Are you noticing that a greater number of your employees have started leaving you? If they haven’t already, they soon may start: just 30% of employees surveyed recently said they planned to stay with their current employers post-pandemic.   Why the potential exodus? Several theories have popped up. Many workers were quite unhappy with their …

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Steve Bates, principal and global leader at KPMG’s CIO Center of Excellence said that chief executive officers everywhere are facing an incredible amount of pressure brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic:  the crisis has CIOs “stuck in a whack-a-mole environment,” one that’s proven incredibly hard to emerge from. Still, the pandemic has shown it’s critical …

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You’ve worked hard, done more than has been asked of you, thought “outside the box,” and came up with some great ideas that either saved your company money or made money.   You’re a great employee, frankly!   Your boss knows it. Her boss knows it. Your colleagues know it.  There’s a great opportunity coming up within your company, and …

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Mentorship programs have had somewhat of a makeover lately. Where once (the 1970s) they were used to develop young, male,  middle class, largely non-diverse college graduates into corporate executives, they’ve since expanded, especially in recent years. Business owners, company executives, and HR managers have realized potential leaders are everywhere. In fact, many mentorship programs no …

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As the U.S. economy rocks and rolls toward recovery, one would assume that Chief Financial Officers might be breathing sighs of relief. And they are, most of the time. But as the economy continues to surprise us (the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported 266K jobs added to payrolls in April while economic experts had predicted …

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Have you heard of Business Resource Groups (BRGs)? No? A BRG – sometimes also referred to as an Employee Resource Group, or ERG – is a “voluntary, employee-led group that fosters a diverse, inclusive workplace” while still maintaining alignment with an organization’s goals, mission, objectives, etc. BRGs pretty much started as ERG but have since …

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Even great managers – wonderful managers – may sometimes ask you to do something that – while not actually illegal – feels “iffy” or “off” to you. As in unethical or immoral. It could be that it’s acceptable throughout the larger culture in which we all live, but it feels unethical in the one in …

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If you’re reading this, chances are good you live in the South. You also may not have been able to gas up this morning. And it’s all because of a ransomware incident of the Colonial Pipeline system on May 7. (The company moves about 45 percent of all the fuel used on the East Coast. …

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