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BLS Employment Situation Report – May 2024

Posted on June 19, 2024June 19, 2024 by Markay Reeves

Most labor market watchers from Wall Street to Main Street and in Washington DC were expecting to see a modest uptick in job growth in today’s data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics monthly payroll report (BLS). The 272,000...Read More

Building Leadership Bench Strength

Posted on June 12, 2024June 11, 2024 by Markay Reeves

Now more than ever it is important for an organization to develop current leaders, but also to develop future leaders through the acceleration of leadership development programs. What could be more important to the long-term success of an organization than...Read More

Finding Happiness at Work

Posted on June 4, 2024June 4, 2024 by Markay Reeves

Whether it’s long hours, grueling tasks or just the repetitive nature of a day-to-day routine, work can sometimes be something we have to do rather than something we want to do. But given that the average person will spend 90,000...Read More

Global Talent Update – May 2024

Posted on May 28, 2024May 28, 2024 by Markay Reeves

This month’s Global Talent Update reports on Germany’s plans to attract qualified workers from abroad; opposition to increasing the minimum daily wage in Thailand; a controversial annual levy in Nigeria; and Brazil’s participation in a troika to limit global warming. EUROPE Germany’s...Read More

Setting the Tone for a Positive Culture

Posted on May 22, 2024May 22, 2024 by Markay Reeves

A positive culture matters for the long-term health of any organization, and leaders play a critical role in setting the right tone to create a culture of success. Over time organizations have a tendency to become ingrained with the characteristics...Read More

BLS Employment Situation Report – April 2024

Posted on May 14, 2024May 14, 2024 by Markay Reeves

Once again, the Bureau of Labor Statistics monthly payroll report (BLS) takes center stage as investors, business executives, politicians and economists look for clues on the direction of the all-important jobs market. Today’s data had a little something for each...Read More

Moving Women up the Leadership Ladder

Posted on May 7, 2024May 7, 2024 by Markay Reeves

Several prominent business trends have the potential to boost women’s progress in the quest for equal opportunity in the workplace. Awareness of these trends can help women think through how they might leverage them to gain a solid footing in...Read More

Global Talent Update – April 2024

Posted on April 24, 2024April 24, 2024 by Markay Reeves

This month’s Global Talent Update reports on plans to revamp relations between Switzerland and the European Union; a proposal to improve workplace diversity in Malaysia; Nigeria’s exportation of locally produced commodities to South Africa, Rwanda, Cameroon and Kenya; and the overturn of...Read More

Stop Letting Meetings Waste People’s Time

Posted on April 17, 2024April 16, 2024 by Markay Reeves

Since the pandemic upended traditional office culture, new ways of doing things have allowed inefficiencies to creep in – inefficiencies that include meetings scheduled for the sake of unstructured discussion or even basic human interaction rather than for productivity. When meetings...Read More

BLS Employment Situation Report – March 2024

Posted on April 9, 2024April 9, 2024 by Markay Reeves

Analysts were anticipating a slight cooling in overall labor market conditions with non-farm payroll hiring expected near the 2000,000-mark in this month’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) payroll report. Once again, today’s BLS data, indicating a jobs gain of 303,000,...Read More