Especially since, with the retirement of the baby boomer generation, there will be fewer of them with the necessary skills who will be able and ready to work for your organization in the coming years.

So, don’t just manage your talent, as more and more articles are telling you to do, train your talent, empower your talent, reward your talent, and trust your talent.

With employee morale at an all-time low and the number of employees looking to change jobs at an all time high, you need to be different. How about you stop treating them like expendable resources and liabilities and start treating them like irreplaceable assets who can be trusted to do the job they were hired for? Just a thought.