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The Disconnect that Keeps Your Company from Performing at its Peak

Strategy Driven

These executives tell me frankly that they don’t have the revenue stream, the market share, or the margins their products and services deserve. Typically, Finance, Marketing, and Operations all have input, direct or indirect, on the creation and revision of the strategic plan. I call this obstacle The Disconnect.

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Recommended Resource – The No Asshole Rule

Strategy Driven

We believe workplace hostility is a leading contributor of diminished moral, reduced productivity, and elevated attrition; all of which poison an organization’s culture and hurt its bottom line. Recommended Resource – Finance Without Fear. See StrategyDriven ‘s Diversity and Inclusion topic area.)

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The Boomers are Leaving! – How to Create and Implement a Knowledge.

Strategy Driven

What is the historic attrition and turnover rate and how do these map to the skills that keep you competitive? Gina has covered a wide range of business topics that include keeping Boomer skills in the workplace, teaching finance to non-finance professionals, and growth and change in urban and suburban business clients.

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The Boomers are Leaving! – How to Create and Implement a Knowledge.

Strategy Driven

Quantitative measures, such as attrition data, employee performance data, and program attendance rates give you the numbers you may need to defend your program to executives. Become a Facebook fan for discounts on Baby Boomer products and more Trackbacks Check out what others are saying about this post. Petersburg, Florida.

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Could HR be the most data driven function?

HR Digest

If you analyze functions like finance, IT, and marketing you will find common drivers of success. Make models of which candidates are probably going to experience a drop in engagement and productivity. Workforce Productivity. HR can utilize analytics to identify key factors that directly affect productivity (i.e.

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It’s Better to Avoid a Toxic Employee than Hire a Superstar

Harvard Business Review

And while some question whether such special treatment is appropriate , it’s clear that this group has outsize influence: high-performers have been estimated to be four times as productive as average workers, and research has shown that they may generate 80% of a business’s profits and attract other star employees.

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Don’t Move to Silicon Valley Without Preparation

Harvard Business Review

You have no funding, but you have to convince some engineer who’s already juggling 15 job offers (including offers from Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google) to join you to help finish your product. The company has 10,000 customers for their helpdesk software-as-a-service product, and thus far, $6 million in financing. Costs are low.