Acquisition & retention

Many of you reading this (our CEOs and board network), will now be experiencing a retention and attraction challenge like never before and this will continue to either become more challenging or see the demise of many, rather than legacy technology. Retention I would say is the first port of call for high performing leaders, which we are advising on, having a good view of what some of the best in class teams are doing to keep this a top priority.

On the other side, the "fight" for tier 1 talent will continue and the need for executive leadership – whatever the title will have a messy middle.

Gone are the days when the market was a buyers one. Make sure that your processes are even more water tight than before, not dragged out. Work at speed to reference and move your preferred candidates through the process. Remuneration plays a big part and in this regard it is very much a candidate driven market. Benchmarks are fine to refer to but the outliers we are placing sit high above this.