Thinking Ahead
Imagine that one of your employees created a solution to an important problem plaguing your business. How would your reward or thank that person?
What would you do if the employee told you that they didn’t feel that your reward was adequate?
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Talent: the new coal
When I was applying for my first professional job as a teacher in the 1990s, I was one of several hundred applying for each of the few open positions. I used to joke that I would get the occasional interview because they wanted to see if I had two heads, and then they would hire someone from the college that turned out hundreds of teachers each year, because they knew exactly how that person would plug into their faculty. Being from an unusual but respected university wasn’t an asset in this situation. It was a liability. Too much risk that I wouldn’t fit smoothly into the system.
I don’t know if I would have had a different experience if I were coming out today, but it’s pretty clear that I would not have failed to land a full time teaching job for two years, like I did then. There simply aren’t enough new teachers coming out of the colleges to fill all of the needed positions.
Of course, It’s not surprising that there aren’t enough teachers to fill the open positions.
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