The Power of Purpose: Why Offering Volunteer Opportunities is a Win-Win-Win
When you think of company perks and benefits, the obvious comes to mind: health, 401K, vacation, and the other baseline offerings that every company should offer. In order to stay competitive, many companies have been getting creative with their benefits to attract talent. Among many other great perks that benefit the employee, one stands out […]
In 2022, We’ll Finally Get Back to Work
If you were holding your breath for all of 2021, worrying over every headline about employees leaving their jobs in droves and candidates demanding exorbitant salaries, let me tell you one thing: It’s time to breathe. I’m not predicting that the economy is going to be great, nor will I predict there is a recession on […]
Spotting Your Team’s Next Leaders
First, and most importantly, we wish you all a very happy and healthy new year. As we dive into 2022, Leadership is perhaps even more important than ever for our organization and all of our clients we are supporting. Do you think you can pick out the person on your team who is ready to […]
The Pandemic Isn’t Going Away — Do I Still Reopen the Office?
One of the most frustrating parts about flying is when your plane has to circle the airport until you get permission to land. The worst part isn’t the delay — hey, it happens sometimes — but that you never know how long you’ll be stuck in a holding pattern. You get encouraging reports from the […]
How to Attract Job Seekers Who Are Still ‘Just Looking’
Something unexpected happened last month. A record number of American workers — an eye-popping 4.3 million — quit their jobs. To put that in perspective, it’s almost three percent of the entire workforce across the country. What’s even more astounding is that this trend got named the “Great Resignation” when the number of people leaving their […]
Leading With a Focus on Emotional Intelligence – and Now Even More Important, Emotional Agility
The number of employees headed back to the office has gone from a trickle to a steady stream. Here in New York City, our mayor just announced that all municipal workers who are still working remotely have two weeks to return to their desks. On Wall Street, the majority of the largest financial and investment firms […]
How a Boss Parts Ways with an Employee
Having to part ways with an employee because they don’t measure up is one of the toughest parts of any manager and leader’s job. But what’s worse is having to let someone go who is a real asset to the company. It happens all the time. Your organization merges two divisions, eliminates an entire department, […]
The Recipe for a Return to Normal
A year ago, the headlines were dire. “New York City is Dead Forever,” read one of the most memorable ones. More recently, another one was slightly more hopeful: “New York Is Not Dead, But It Is On Life Support.” There were plenty of predictions that the city — and cities in general, for that matter […]
How to Survive Employment’s ‘Perfect Storm’
When they look at the country’s economic situation, most experts are seeing only sunny skies. The commercial and industrial sectors are roaring back, the number of available jobs is hitting new records, jobless claims continue to fall, consumer demand is at all time highs — and the list goes on. But for a lot of […]
Seize More Than Just the Day
I thought that nothing could be worse than that moment two years ago when doctors informed me that my son, Ithan, had a brain tumor. As a parent, nothing on earth is more important to me than my children and we were completely blindsided by the news. It was utterly devastating but in hindsight this […]