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Career Development Discussions with Employees

A Smart Strategy Against the Great Resignation By Kimberly Kafafian   Anyone that’s recently dined out and/or stood on line at a retail store and/or tried to get a customer service representative on the phone and/or needed to get their car serviced can attest to our rapidly thinning workforce. A quick Google search will tell you […]

Career Development and Employee Engagement

Companies Can’t Afford to Ignore the Connection   To stop today’s revolving door of employee turnover, companies should focus their efforts on cultivating an engaged workforce. The evidence is clear that engaged employees stay in organizations longer. And with the cost of replacing one employee being between one-half to twice that employee’s salary, retaining your […]

How to Support Employee Career Development

Employers who invest in developing their current team members have better retention rates. This is true across different industries and companies of varying sizes. However, leadership does not always recognize this trend. At one company, if an employee left for a better opportunity, it was because they were a millennial who did not value loyalty. […]

Practicing Empathy in the Workplace

By Kimberly Kafafian   On March 12, 2020, I had what would become my last in-person client meeting for the next 457 days. My children were home, right outside my office door, for 542 days. Who could have predicted that 18 months ago, life as we knew it would change so radically. They call this […]

The Importance of Work in Our Daily Life

By Kimberly Kafafian   On this 20th anniversary of 9/11, I am reminded of the strong interconnection between work and life. So many of the individuals who perished in the attacks on that day in September lost their lives simply because they had gone to work that morning, just like any other day. None of […]