Your business’s human capital – or the invaluable asset created by each employer’s skills, experience, loyalty, productivity, education, and personality – plays a decisive role in how successful your organization will be. Designing a winning staffing plan and choosing the best staffing strategy for your company’s unique needs can help you attract world-class talents, establish the foundations of a successful business, and sail through the Great Resignation.

What is staffing, and what are the roles of staffing? We’ll aim to answer both of these questions, along with some of the other key concerns you may have surrounding this topic. Staffing is something that all human resource managers need to be aware of, so let’s dive in and see what it’s all about.

It’s critical to bring new reps into the fold quickly and set them up for success. Here’s a look at how we do it at Slack.

Creative service industries such as architecture benefit greatly from project management, particularly in cases when architectural projects are being carried out at a large scale within a firm. As well as keeping track of construction and design projects, architectural firms need to have a clear overview of company-wide processes, performance, and employee workflows – all of which can be met through effective project management.

Now more than ever businesses run on software. That means that your team — whether you’re a “software company” or not — likely includes software developers. Brand and product experiences are increasingly dependent on software, and delivering delightful, compelling experiences depends on having a talented, engaged technical team.

After working with and interviewing hundreds of agency owners on my podcast Agency Life, one thing seems to ring true for all—the journey to starting an agency is often wide and varied. And while that path is different for everyone, their backstories are unanimously fascinating. Most agency owners I’ve spoken to had never run a business before starting their agency, but they had a deep passion for helping other businesses grow.

Whatever your organization does, there’s always opportunity for improvement, and sometimes the best way to find them is by checking in on the end users themselves. It’s a tricky thing to accomplish, to be sure, since there are a lot of intangible factors that play into how an employee might be feeling about their experience at any given moment.

Prioritizing a few customers over everyone else can be a major drag on your flywheel.

To build relationships at work that, well, work, communication is crucial, especially now that hybrid work is on the rise. With the majority of global knowledge workers spending a mix of time in the office and remote, according to the Future Forum’s pulse study, the challenges of workplace communication are also growing. Information overload, digital distraction, knowledge silos, and overlapping communication tools can hinder collaboration.

According to Joblist’s Q3 2021 Job Market Report survey 73% of currently-employed workers say that they are actively thinking about quitting their jobs and finding a new job. So what does that mean exactly? It means that as the “Great Resignation” continues, companies need to focus on employee retention strategies.