Staff Recruitment and Retention

04/09/08 10 Trends Reshaping the Talent Quest Don’t assume that a slowed economy will make it any easier to hire the professional staff you need. You can’t effectively face 21st-century talent wars with 20th-century tactics. Kerry Harding
12/13/06 1 Recruitment Realities These days, in addition to a baseline skill set and a knockout portfolio, employers are looking for another dimension - influencing skills.
10/19/06 Changing the Productivity Paradigm What struck me most about this exercise was that, without exception, the term “productivity” had an immediate, negative connotation. That is part of the problem. Kerry Harding
09/26/05 LEAP by Design: The Leadership, Empowerment and Accountability Program The future success of your firm is linked to how well you manage and motivate your employees as well as hold them accountable.
09/26/05 Designer Compensation: How Important is Money, Really? As the economy grows stronger and the range of new work expands, there is a renewed focus on the importance of attracting and retaining qualified staff. In the scramble to attract and keep top talent, compensation once again becomes a much-discussed topic for both employers and employees. Robert Smith
09/08/05 Transitions, August 2005 21 transitions.
07/26/05 8 to 5 Office Time No Longer Applies One afternoon early in my career, I was in my office when I noticed one of my direct reports coming back from lunch around 2:30 p.m. As I approached, I noticed he had been to the barber. I asked if he was just coming back from lunch and the barber shop. He responded in the affirmative. I looked at him quizzically, hesitated, frowned—then raised my eyebrows and said. “You got your hair cut on company time?” Williston Dye, AIA
03/21/05 Footnotes on Compensation Trends From the 2005 Architecture Compensation Survey.
03/21/05 Architectecture Compensation Survey: By the Numbers Significant numbers and facts from our architecture compensation survey.
03/21/05 The Future Demands Meritocracy: Reward Your Top Performers Architecture, engineering, and design firms spend more than $20 billion in the U.S. alone on salaries and benefits. All too often we pay the same salary for very different levels of talent—and service. James P. Cramer

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