Counter Offers, Human Capital & Retention
Counter-offer to a resigning employee?
In the post “maintaining performance during notice periods” The issues of the psychology of change were explored looking at the value of retaining people throughout their notice. This information and psychological state is equally valid when an employee has an offer and tenders their resignation, and we consider offering a “counter offer” in order to keep this “talent”
Counter-offers fall under the same category although many may not see it this way. When an employee has not only been active looking for another employer, been through two or more interviews and accepted an offer – they are psychologically ready to go. It’s NOT about the money (unless of course they asked for a raise & you previously declined it!), its about a breakdown in relations or lost opportunity somewhere. In which case you had your chance, and you failed to engage enough.
Psychologically they have “left the building”. Making them an offer that “keeps them” at this stage in the relationship is a risk, often all you have done is bought a few more months – they will leave… eventually. They have already made the decision to leave, otherwise they would not have handed their notice in! Let them go and learn from it. Why were they not on your talent plan who else have you missed? is the talent plan static and not personally engaging with these people?
Human Capital & Talent Retention
Great words but what do they mean? In simple terms it means identifying who is important to the success of your organization in the:
- Short term (say to complete a specific contract)
- In the long term to maintain a competitive advantage or edge over your competition
What we need to be doing with these “valued” or talented people, is nurturing them, engaging them, building a relationship that is beyond the “contract”. Your goal is to know when they are unhappy before they start looking elsewhere, and meeting their needs as they arise. Of course this is a delicate balance of value and worth along with a pinch of risk.
Engagement is the tool to combat losses.
Talent management is not about having a plan that identifies key people and roles that is not fully understood by all managers and leaders involved – and employees told about their importance – this is half of the battle.
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Is twitter a waste of time?
Is twitter a waste of time?
Is it?
Sure there are people that use twitter in very diverse ways – and that is a good thing. I know many people that have multiple accounts, some for “business” others for “very personal” uses. But the stats show that a significant percentage of users use twitter for product & service research.
So are you talking about what you had for breakfast or your products?
But twitter is more than just a marketing channel…
Learning
It is clear from this data that people are out to learn. learn about products, services or other facts. Are you using a micro blog system in your business to help people grow?
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SoLoMo or SoEnCo – Which is the sustainable future?
SoLoMo or SoEnCo? Which is the sustainable future?
Is it one, the other or are the very different things?
SoLoMo
Social, Local & Mobile – is certainly the “next big thing” but is it sustyainable, or a sign of the technology and social/ economic times we are in colliding. Is this just a part of societyies version of the centralise, decentralise approach?
SoEnCo
Social Media as a Social Enterprise Collaboration/ Co-operative approach
Networks and the way organisations are changing. the days of the “big Joint Ventures” (JV’s) are changing, with more and maore small organisations forming lose “joint ventures” to cross promote and collaborate
Collaboration forward
Few small businesses in isolation can harness IT, networks and other resources effectively, so we are going back to the days of the co-op’s. Co-operatives where people work together to share resources and results. With each person/ business having some “skin in the game”, or ownership.
A 2 way street
In the past I have attempted to get involved in several cooperative schemes, and the ones that work are where both contribute on a regular basis. One way streets just don’t work – for either party in the long run.
Some of the ventures however are starting to prove interesting…
Maybe we can have an approach which is SoLoMo AND SoEnCo… time will tell
#socialmedia #socialbusiness #collaboration
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Evan Carmichael’s Top 100 Productivity Experts Feb 2012
RapidBI in Evan Carmichael’s Top 100 Productivity Experts
Many of you may know Evan Carmichael’s site. Using a range of tools Evan measures and publishes top blogs and tweeters on a range of business related topics.
I am pleased to say that @RapidBI is increasing in the top 50. In this list we have increased from #36 to #25 – who knows how or why!!
We include only the top 50 here, to see the rest I would encourage you to visit Evan’s blog here
It’s a great list to follow, with some great tweeps here.
February 2012 Top 100 Productivity Experts to Follow on Twitter
 | #1) @HarvardBiz - Harvard Biz Review | |
 | #2) @tferriss - Tim Ferriss (#2 last month) | |
 | #3) @evernote - evernote | |
 | #4) @jowyang - Jeremiah Owyang (#4 last month) | |
 | #5) @StephenRCovey - Stephen R. Covey (#5 last month) | |
 | #6) @the99percent - 99% (#6 last month) | |
 | #7) @McKQuarterly - McKinsey Quarterly (#7 last month) | |
 | #8) @forrester - Forrester Research (#8 last month) | |
 | #9) @DanielPink - Daniel Pink (#9 last month) | |
 | #10) @Real_Simple - Real Simple Magazine | |
 | #11) @37signals - 37signals (Down from #10) | |
 | #12) @gtdguy - David Allen (Down from #11) | |
 | #13) @chrisguillebeau - Chris Guillebeau (Down from #12) | |
 | #14) @Caterina - Caterina Fake (Up from #15) | |
 | #15) @tom_peters - Tom Peters (Up from #16) | |
 | #16) @hnshah - Hiten Shah (Up from #18) | |
 | #17) @BrianTracy - BrianTracy (Up from #20) | |
 | #18) @AMAnet - American Management (Up from #22) | |
 | #19) @kenblanchard - Ken Blanchard | |
 | #20) @ManagementTip - Management Tip (Up from #23) | |
 | #21) @salesforce - salesforce.com (Up from #25) | |
 | #22) @frenchweb - frenchweb | |
 | #23) @MonsterCareers - Monster Careers (Up from #28) | |
 | #24) @eventbrite - Eventbrite (Up from #29) | |
 | #25) @WebWorkerDaily - WebWorkerDaily.com (Up from #31) | |
 | #26) @C4LPT - C4LPT | |
 | #27) @RapidBI - Mike Morrison (Up from #35) | |
 | #28) @mwbuckingham - marcus buckingham (Up from #36) | |
 | #29) @Gist - Gist | |
 | #30) @workawesome - Work Awesome (Up from #39) | |
 | #31) @PMInstitute - PMI | |
 | #32) @TMNinja - Craig Jarrow (Up from #41) | |
 | #33) @berkun - Scott Berkun (Up from #43) | |
 | #34) @DaleCarnegie - Dale Carnegie (Up from #44) | |
 | #35) @phyllismufson - Phyllis Mufson | |
 | #36) @aprildunford - April Dunford (Up from #45) | |
 | #37) @mikemyatt - Mike Myatt (Up from #49) | |
 | #38) @unclutterer - Unclutterer (Up from #47) | |
 | #39) @boxofcrayons - MichaelBungayStanier (Up from #50) | |
 | #40) @lifehackorg - Lifehack.org (Up from #51) | |
 | #41) @JWhite - Jay White (Up from #53) | |
 | #42) @gtdtimes - GTD Times (Up from #54) | |
 | #43) @JulieMorgenstrn - Julie Morgenstern (Up from #55) | |
 | #44) @BrianVellmure - Brian Vellmure | |
 | #45) @tonyschwartz - tonyschwartz (Up from #60) | |
 | #46) @work_matters - Bob Sutton (Up from #59) | |
 | #47) @StephCalahan - Stephanie LH Calahan (Up from #57) | |
 | #48) @ASTD - ASTD | |
 | #49) @Zendesk - Zendesk (Up from #62) | |
 | #50) @estherderby - estherderby (Up from #63) |
For reasons of copyright we have only included the top 50 here – please visit Evans site for the full list and other great materials.
About the Author: Evan Carmichael
RSS for Evan’s articles – Visit Evan’s website
Hi I’m Evan, You can learn more about me here: http://www.evancarmichael.com/EvanAbout.html
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Social media – hired or fired because of it?
Social media – hired or fired because of it?
Public social media is now a part of many people’s every day life, and as time goes by, increasingly it is being used as a tool against individuals. With many organisations publicly encouraging people to “go social” and often their customers wanting the opposite, it is only a matter of time before people are either “silenced” altogether – of firms and organisations will be outed for restrictive inappropriate behaviour
This research from Tribehr has some interesting factors:
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Change Curve Debunked?
Change Curve Debunked?
Some time ago I read an interesting post by Rob Robson on the change curve at his blog (Now defunct) .
This sparked some thoughts which I share below.
Change Curve debunked… really?
Rob asks is the Kubler Ross change curve an over simplification – yes of course… all models are over simplifications of reality – isn’t that what they were created for, to take a complex theory and enable the PRINCIPLES to be more easily understood?
He raises some interesting points that many authors do ignore that fact that many people welcome change. This is so very true, in OD and HRM we seem to assume the worst in people – when this is just not true. Sure people will reach different under change, and that is to be expected – our role is to ease that process – not offer therapy for change interaction!
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Social media & social business in small enterprises
Social media & social business in small enterprises
One of the major changes under way in very large and global businesses is the adoption of collaboration tools. Often these are social media based software tools which allow people from different business units or divisions to collaborate with others.
In an organisation which is not in competition with other divisions this makes sense, but what about small businesses?
Many of us in “micro businesses” collaborate on projects and mini- joint ventures, but what is the future for a more open approach? where people not just network but collaborate?
Will this happen, even if there is no obvious commercial gain for some parties?
Mike Morrison
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Our Technology Work Habits – are workers slack?
Our Technology Work Habits – are workers slack?
It had to happen. 20 years ago most people were banned from using the office phone for private calls, then email come in, and only a few “lucky” people had it… then the internet.
With many IT teams stopping 90% of users having general internet access. Today it is accessing specific sites that are most often blocked, namely social media related sites, and personal email sites.
So we have moved from not being allowed to even use technology for “non work use” to it slowly being a part of the way we work. But how “good” are we at using the technology? How much Time do we lose on the various tools available to us?
This research from desktime gives us some interesting insights.
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Top Management Tweeters – Feb 2012
RapidBI in top 100 Tweeters on Management
Many of you may know Evan Carmichael’s site, Evan has a goal of “Helping Brands Connect to Entrepreneurs”, and his site is a gold mine of who’s who in the business world.
Using a range of tools Evan measures and publishes top blogs and tweeters on a range of business related topics.
I am pleased to say that @RapidBI is again mentioned in this important and influencial list.
If you want to know “what is “hot” and what is not, then follow some of the top tweeps on this list.
We include only the top 50 here, to see the rest visit here
 | #1) @jack_welch – Jack Welch | |
 | #2) @McKQuarterly – McKinsey Quarterly | |
 | #3) @anandmahindra – anand mahindra | |
 | #4) @tom_peters – Tom Peters (Up from #11) | |
 | #5) @AMAnet – American Management (Up from #13) | |
 | #6) @kenblanchard – Ken Blanchard (Up from #15) | |
 | #7) @ManagementTip – Management Tip | |
 | #8) @Kriisiis – Christophe Ramel | |
 | #9) @frenchweb – frenchweb | |
 | #10) @joomla – Joomla! (Up from #19) | |
 | #11) @GlobalKnowledge – Global Knowledge (Up from #24) | |
 | #12) @camj59 – Camille Jourdain | |
 | #13) @RapidBI – Mike Morrison (Up from #26) | |
 | #14) @moderateur – Flavien Chantrel | |
 | #15) @heatherhuhman – Heather R. Huhman (Up from #27) | |
 | #16) @thecommunityman – Community Managers | |
 | #17) @NonProfitTimes – NonProfit Times (Up from #30) | |
 | #18) @PMInstitute – PMI (Up from #29) | |
 | #19) @Focus – Focus (Up from #31) | |
 | #20) @cmswire – CMSWire.com | |
 | #21) @MyCommunityMgr – Djivan Minassian | |
 | #22) @mitsmr – MITSloan Mgmt Review | |
 | #23) @jasonalba – Jason Alba | |
 | #24) @JulieMorgenstrn – Julie Morgenstern (Up from #41) | |
 | #25) @FistfulOfTalent – FistfulOfTalent (Up from #42) | |
 | #26) @AntoineDupin – Antoine Dupin | |
 | #27) @aponcier – Anthony Poncier | |
 | #28) @greatleadership – Dan McCarthy (Up from #51) | |
 | #29) @AskAManager – Alison Green (Up from #53) | |
 | #30) @estherderby – estherderby | |
 | #31) @ResumeStrategy – Karen Siwak (Up from #54) | |
 | #32) @profhamel – Gary Hamel (Up from #56) | |
 | #33) @MichaelNozbe – Michael Sliwinski (Up from #57) | |
 | #34) @momadvice – Amy Allen Clark (Up from #58) | |
 | #35) @RiskMgmt – Jared Wade | |
 | #36) @hackmanagement – MIX (Up from #60) | |
 | #37) @stevedenning – stevedenning | |
 | #38) @TLNT_com – TLNT (Up from #62) | |
 | #39) @PMvoices – PMI’s blog team | |
 | #40) @RogueCFO – Chris B, Rogue CFO | |
 | #41) @Toffeemen68 – Ian P. McCarthy | |
 | #42) @Akostic - Akostic | |
 | #43) @e_influenceur – Jérôme Deiss | |
 | #44) @BoozAllen – Booz Allen Hamilton | |
 | #45) @laurastack – Laura Stack | |
 | #46) @ema_research – EMA Research | |
 | #47) @TalentMgtMag – Talent Management (Up from #67) | |
 | #48) @ftbuseducation – Business Education | |
 | #49) @ppchero – PPC Hero | |
 | #50) @cision – Cision NA |
For reasons of copyright we have only included the top 50 here – please visit Evans site for the full list and other great materials.
About the Author: Evan Carmichael
RSS for Evan’s articles – Visit Evan’s website
You can learn more about Evan here: http://www.evancarmichael.com/EvanAbout.html
RapidBI is an organizational effectiveness consultancy based in the UK but working internationally.
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Why Must your Business go "Social"
Why Must your Business go “Social”
Because I have been using social tools both to “do” business and to grow and market my business I believe it is a critical way forward, and yet almost every day and in many meetings I meet people that just “don’t get it”
They think of “social media” as Facebook and Twitter – but social is more than that – its about collaborating with the right people, at the right time to solve a business challenge of deliver a business opportunity.
It’s more about “Social Business”
Using social tools to do business, both internally and externally is the way forward. It really is about people and not technology.
To help with the business case look at this excellent description wht social media can help in marketing and reaching customers…
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Leadership in a new world – changing demographics
Leadership in a new world – changing demographics
For many people in business part of their target audience (or suppliers) are startups, but do you know and understand their demographics?
For many of us we have suspected that the demographic of new businesses in our sector have been changing, the data shown in this graphic from “Simply Business” clearly shows there have been changes. Will this impact the way you hire or engage suppliers or sell your services?
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Collaboration, Management & Leadership for Change – in any Business
Collaboration, Management & Leadership for Change
Increasingly in business we need people to collaborate, indeed people WANT to collaborate, but are we giving them the tools for the job.
As the technology landscape changes, so do the tools and ways of working.
The days of the “corporate issued” laptop are coming to an end as people want to use the devices they feel most comfortable with. That means PC, windows, Linux, mac OS and of course tablets and other mobile devices.
Are you and your organisation ready for this change?
Mike Morrison
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organisational-organizational
Organisation or organization? The great spelling debate
What is the correct spelling?
There is a belief that it is spelt with an ‘s’ in the UK and in the US with a ‘z’.
In fact while the US spelling is with a ‘z’ the UK preferred spelling is also with a ‘z’ and as an alternative with an ‘s’.
This is true even in my 1972 Concise Oxford Dictionary.
So which is correct?
Both, with z being the preferred according to the dictionaries in both the US & UK. This ignores the debate that is also occurring in Canada and Australia!
| Some definitions (when you search for “organisation”): | ||||
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or·gan·i·za·tion | ||||
organisation |
Main Entry: or·ga·ni·sa·tion, or·ga·nise, or·ga·nis·er
British variant of ORGANIZATION, ORGANIZE, ORGANIZER
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There have been many debates about international spelling around the world these include this found on a debate about computer dictionaries:
My text is marked as English (UK) but it doesn’t flag spellings like organization.
It may come as a surprise to many, but most authoritative UK English dictionaries prefer the -z- spelling for many words, and have done so for decades. English (US) only allows -z- spellings, but other countries allow -s- & -z- interchangeably except: where a particular spelling is defined for a specific entity: e.g.Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation.
The Macquarie Dictionary also lists -z- spellings as permissible alternates. Some institutions or texts may have stylistic preferences for one over the other.
In theory you could add all the spellings you don’t like to an exclude dictionary, but there are many thousands of such words in many forms E.G.:
Organize, organized, organizing, organizer, organizers, organization, organizations, organizational, organization’s.
Some words only have -s- forms e.g. promise, premise, chemise, compromise, merchandise, franchise, enterprise, disguise, exercise, surmise, surprise.
See these links for more background on the ise/ize (and yse/yze) issue:
- http://www.tv.com/users/TheOldBill/profile.php?action=show_blog&entry=m-100-24642965&print=1
- http://www.electriceditors.net/edline/vol4/4-13.txt
- http://www.cbc.ca/news/indepth/words/quick/queries/iseize.html
- http://www.spellingsociety.org/journals/j6/rlp.php
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The Single Real Reason Why 99% of People Read a Blog…
The single real reason why 99% of people read a blog…
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Is most often because of the title!
Next it’s the reputation of the author 
What was you expecting 1000 words on how to make money blogging? –
It’s about timely titles and valuable content… done in an authentic way simples
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The Sneaky Psychology of Influence (selling) and Advertising
The Sneaky Psychology of Influence (selling) and Advertising
We all experience it everyday, but do we really appreciate just how easily we are swayed and influenced in our opinions
For example – what company do you associate with which of these logo colours?
Stop and think for a moment…..
The answer is at the bottom of this article. But before you scroll down… whoops too late for many of you, have a look at this info first:
Answer:
But of course none of us are influenced to do things we would not otherwise chose to do now are we…
Beans Meanz ……
actually no it doesn’t
A *** a day helps you work rest and play…. or does it
of course there are just “safe” associations arn’t they…
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The Structure of High Performance Teams
The Structure of High Performance Teams
Teams – we all know that increasingly organisations are moving from fixed functions, to project based dynamic teams
This graphic outlines an interesting 10 step approach to innovating team structures.
is it really –
or
I suppose it depends if you are striving for a “right first time” strategy or not
Mike Morrison
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5 Mistakes Made By Many New Leaders #RapidBI
5 Mistakes Made By New Leaders
We are all new to management & leadership at some time, what is interesting and disappointing is that often its the same mistakes that are made. When appointing new leaders for the first time, it is up to CEO’s and HR to ensure people are trained, mentored & supported to avoid these predictable and potentially costly mistakes.
Evan Carmichael has done a valuable job by highlighting these key points in this easy to read graphic.
Mike Morrison
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New Study Claims iOS Apps Crash More Than Android Apps
New Study Claims iOS Apps Crash More Than Android Apps
here is one that will upset many here on ecademy…
click on the images to see the original article at mashable originally by AppAdvice
One line from the article:
iOS 4.3.3 which has indeed been available for some time also caused a sizable 10.66 percent of mobile apps to crash.
Is interesting in itself.
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Leadership – going through the levels #RapidBI
Leadership – going through the levels
Identifying what leaders need at different positions, scopes and roles is an important one, however this infographic from skillsoft highlights the problem faced by many business and HR people alike…
what is leadership?
It seems that global leader skillsoft does not differentiate and believes that: leadership=management
this is such a shame, and it is no wonder that purchasers are confused
From a management skills perspective this is a useful piece – but for leadership development – the phrase “could do better” comes to mind
Mike Morrison
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Today’s thoughts February 10, 2012
- car crash carnage in ecademySo what happened
This morning I woke to see that only one person in the top 20 actually improved their score – Penny Power – the other 19 have dropped (inc Thomas to #2 again)
Has the scoring mechanism changed?
mmm strange things happening
Mike Morrison
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- Ecademy or LinkedIn – which is better for business?
Ecademy or LinkedIn – which is better for business?
I know that ecademy is loved by its members, unfortunately many of us/you dismiss LinkedIn as being for CV or recruitment, but not for doing business.
Less than 2 weeks ago I simultaneously places an advert in marketplace and posted in LinkedIn about a webinar I was running. The content was almost identical with one exception – the link.
On ecademy the view rate was listed as 372, however suffice to say we had over 300 registrations with less than 4 from ecademy as a source.
Suffice to say the webinar was a huge success with the twitter stream busy with chatter about the content, which is great promotion for the next event. I don’t know when that will be I need to start planning now. What I do know is – if you write off LinkedIn for business development then you are missing an important and engaged auduence
Mike Morrison - What Makes a Small Business Sink or Swim?
What Makes a Business Sink or Swim?
With an increasing percentage of the workforce now being employed in smaller businesses, SME’s and owner managed businesses are an increasingly important factor in any modern economy. Unfortunately not all start-ups or smaller business survive beyond 4 years of operation. So what is the difference between success & failure?
Mike Morrison
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- How to improve your meetings
How to improve your meetings
It does not matter if we work for small or large firms, the one sure guarantee is that part of our role involves participating in meetings. The more senior we become, the more meetings we attend.
The webinar we ran today reminded me of the wasted time that many of us endure during ineffective and poorly planned events.
This graphic is a great reminder of some of the key factors that can help us me more effective in our communications.
Mike Morrison
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