications. These, however, are not a game and the differences can greatly impact the bottom line. Consequently, the question becomes why do our communications morph and how can these changes be limited?

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StrategyDriven Advisory Services helps businesses become more operationally effective

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StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC launches StrategyDriven Advisory Services, a management consulting firm dedicated to helping executives and managers define organizational needs and develop and manage the complex, mission critical projects needed to improve operational effectiveness and lower costs in response to today’s most pressing challenges.
 
 
Business leaders face many complex challenges; an evolving regulatory environment, looming tax rate uncertainty and massive government spending cuts, changing workforce and customer demographics, and increasing global competition and downward pricing pressure.

StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC launched StrategyDriven Advisory Services (www.StrategyDriven.com) to help executives and managers define organizational needs and develop and manage the complex, mission critical projects needed to improve operational effectiveness and lower costs in response to today’s most pressing challenges.

“Business leaders face an unprecedented amount of change and uncertainty,” explains Nathan Ives, StrategyDriven’s newly appointed Chief Executive Officer. “As such, StrategyDriven Advisory Services was created to provide executives and managers with the insights of highly experienced peers who are themselves successful business leaders. These individuals support their clients’ business performance improvement efforts as well as helping them address today’s evolving regulatory regime.”

StrategyDriven Advisory Services expands on StrategyDriven’s core philosophy of achieving exceptional results through organizational alignment and accountability to established goals. Its seasoned advisors are supported by a collection of tools and methods specifically tailored to the unique needs of each client’s industry.

“Because of our advisors’ direct leadership experience, StrategyDriven Advisory Services will initially focus on the Energy, Non-Profit, and Government sectors,” asserts Greg Gaskey, StrategyDriven’s Chief Operating and Financial Officer. “We’ve made a significant investment to tailor our services to these industries’ specific needs due to our advisors’ unique qualifications within these sectors.”

StrategyDriven Advisory Services provides business leaders with actionable performance improvement insights in the areas of:

  • Strategic planning facilitation
  • Organizational performance measurement system implementation
  • Program and project management
  • Operations and operational risk management
  • Performance improvement program implementation
  • Business process optimization
  • Executive, manager, and supervisor performance improvement coaching

 
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