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Joseph Daniel McCool |
The Business Case for Conscious Leadership
What’s preventing your company from reaching the next level? Diagnosing that organizational challenge surely requires equal measures of tenacity and patience. But getting to the underlying reasons that might explain why your organization isn’t consistently reaching its full potential demands a fresh look at individual leadership at the top of the organization. The critical nature and organizational multiplier effect of executive-level leadership often drives or drains investments meant to lift business performance, and behavioral science has…
Why an Effective Recruiting Strategy Hinges On A Sensible Retention Plan
Have you lost a talented and especially promising employee recently? If so, the thought of that individual’s departure probably conjures visions of all the process and procedure involved in properly facilitating their exit from your organization, as well as the time, effort and cost of recruiting their replacement. That is, if you can find and attract someone of the same caliber. For far too many employers, effective recruiting has been hampered by ineffectual corporate practices regarding employee…
Why a Thorough Background Check Has Become a Recruiting Insurance Policy
In the rush to climb the career ladder, it seems that more than a few people prefer the quickest route, no matter what ethical issues they’re forced to confront or, more common, those they choose simply to avoid. Yet despite the myriad ways that resumé fraud can endanger even the most sterling of management careers, failing to conduct a rigorous background check on a new hire can put the hiring organization in serious jeopardy. One executive recruiter…
When Key Employees Head For the Exits
One of the biggest challenges life sciences organizations have begun to face – and one that will extend through each of the next several years – is the task of retaining critical institutional know-how at a time when the most experienced managers have or are about to retire or depart for greener pastures. Sure, experienced managers have left before. But never before have so many qualified for retirement in such a relatively short window of time.…
Workforce Decisions Set Table for Client Experiences and Financial Performance
Today more than ever, the biggest decisions that set the course for future organizational performance and shareholder value are made about people and management. And as more employers struggle to define their own unique demands of leadership, more of those decisions are being made beyond the walls of the HR Department. Decisions about internal job assignments and promotions, about external recruitment, and about other culture-forming elements of the employment proposition like compensation, benefits, training and succession…
Recruiting For Competitive Advantage
An increasing body of knowledge tells us that companies that put people first finish first. Organizational climate – including employee morale, engagement and workplace culture – accounts, by some measures, for as much as 40% of corporate financial performance in any given year.
So it should come as no surprise that the shareholder value generated by companies included on various “Best Places To Work” lists far surpasses the stock price gains posted by their industry peers. Collectively,…