Mike Gottschalk Mike Gottschalk

Fighting Burnout With Strengths

Managers, HR leaders, and business leaders can help employees navigate burnout by knowing these strengths and finding ways to help them remain engaged even during challenging seasons.

Read More
Mike Gottschalk Mike Gottschalk

Building your employee retention machine

"Even if a company is succeeding across culture, engagement, and financial performance, there are always opportunities for improvement when it comes to boosting retention. " Find out more in this article by HR Brew.

Read More
GOOD READS OLD Mike Gottschalk GOOD READS OLD Mike Gottschalk

Evidence-Based Management: The Case Of HR

A common overlooked practice is helping your team connect with the values, purpose, and mission of your company. Fostering this intiative with your employees helps you retain top talent and learn critical feedback for future improvements. Dive more into this topic in this article by Forbes.

Read More
Mike Gottschalk Mike Gottschalk

How to encourage engagement between employees and HR

Why is it perceived by some employees, HR doesn't care about people? It is an oxymoron for the people function not to care about people. As they say, perception is reality and if an HR function is focused on compliance and doesn’t act on employee feedback, the perception could be reality.

Read More
Mike Gottschalk Mike Gottschalk

The CHRO of the future needs financial and technical acumen

There's an increasing demand for CHROs to connect their strategies to business outcomes. They'll not only have to rely on these core skills to meet this demand, but surround themselves with specialists (data, financial, and systems analysts) to execute the vision. Ultimately showing the impact to the bottom line.

Read More
Mike Gottschalk Mike Gottschalk

Why the Millions We Spend on Employee Engagement Buy Us So Little

When you introduce perk after perk where engagement shoots up for a brief time but then lowers down shortly after, there may be a deeper, foundational issue in your company to evaluate. This Harvard Business Review article dives into what it means to sustain long-term employee engagement.

Read More