What does the idea of micromanaging mean to you?  A business owner or team leader hovering over your shoulder, making sure you're doing everything exactly as prescribed?  Rember the days of helicopter parents?  Kinda the same idea.

At first glance it may appear as a labor-intensive way to ensure that no mistakes are made ... that results are duplicatable.  But as we will talk about today, micromanaging really does more damage than it does save you from mistakes.

So we're gonna talk about why we do it; we're gonna talk about some of the unintended consequences of micromanaging and then 3 steps that can put us on track to replace micromanaging with something better.

Of all the things my clients seem to have in common, the sometimes desparate search for young new talent to hire appears front and center.  Today we're going to look at some new, possibly non-traditional places to look for our next potential new hires.

We're also going to talk about what these talented young people might be looking for in a desirable work environment.

Thinking about hiring in the near future?  Check out this episode and episode #6 to help you focus your efforts.  Let's get started.

The most recent US Chamber of Commerce data says we have 9.8 million job openings and only 5.9 million unemployeed workers.  So even if everyone who wants a job got one, we'd still have about 4 million open jobs.

The bottom line in that there aren't enough workers to go around.  Our purpose today is NOT to find someone or something to blame or even figure out how or why this happened.  This is the hand we are dealt, so let's focus on how to work with it.