by Bill Bliss | Mar 14, 2018 | Communication
Last week, I was facilitating a planning session on sales goals for a client. The first question I asked the group of five participants was, “What does your company offer which is far and above what your competitors offer?” The discussion on just this question went on...
by Bill Bliss | Feb 28, 2018 | Employee Hiring & Retention, Uncategorized
If you have been in the market to hire or replace someone on your team lately, you will agree we are in a war for top talent in all sectors and job disciplines. I suppose everyone would like to have top talent on their team, yet the question is, “Are You Attracting...
by Bill Bliss | Feb 21, 2018 | Communication, Leadership, Teams
Imagine being a CEO, community leader or politician and receiving a vote or letter of “no-confidence” signed by those you are leading. Ouch! Darryl Duncan is the CEO of a hospital in Morgantown, WV and according to WVNews.com, he received such a letter in early...
by Bill Bliss | Jan 18, 2018 | Employee Hiring & Retention, Uncategorized
A few years ago I had a call from Chris, a client who was the Chairman of his organization. Chris told me he had just hired a man named Jim as his new CEO, and asked me to conduct an assessment of Jim’s fitness for the role. After we joked Chris’s call would have been...
by Bill Bliss | Jan 1, 2018 | Employee Hiring & Retention
Hiring a new employee is always a risk. No matter how much you try to learn about someone through interviews, references, and other traditional methods before making a job offer, you can’t be certain the candidate will succeed. To reduce that risk, many organizations...
by Bill Bliss | Dec 18, 2017 | Employee Hiring & Retention
In conversation with a coaching client, he was lamenting about a particular team member who had recently resigned. This action had come as a surprise to my client. But as we discussed this situation, it became clear to me how the environment my client had created for...
