Eric Swenson's Letter to Leaders

Eric's "Letter to Leaders" covers current leadership and workforce topics.

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To improve retention and engagement, let them come to you.

Sometimes, the employee really does know best. In a few months, Fortune will publish its annual “100 Best Places to Work For ” list. It's...

Creating a Leadership Pipeline: A Step-by-Step Approach

How are you developing the next generation of your leaders? One of my favorite TV shows – and one of the best I’ve ever watched - is...

25 Things I Learned in 2022

The Year We All Became Hiring Managers Every leader I talk with has become a recruiter this year. Every single speaking invitation I get...

How To Be Transparent About Pay Without Destabilizing Your Company

I usually try to avoid talking about labor or HR issues in Letters to Leaders. But a new California law begs analysis from a leadership...

Quiet Quitting - The Hype and the Truth

Have you heard the latest 'thing' in the workforce? Last month, a TikTok user talked about Quiet Quitting, “where you’re not outright...

You Don't Know How Important You Are

There’s an inevitability about change. It’s always there, until it’s not. We get mentally trapped when things are good; we want it to...

The Unknown is Still The Unknown

I attended my first live conference in three years last month. It happens to be my favorite conference (excluding those some of you pay...

Reflect - And Act - On Your Milestones

May is a big month for me. It’s my birthday month (and May 4, 2022 was a VERY big birthday). May is also our wedding anniversary month....

It's All In The Mind

When I was growing up, my father disdained the concept of being sick. If my sister or I didn’t feel well, he was empathetic but always...

The Big Quit

"What I did this summer, this spring, this winter, last fall, the previous summer..." 4.8 million people voluntarily quit their jobs in...

There are No More Rules

Tomorrow, the final quarter of the year begins. For lots of people, the year’s end can’t some soon enough. For others, it’s more of “what...