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Saw this above graphic in a newsletter this morning. Looks like another hand-wringing “thought leadership” graphic about why people are quitting jobs, which is supposedly going to teach bosses that they need to appreciate and respect the people that work for them. Most managers are utterly incapable of doing this. You tell an average boss to appreciate their people, they snarl back at you and say “I pay them, don’t I?” It’s easier to get a middle-aged man with 12 direct reports to bear crawl a football field than it is to get him to show any respect or appreciation for his underlings. Sad, but true.
Check out this excerpt of a speech that Oprah gave at Harvard a few years back; I got it from here.
Pretty powerful stuff, right? I thought so. Now I want you to think about stuff like “candidate experience.” Most of us have been in job searches, right? We know they can be painful and drag on and people don’t respond to you and you upload a resume then have to manually fill out data and so on and so forth. We talk a lot about candidate experience, sure, but are we really validating and appreciating potential future employees in the way we mostly handle this stuff? I would argue no.
