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            After decades of chronic underinvestment in talent infrastructure and strategy, higher education is now experiencing record-setting staff turnover along with widespread employee disengagement. Institutions must shift to a proactive talent management model and make targeted investments to bolster both long-term efficiency and competitiveness as an employer.
          
        
      
          
              
          
                
              
            
    
  
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  Create a Higher Ed Workplace Culture Where Faculty and Staff Want to Stay
          To tackle the emerging employee attrition crisis, higher ed cabinet leaders must include institutional climate in their retention…
        
      
              
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  An Introduction to Staff Compensation Strategy in Higher Education
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          Use the Customized Talent Competitor Map to define and/or refine your institution’s distinct competitive set(s) for staff talent.
        
      
              
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  How to target higher ed salary investments to bolster recruitment and retention
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  Higher ed can't beat the market on staff compensation. Here's how to be market-credible instead.
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  Faculty Burnout is Real and Cannot be Wished Away
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  The difficult balancing act of being a department chair
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  5 no-regrets analyses to recruit and retain top talent
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