What Jerry Seinfeld Taught Us About Job Retention
Can you imagine going to pick up your car rental, and they don’t have one for you? Even though you reserved it two weeks ago. When Jerry...
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Andrea J. Applegate
- Aug 14
- 3 min
Do you still "hold their feet to the fire"?
Years ago, I worked for a guy who, when discussing strategy and performance, talked about "having to hold their feet to the fire." It...
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Andrea J. Applegate
- Jul 14
- 1 min
How will Central Ohio's looming labor shortage impact business?
Did you see the recent episode of Columbus on the Record discussing the current and future labor shortage? The Workforce Development...
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Andrea J. Applegate
- Jul 7
- 1 min
What Women Want from the Workplace
More than 25,000 human resource professionals gathered in Las Vegas for SHRM 23. We enjoyed learning the history of HR with an...
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Andrea J. Applegate
- Jun 27
- 3 min
Do Women Really Deserve To Be Paid Less Than Men?
Have you ever stopped to consider why the jobs that are typically occupied by women--jobs like taking care of children, taking care of...
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Andrea J. Applegate
- Jun 20
- 1 min
Recent legislation may impact you as an employer
Recent legislation may impact you as an employer. Are you familiar with PWFA? How about PUMP? The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) is...
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Andrea J. Applegate
- May 12
- 2 min
I am not Lora. But I am committed just the same.
On a recent Saturday morning, my colleague, Lora, called me. It was early. I knew it was important. She told me she was stressed. So much...
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Andrea J. Applegate
- Apr 18
- 2 min
The opposite of love is not hate. It's indifference.
The opposite of love is not hate. The opposite of love is indifference. When I first heard that, it boggled my mind. How can that be, I...
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Andrea J. Applegate
- Mar 9
- 1 min
What is this "Inclusion" you speak of?
"DEI interventions must be designed with the most vulnerable community in mind." That is what inclusion means. We must open up the door...
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Andrea J. Applegate
- Feb 15
- 2 min
Nobody is crying a river for an investment banker's stay-at-home wife
"Nobody is crying a river for an investment banker's stay-at-home wife. But I often think, if it’s this hard for us, how the hell are...
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Andrea J. Applegate
- Oct 1, 2022
- 2 min
Healthy Conflict Leads to Highly Productive Teams
Healthy conflict, or what I refer to as creative friction, is characterized by 1) clear, candid dialogue and 2) robust, open debate. Lora...
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Andrea J. Applegate
- Aug 26, 2022
- 1 min
Happy National Dog Day
Apparently, it's National Dog Day. Fortunately, we love dogs!
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Andrea J. Applegate
- Aug 11, 2022
- 2 min
Kartier's Story | From Thriving to Struggling ... to Thriving Again
On behalf of the Workforce Development Board of Central Ohio, we completed a study to find out what happened to women whose job...
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Andrea J. Applegate
- Apr 28, 2022
- 1 min
How to Keep Workers From Joining the Great Resignation
Applegate Talent Strategies we quoted in a recent Business First article titled, "How to Keep Workers From Joining the Great...
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Andrea J. Applegate
- Apr 14, 2022
- 4 min
Ohio, Columbus labor markets remain tight as employers struggle to find workers
This article originally appeared in the Columbus Dispatch on April 7, 2022 and posted at Dispatch.com Two years after the pandemic...
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Andrea J. Applegate
- Jan 27, 2022
- 1 min
Employee engagement results are out -- and it's not good
In case you missed it, the results from the latest Gallup survey on engagement is out. The bad news: employee engagement is down. And the...
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Andrea J. Applegate
- Dec 2, 2021
- 3 min
The Pay Gap for Women Starts Early
The Pay Gap for Women Starts Early ... and With a Responsibility Gap Female managers are often told they just need to demand more pay;...
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Andrea J. Applegate
- Nov 18, 2021
- 2 min
It's 2021 and women STILL must overcome this
Have you ever stopped to consider why the jobs that are typically occupied by women--jobs like taking care of children, taking care of...
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Andrea J. Applegate
- Nov 4, 2021
- 2 min
What Does It Mean For Employees' Values to Align with Their Employers?
When thinking about work, we often talk about VALUES. What are the company's VALUES? What words are painted on the walls or featured on...
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Andrea J. Applegate
- Oct 27, 2021
- 2 min
If retention is a Recruitment Strategy, what are you doing to retain your employees?
Did you see the recent "Saturday Essay" in the Wall Street Journal titled, The Real Meaning 0f Freedom at Work? Ooo, we've had some...
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Andrea J. Applegate
- Oct 15, 2021
- 2 min
Are you welcoming people in or pushing them out the door?
The so-called War for Talent rages on. And the Great Resignation continues. What are employers to do? We advise our clients to build --...
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Andrea J. Applegate
- Sep 20, 2021
- 4 min
Are you making bad hiring decisions?
If you hire people because you like them, you make bad hiring decisions. What if I told you the #1 mistake hiring managers make in an...
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Andrea J. Applegate
- Aug 9, 2021
- 4 min
Is It Right to Be Fired for Being Unvaccinated
It's all over the news these days. Employers, some of them anyway, are moving toward requiring their employees to get vaccinated. As the...
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Lora Fish, SHRM-SCP
- Jul 22, 2021
- 3 min
Making Workplaces that Work
Have you been on the interstate recently? I hadn’t. Traveling the Pennsylvania Turnpike to a client site in Eastern Pennsylvania last...
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