Research shows how critical a well-planned onboarding process is to employee retention. Knowing that organizations with a standard onboarding process experience 54% greater new hire productivity, along with 50% greater new hire retention is worth noting. Even though this is the case, many companies do not have formal onboarding. Does…
Virtual interviews have been around for quite a while, but the commonality has grown significantly with the advance of technology and our current challenge of social distancing. If you have gotten comfortable with jumping on a video call, you may have become accepting of your cat walking by your camera…
As a business executive, you are likely running at top speed while juggling dozens of responsibilities. You may feel like you have to keep up this pace, or the whole organization will crumble around you. With all the pressures of running and maintaining a successful business, is it even possible…
The #1 thing that holds anyone back is fear. It’s a basic human reaction. If we take all the fears we have in life, they narrow down to 3 categories: Fear of failing, fear of not being accepted by others and the fear of dying. All three of these have…
For the last several weeks, back-to-school sales have overtaken stores of every shape and size. They know students will come, armed with a long list of required supplies, to stock up for the school year. These purchases are meant to prepare and equip the students for the work ahead. This…
In the retained executive search business, we are privileged to “come alongside” leaders at various stages in their careers—and in their lives. Often, it is during an exciting time, when a leader is considering joining one of our client’s C-suite teams. Or, it might be a time when a leader…
There are several things that are great about career transition--#1 being you have more time, the most precious commodity of all. There are some great books out there about the career transition process. Here are a few you may want to peruse. 7 Extremely Helpful Books to Read During Career…
In an ideal world, every organization would have a thorough and well-executed onboarding process in place. Every new employee would feel enthusiastically welcomed into their new team. Every new hire would receive plenty of training and knowledge to set them up for success from day one. If we lived and…
Krissi Barr, executive coach, corporate strategist, author and friend of Centennial, has helped businesses of all sizes make the most of their resources. We are honored to share some of her leadership insights with you today. Dogs have a natural genius for leadership. We arrived at this conclusion after many…
