16 results for author: Slayton Search Partners
How the C-Suite is Championing the Employee Experience
Customer experience has long been center stage, with companies everywhere recognizing the power consumers hold to boost (or tank) their bottom line.
However, in recent years, the employee experience has been edging its way into the spotlight—and it’s ...
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CEO Redefined: How Leaders Can Meet Today’s Challenges
The demands placed on corporate leadership seem to have skyrocketed. Being the boss has never been easy, but in the wake of the pandemic, a CEO's path to success has only become more fraught with challenge and complexity. Add to that the rising tides of ...
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The End of Top-Down Management: Adjusting to a More Empowered Workforce
With a tightening labor market and evolving employee expectations, the working world has experienced a dramatic change in the last couple of years. This change is pushing the boundaries of the traditional top-down management model, shifting more power and ...
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Retirements vs Quits: Getting to the Bottom of the Great Resignation
By now, the term “Great Resignation” has reached cliché status, providing us with a caricatured vision of a great exodus of workers, boxed possessions in hand as they leave the building once and for all. But the sore truth is that millions of employees ...
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The Current State of the Gender Wage Gap
We recently revisited the data about women in the workforce and concluded that the pandemic was not kind to professional women. This is particularly true even as we shift our attention to compensation. The gender wage gap is the widest it’s been in years. ...
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What Does 2022 Hold for Women in the Workplace?
Towards the end of 2020, we explored the data telling us that four times as many women than men had dropped out of the workforce. That meant the female labor force participation rate had returned to numbers not seen since 1985. This huge reversal of gender ...
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How Leaders Can Move Forward with Greater Insight Post-Pandemic
We've talked about this moment since the very beginning—the "other side" of the pandemic—as if it would be a line in the sand, a definitive day and time that we could declare the end of COVID-19. An idealistic notion perhaps, but we’re entering lighter ...
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5 Trends Driving the Future of Private Equity
The world of private equity (PE) moves fast, and it’s vulnerable to many of the same global issues as other industries. From the pandemic to the Great Resignation, leadership in the PE space needs to continually arm itself in the war for talent. With that ...
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The War for Talent: Could the End Be in Sight?
You've heard the buzzwords by now. All it takes is one scroll through your LinkedIn feed to become quickly acquainted with terms like "The Great Resignation" and "candidate-driven markets." A small cadre of job seekers among the top percentile of talent are ...
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The Private Equity Sector Sees the Return of CEO Turnover
After months of holding defensive positions amid a pandemic, many CEOs are taking the 2021 hiring boom as an opportunity to look for greener pastures. This is no less true in the private equity sector, where CEO turnover has long been an issue.
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How Insurance Companies Are Adapting to the Remote Work Model
The pandemic-induced transition to a remote work model is, by now, old news. But for industries like the insurance sector, which have historically been slower to adapt to paradigm shifts, adapting to this remote model is ongoing.
Many insurance companies ...
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From Defense to Offense: HR Leaders Face a Post-Pandemic Hiring Boom
There's no other way to say it: HR leaders have been forced to "play defense" for the past 18 months in challenging workplace conditions. The COVID-19 pandemic caused many companies to slow hiring and delay internal promotions, and for the most part, employ...
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