Most leaders (well, most good leaders, anyway), would agree that onboarding is a key part of the employee development process. Just as a baby needs a smack on the butt to start breathing, your new team members need something to help them get started at the beginning of their employee life wth you. They feel […]

When you provide your employees with professional development opportunities, you want to try to hold onto them afterwards, rather than having them run off to your competitors with skills and training for which you have paid. This makes sense. But try not to overdo it. When I was in the military, they paid for all […]

Whether it’s seeing retail clerks in Bangkok spending the day staring at their phones, or talking with executives in Singapore concerned about junior employees leaving after only 8 months, it’s clear that something needs to change in Southeast Asia’s workforce if companies and economies here are going to grow. My observations over the last 5 […]

Do your employees really know everything? Or do they just think they do? If it’s the latter, they may be stuck in a fixed mindset, and if so, that’s no good for you. Dr Carol Dweck of Stanford University is a leading researcher studying the idea of “mindset.” She suggests that Mindsets are beliefs — […]

If South Park’s underpants gnomes were talent management leaders, their organization’s talent strategy might look something like this: All too often, companies look for superstars whom they can steal away from others and put to good use. The problems is, this often does not work out so well for the superstar or their new home. […]