Manage your talent

Brain drain – Prevention is better than cure

moder — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:27:11 +0700

As a manager, how do you feel if your best employees one by one leave the company? Surely, this experience poses uncomfortable feelings to you. Nowadays not only small and medium enterprises but also large corporations are facing brain drain. Once talented people decide to leave, they will not bother thinking again even if their managers try their best to keep them. So what should you do to retain talent? The answer is the right talent retaining strategy!

How do we define talent?

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Twelve lessons from Jack Welch’s leadership style

moder — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:59:30 +0700

When Jack Welch took over GE in 1981 and became the youngest CEO in GE’s history, the legendary leader made a resolution to transform GE into the world’s most competitive enterprise. Welch is a strategic thinker, business teacher, corporate icon and management theorist. If leadership is an art, then surely Welch has proved himself a master painter. With his unique leadership style and character, Welch made history during his 2-decade journey at GE. While most leaders talk a good game on leadership, he lived it.
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Manage less, inspire more

moder — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:07:43 +0700

It is undoubtful that high-quality staff is the top factor that contributes most to the growth of companies. Given that reason, employers have done everything to develop and retain their best employees. The secret behind a successful retention policy turns out to be simple “Give employees a chance to do their best and they will look forward to working for you.”
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Retain talent with attractive compensation

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:54:38 +0700

That’s what Hermanwan Kartajay – the Chairman of International Marketing Association - shared in his recent visit to Vietnam.

High investment high return

An owner of a food distribution company in Pham Ngu Lao Street (District 1, HCMC) said: “In mid-2006, in face of the global integration and Vietnam’s preparation to join the WTO, I decided to hire a Marketing Director and pay him 30
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Job hopping – have you done enough to keep your talent?

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:54:36 +0700

As soon as recognizing talented employees’ intention to leave the organization, managers immediately find ways to keep them by promising to provide attractive promotion and other tempting benefits… However, brain-drain still occurs in organizations. Fortunately, this chronic disease can be avoided with the remedy “Prevention is better than cure.”

What are the most common symptoms?

Before quitting job, employees tend to take annual leave regularly (to
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How to attract and retain talent?

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:54:34 +0700

The secret of successful businesses not only lies in having smart people but also having right people in the right positions and the policy of retaining talent. That’s why leaders always spend a lot of time on allocating right people in the right team to achieve the highest efficiency at workplace.

1. Choose the right talent during interviewing process

A team of talented employees will bring
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Using humor to retain employees

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:54:32 +0700

Are you a cheerleader at work? How do you make your staff contribute their best talents and skills? It’s amazing that with a little humor, you will make your company an enjoyable workplace for your people and you yourself.

Story 1:

WestJet Airlines crew had turned the usually boring safety announcement into a stand-up comedy routine. The crew has turned the usual “emergency landing announcement” into
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Don’t tell your staffs what to do

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:54:26 +0700

Managers still think their job is to tell people what to do. But it’s not the right way to manage your staff. If you want results, stop telling employees what to do and, instead, ask them thought-provoking questions.

In reality, workers know much more about the work they are doing than the boss does. Being told what to do can actually sap their motivation for the job.
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What makes new leaders successful?

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:54:24 +0700

You’ve just been promoted to be one of the big-shots in the company. You aren’t familiar with the new position and don’t know how to lead your staffs to achieve the common goals of your department and the company as a whole. You’re wondering what action a leader should take in his first new days?

1. Reach the consensus

Some of your staffs used to be your colleagues,
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MAGIC tricks for great leaders

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:54:22 +0700

Great leaders always have their own magic tricks which make them respectable and outstanding in the organization. Let’s observe how they think, and how they take action to find out where the tricks are lying.

A limited budget brings good news.

It seems to be absurd, but great leaders consider limited budget as good news because this is a challenge for them to:

Be more
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