So, you’ve been working from home now for 8 weeks, give or take. You are at the kitchen or dining room table, your cat is walking across the computer keyboard, the dog is barking, your kids are pestering you for help with online studies (or worse….trying to involve you in the latest Tik Tok challenge)… [Read More]
Leading with Empathy: the Key to Calm in a Crisis
“This too shall pass.” But until it does, how do you cope in the meantime? How do you lead others? Ensure productivity? Keep your team together? Even if you’ve managed and led through crisis in the past, this one is different, involving mandatory social distancing, economic repercussions, and a whole new way of living and… [Read More]
Ten Tips for Working from Home
COVID-19 safety measures are sending many employees to work at home for the next few weeks or possibly longer. If you are not accustomed to working from home, how do you maintain productivity and focus? As a manager how do you ensure effectiveness, efficiency and team connectedness? At BRYANT GROUP, as with many executive search… [Read More]
Customer Service Lives
Last week, my faith in the art of customer service was renewed. In my role as CEO of an executive search firm, I was at the Vine and Grill restaurant at the Westin right outside of the Denver airport last week. I had flown in that morning to conduct three back-to-back interviews for a hospital… [Read More]
Recruiting and Retaining Talent
From our President & CEO . . . I had the opportunity to serve as the guest speaker for Jim Eskin’s Non-Profit Empowerment Workshop a few weeks ago, held at Microsoft in San Antonio. Below is the second part of our interview about retaining fundraising talent. Jim: For candidates who don’t have fundraising experience, what would make their backgrounds attractive to… [Read More]
Talent Retention
From our President & CEO . . . I have the opportunity this week to serve as the guest speaker for Jim Eskin’s Non-Profit Empowerment Workshop, held at Microsoft in San Antonio. Below is an excerpt from our interview about retaining fundraising talent. Jim: What explains the high turnover rate in the fundraising profession? Sally: Fundraising staffs… [Read More]