Hanging On To the Wise
by Lois MelbourneBusiness Week is reporting on what our customers are telling us.
Employers must pay attention to the experience in their workforce. Not only do you have to be careful about age discrimination, you also need to keep your wiser talent. Companies around the planet are tapping more into their experienced workers to help them realize excellence. The best teams appear to be a strong balance between the workers who are younger, ready to embrace and create new ways of producing productivity, and the experienced workers who have the wealth of intellectual capital.
Organizations are digging into productivity data, performance data, 360 feedback data, and looking for the people who just are not cutting it.
Who is getting cut:
- the naysayer who spends more time telling you what can’t be done, than finding options for what can be done.
- the political player who spends more time producing slideware than results.
- the ‘almost good enough’ who don’t learn new things and, so, make the same mistakes repeatedly.
- the secret slackers who have been coasting, in other words the ‘C’ player at the table.
HR departments are looking at positions that appear redundant and then analyzing the people within those positions. Decisions are not always left up to the manager on who gets cut, as the manager may be on the hit list as well; but there are a lot of decentralized discussions and data collection feeding into the decision making process. The more visibility and awareness you have through data, the better your workforce planning will be.
Cheers,
Lois
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