Let’s get real.
For your business to succeed, you need a team of happy & productive employees.
Which means you need to keep your best people. Otherwise, you’ll always be scrambling to get new ones onto your leaky ship.
But how can you keep your best people when we’re at 3.7% unemployment? And when 90,000 headhunters like me are calling them every day?
Here’s the irony:
To keep them, you need to help them advance their career. That’s right… You have to do everything in your power to prepare them to leave you.
You need to help them advance their career. Develop new skills. Build their confidence. Master new skills.
But yikes. If you do that, they might leave you.
Maybe.
Or they may be so grateful …and learning so much… that they can’t afford to leave you. Even when the phone rings.
These 2 goals conflict - growing them & keeping them. So, I found an expert Marti Konstant of Konstant Change, to help us make sense of it all. For 10 years, she’s been developing the concept of ‘Agile Careers.’ She knows more about it than anyone I’ve met.
In this 20-minute conversation, she reveals what’s most important to your best people. And how to ensure they never leave you.
In 1991, Mark Kaufman started as a physical therapist. 28 years later, he’s built Athletico into the dominant force in physical therapy.
Based in Chicago, Athletico now has 400 Midwestern locations with 4,500 employees.
And importantly, Mark had the forethought in 2011 to have a third-party start measuring outcomes… something not often done in the field.
Recently, BDT Capital Partners made a significant long-term growth equity investment in the company.
In this 20-minute conversation, Mark reveals how he built the industry-leading company, one foam roller at a time.
Rachel Ohlsson is a Rockstar who recruits Rockstars.
Easier said than done.
As Manager of Talent for Chicago-based Oak Street Health, the fast-growing group of primary care centers for adults on Medicare in medically-underserved communities, Rachel’s learned one of the keys:
The ‘WOW!’ interview.
Rockstar candidates who aren’t impressed by the way you interview them aren’t likely to say Yes.
In this 20-minute conversation, Rachel reveals everything she knows about the WOW! interview and how to incorporate it into your hiring process.
Grab a pen for this one.