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Ignite Global is a leader in hiring, motivating and retaining top talent with management capability employee engagement, productivity and retention candidate.
future of work, The Great Resignation
9600 Great Hills Trail, Suite 150W Austin TX 78759
Ignite Global is a leader in hiring, motivating and retaining top talent with management capability employee engagement, productivity and retention candidate.
future of work, The Great Resignation
9600 Great Hills Trail, Suite 150W Austin TX 78759
Right, so I’m back after almost 6 weeks. What did I miss? Other than a new PM in Australia, more gun violence in the US…and the fact that, according to the OECD, Australia has the second tightest skills market in the world.
You may have noticed that I haven’t been posting much over the last 5 – 6 weeks because I’ve been in the US speaking at the annual Association for Talent Development (ATD) conference (funnily enough about employee retention).
Following that, I was on a dive holiday in Far North Queensland (stay tuned for Friday’s post, which will include sharks, turtles, barracuda and an assortment of more of my fishy friends.)
Now down to business. It won’t come as a shock to anyone in Australia reading this post that we are in a very skills-short market. According to both The Australian Financial Review (AFR)and SmartCompany, the OECD’s Economic Outlook for June pegged our skills shortage as second only to Canada’s in the developed world.
Specifically, last week the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) showed 420,000 vacant jobs. According to Smart Company, this translates into 2.8% of the labour market — or one in 35 jobs — being empty.
I’m currently fielding 2 questions from clients in Australia and the US about the skills shortage.
🙋♂️ “Now that the borders are open in Australia how long will it be before our skills shortage abates?” and
🙋♂️ “The upcoming US recession will surely help the skills shortage (and put realign candidates’ expectations), right?”
I will answer the first question today and the second tomorrow.
The border closures certainly have not helped the Australian skills shortage – nor have they been the main reason behind it. This is a structural skills shortage that we’ve seen coming for a while now, and it primarily has to do with the ageing population in Australia. The Commonwealth’s Intergenerational Report said that over the next 40 years Australia’s participation rate will go down by almost 25% due to our ageing population.
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In 2009 CEO and founder Kim Seeling Smith started Ignite Global after deciding that instead of being paid to put bums in seats (working as a recruiter for the 15 years prior to that) she wanted to help More
According to the most recent research by Gallup, 85% of the global workforce is disengaged. That stat that has not moved in well over a decade and COVID has not seemed to impact it at all.
In the US Gallup saw a historic rise in engagement scores shortly after COVID – followed by an equally historic fall.
Yesterday’s post – https://lnkd.in/gHs_rUW provided a calculator to help you figure out how much you were losing in productivity for every member of your team who is disengaged.
I had a comment on that post asking, “Why are they disengaged?”
We change the oil and rotate the tires on our car to keep it from breaking. We call this preventative maintenance. And research shows that regular, meaningful conversations do the same thing for our teams.
Yet so many managers complain they don’t have enough time to do this.
How much time would they save by avoiding problems by having proactive conversations to correct performance or behaviour and to find out what their team needs to be fully motivated, engaged and productive?
I’ve been traveling for a conference and to spend my birthday/4th of July with my sister and best friend.
I love to spend my birthday in the US because it’s the day before the 4th of July – which makes it a 2-day celebration, in the middle of summer – with fireworks!
Unfortunately, the following weekend I attended the National Speakers Convention in Nashville, where I promptly got Covid and spent the next weeks isolating instead of going on a road trip with my best friend. The times we live in!
Isolation gave me lots of thinking time – and lots of time to strategize on new content, so expect fairly regular updates now through the end of the year.
My head is just buzzing with ideas.
Starting with 2 new masterclasses.
Feel free to grab your spot at one or both – and invite friends and colleagues.
I’m cheating a bit. Last week I promised to post 3 things that I found inspiring every Friday. Today I’m posting 20.
Last night I attended Consult Australia‘s FutureNet awards night for NSW (magnificently convened by Linda Gaunt). It was a COVID-safe event held in the Grand Ballroom of the ICC in Sydney. There were only 30 people in attendance including 19 of the 20 participants, all 4 of the mentors and the facilitators, like me, who...
