A company with so much potential, but can’t get out of its own way - Director Level Position Columbus McKinnon Employee Review

2.0
Mar 18, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Some really great people really trying their best

Cons

A real talent deficit. While I see they have been able to attract some talent over the past few years, CM is unable to retain them and executive level doesn’t help support or drive the transformation they claim they want.

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Columbus McKinnon Response
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Thank you for taking the time to provide your feedback. We strive to ensure effective communications and to appropriately balance our investments in near and long term priorities. We would welcome the opportunity to engage in a discussion with you to better understand your points of view regarding these important topics. Please feel free to reach out to me directly via Melissa.hill@cmworks.com or to anyone else within the CMCO HR team. You are also more than welcome to coordinate a direct discussion with our CEO.

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