BoomerCompass Blog

Scrum For Agile Talent Management

Kit Jeffrey — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:01:13 +0000

Sports metaphors and analogies are powerful things that enable us to visualize approaches to tackling business problems and get winning results. Case in point is your organization’s human capital bench strength and using Scrum for agile talent management. But first, ask yourself the question: ”Is your team optimized for competitiveness and long-term talent sustainability or have [...]

Stakeholders: Key to Creating a Winning Human Capital Strategy

Kit Jeffrey — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:03:18 +0000

Creating a winning strategy for your organization’s human capital is essential to business survival and competitiveness. Yet many companies, in developing their human capital plans, neglect to include an assessment of the stakeholders. This can be the proverbial Achilles heel that causes a plan to fail. I base my assertion on leading edge [...]

Business Modeling: Your Ally In The Talent War – Part 2

Kit Jeffrey — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 16:13:53 +0000

You have an ally in in your battle to win the talent war. It’s business modeling and it quite literally provides you with a strategic tool for making transformative and positive changes in the way you attract and retain high performing candidates and employees. In part 1, I made the case for using business modeling, establishing that [...]

Business Modeling: Your Ally In The Talent War – Part 1

Kit Jeffrey — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:40:30 +0000

You have an ally in in your battle to win the talent war. It’s business modeling and it quite literally provides you with a strategic tool for making transformative and positive changes in the way you attract and retain high performing candidates and employees. Before I get into the concept and application of business [...]

Boomer Career Sustainability: Your Skills Shelf-Life

Kit Jeffrey — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 17:10:56 +0000

A key factor in career sustainability is the freshness of your skills. Recruiters and hiring managers want candidates with up-to-date skills sets and high levels of comfort with collaboration and technology tools including social media. Think of this just as you do when purchasing items from the grocery store where many of these have a [...]

Boomer Careers: Six Steps for Leveraging Twitter

Kit Jeffrey — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 21:09:36 +0000

Social media is playing an increasingly important part in business. Twitter is among the fastest growing of the social media tools and is regarded as “must have, must do” for serious professionals. So what’s the big deal and why are there social media skeptics among boomers, especially about Twitter? Are you among them? Part of [...]

Missing Link – Eldercare and Boomer Career Sustainability

Kit Jeffrey — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 23:12:13 +0000

Career sustainability is all about optimization, managing risks and balancing your obligations. On the optimization side, you are probably already doing a lot, embracing social media through networks, flexing with rapid economic and organizational changes and the like. On the risk side, you are paying more attention to managing your financial resources, savings and retirement. [...]

5 Ways to Protect Your Reputation in Social Media

Kit Jeffrey — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 18:01:33 +0000

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.” Warren Buffet, CEO, Berkshire Hathaway Warren Buffet couldn’t be more right! Five minutes of indiscreet or reckless behavior in the form of inappropriate comments or other contributions to Facebook, LinkedIn or other social networking venues can [...]

Mature Workers’ Social Media Engagement

Kit Jeffrey — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 15:08:52 +0000

Unfortunate and inaccurate perceptions persist about levels of activity and engagement of mature workers (age 44+) in social media. Some seem to view mature workers as laggards and virtual Luddites. The opposite is true. The fact is that mature workers including Boomers are among the most engaged participants in the social media experience. A sampling of [...]

Create a CPS for Your Sustainable Career

Kit Jeffrey — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 23:55:29 +0000

A GPS, as you know, is a navigation and positioning tool that helps pilot your way to a travel destination. A useful analogue for managing your career is a CPS or Career Positioning System. This is a tool that can help you navigate your way to better job opportunities. A CPS consists of several components and I [...]

Here’s to Better Boomer Job Opportunities in 2011!

Kit Jeffrey — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 16:58:10 +0000

Now that the President has signed the tax rate extension package, many prominent economists suggest that economic forces will be unleashed leading to job growth in 2011. The reduction in uncertainty in the market, at least for the two-year duration of the extension has averted a job-killing, double-dip recession just in the nick of time. With uncertainty [...]

Layoffs: 3 Tips for Managing the Social Media Buzz

Kit Jeffrey — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 16:39:46 +0000

One of the consequences of a layoff or downsizing is negative buzz in social media and the potential for fallout in the form of damage to employers’ brands. Depending on the intensity of feeling surrounding a particular downsizing, negative posts and comments and even dedicated “This Company Sucks” blogs and websites can be spawned and spread [...]