I recently saw an article about a nine year old boy in Denver who took his own life after being bullied during his first four days of school. My youngest son is eight and I can’t imagine him ever feeling like his only choice is suicide. When my oldest was in elementary school he was bullied by another child at his daycare. While he has always been a very headstrong child, the bullying continued to the point where he had put up with enough. Together we sat down with his martial arts instructor, who is phenomenal at working with children
In writing about how to increase your candidate pool, multiple LinkedIn comments cropped up related to hiring workers over 50. For example, one comment read: “Don’t practice age discrimination or you could miss out on some rock steady workers. Those who give thumbs down to the over 50 crowd really do miss out on some great employees.” Through these comments, it was obvious I should have added a 5th way to increase your candidate pool in the article: Include Older Workers. Also through these comments, there were reasons included as to why hiring workers over 50 is a good idea.
My LinkedIn Daily Rundown feed started out today with “Jobs are cutting experience requirements….” Reporting that, “an extra 1 million jobs were opened up to candidates last year with “no experience necessary.’” There is a lot of buzz about the hot job market now with the unemployment rate at a pre-recession low. But what do you do to fill jobs in this economy? As the Daily Rundown suggests you can: Lower requirements.Whether it be experience, education or skill requirements, lowering them can increase candidate pools. I often find that job descriptions have qualifications in them that really aren’t “required” to be successful
So far, #SHRM18 has proven to be an inspiration of ideas and people. My top takeaways from the Windy City include: “Drama is emotional waste.” @CyWakeman I love Cy Wakeman and her book, Reality Based Leadership. In her presentation, Cy described how our brains are binary. We toggle between the lower order brain, our ego, where drama exists and our higher order brain. Our higher order brain allows us to focus on reality in order to respond in creative, innovative ways. Cy’s message is that a leader’s main job is to toggle people up to the higher order brain by
“Being original doesn’t mean being first. It just means being different and better.” Adam Grant, Originals Most of us strive to be better. Few of us strive to be different. But what if being different is a requirement for being better? For being an original? Turns out that to take better beyond just ourselves, we have to be both. We have to be non-conformists in order to move the world, according to Adam Grant, author of Originals. And because our goal at Horizon Point is to build a better workplace through innovative people practices, we’ve chosen Originals, our 2017 Book of the