Managers who coach employees individually build strong working relationships and help the employees understand their strengths and meet goals, writes Eric Karpinski, author of "Put Happiness to Work: 7 Strategies to Elevate Engagement for Optimal Performance." "A true one-on-one environment allows you as a manager to engage each team member with the strategies that best fit each one," Karpinski writes.

Create connections with your team by being curious, consistent and respectful while spelling out your expectations and vision, writes John Stoker. "Taking a moment to consider your behavior will help improve your relationships, grow respect and increase your awareness so you can make any needed changes and improve the quality of your results," Stoker writes.

Adjustments to hiring and other processes can help companies build environments that support neurodiversity, and this will allow organizations to reach job candidates with valuable skills, says Hiren Shukla, founder of EY Global's Neuro-Diverse Centers of Excellence. Rethinking the hiring process and embracing a more flexible view of the workplace can address the issue and also boost overall retention.

Across much of the US, businesses are pressing governments to limit or end pandemic unemployment benefits, citing their struggle to hire employees as the economy reopens. But some experts say this "labor shortage" is a restructuring of the job market and what employees are willing to do, while essential workers -- who have continued to man their posts throughout the pandemic -- highlight a lack of public concern for their safety. Leaders looking to rebuild their workforce should rethink hiring strategies and disengage from hiring myths that preclude them from engaging qualified staff.

People receiving unemployment benefits who are offered an appropriate job must accept the job or lose the benefits, President Joe Biden said after an employment report showed that employers added only 266,000 jobs last month -- about a quarter of what economists had predicted. Biden, who rejected Republican demands to end the federal government's $300-per-week extended unemployment benefit, also said the government will make it easier for employers to hire more people by providing aid for child care providers, adding reemployment services, and handing out $350 billion to state and local governments.

Chipotle Mexican Grill said it will raise its average hourly pay from $13 to $15 by the end of next month as part of its quest to recruit 20,000 new employees in a tight labor market. The chain plans to open 200 new units this year and will also begin paying referral bonuses of $200 for hourly employees and $750 for management-level employees.

Thoughts, feelings and emotions that are at odds with your integrity can cause you to lash out at others or forsake a vision for your business, writes Dan Oestreich, who recommends mutinying against what debilitates us. "This is the point where I begin to overthrow the old energies to which I've habitually given authority, overthrow them with radical self-honesty and conscious determination," he writes.

An exclusive Montana ski resort is seeking a permit to use sewage to make snow. The process has already been used in various parts of the US, Europe and Australia to help resorts open earlier, especially in snow-short winters.