Working through layers can help today’s Covid-era organizations adapt to change and may result in less ghosting, more commitment. Process tools including advisory teams can help by providing engagement that is crucial in our volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world (VUCA), They can also help access insights easily missed in layers or styles of management.

These are a sign of the times we’re in: disrupted supply chains, shortages of everything from toilet paper and pool chlorine to baby formula, and labor shortages. Part of this is job candidates refusing high stress, low pay jobs that they tolerated in the past. Ghosting, a term applied to dating, is now used to define no shows both for employer AND employees. What used to be a term applied to dating now defines disappearing from: 1) a scheduled job interview (both job candidate and employer1), 2) one party vanishing from the interview process, and 3) not showing up the first day on the job and not being reachable, therefore finding yourself “ghosted.”
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