When top-performing employees leave a job, they're often quitting their manager rather than their position or their company. In this book, copublished with the Society for Human Resource Management, Nancy Ahlrichs charts unexplored territory as she explains how to become a "manager of choice" in a business environment in which managing human capital is the new imperative.

Employers of choice have set the standard for superior work environments. Now, with the help of worksheets, resource lists, and compelling case studies, Ahlrichs shows how to develop the five critical skills for becoming a manager of choice: talent scouting, relationship building, trust building, skill building, and brand building.

Co-publisher:
Davies-Black Publishing

The red-hot competition for talented employees is no longer news. Employers everywhere know that attracting and keeping exceptional talent is crucial to success in today's knowledge economy. In response to this pressing need, "Competing for Talent" offers a comprehensive, systematic approach to recruiting and retaining the employees everyone wants. Nancy Ahlrichs shows employers how to win the competition for talent by melding management, organization design, human resources, and marketing in a way that turns the company into a magnet for top performers -- an employer of choice.

While much has been written about how to attract, retain, and engage the up-and-coming Gen X and Gen Y crowd, Igniting Gen B and Gen V follows the lessons of success from leading Employers of Choice--Google to Days Inn hotels--that show how to release full engagement, capture knowledge, train skills and create a new culture that leverages the talents and experiences of Boomer and Veteran employees. Incorporating dozens of corporate examples, checklists tools, and the very latest research, this five-step process to engagement shows how to assess the demographics, redefine retirement and the job, provide flexibility, mandate performance and make engagement part of the culture.