Tag Archives: employee
A Whole New Meaning to Office Repairs
An employee’s face looks up as his iPad slowly slips from his fingers; crashing on the floor below. Scattered, plastic remnants are all that remain. Can it be fixed? A manager and an employee look across the table at each other, stunned into silence by the bitter and harsh words exchanged during a review. Can [...]
Break Free from Recognition Deprivation
Many workplaces have come to tolerate the lack of respect and recognition given for their efforts to attain collective goals. Either recognition is absent, mismanaged, distributed substandard, or even guarded by those who deeply believe that rewards are only given in the form of paychecks. When employees and/or managers continually give to the employee-employer relationship [...]
Management Action│Learning How to Boost Rewards
Top leaders are tuning into their workforce vital signs and are taking the pulse in an attempt to ascertain their employees’ values as companies try to design rewards that infuse meaning and integrate the business strategy. The old laundry list reward system which gave little regard to investment and the alignment of the diverse needs [...]
Dare to Begin
One of the most exhilarating experiences when beginning something new is the open space it creates in our minds and within the depths of our beings. The level of curiosity that naturally balances with the output of creative ideas instills an energy that permeates through us and around our environments, raising up others and increasing [...]
Inspiration Starts at the Top
2 Tips Toward Inspiring Top Talent & Infusing the Team Inspiring today’s talent for future achievement remains a top priority for many organizations around the globe. What separates the good from the great toward making appreciation more meaningful? Quint Studor, named one of the “Top 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare” by Modern Healthcare magazine for his [...]
Measure Impact, Not Goals
How is performance management enabling other processes or disciplines in your workplace? Critically important in today’s economic environment is the ability to align day-to-day performance to achieving optimal business results. Two of the most enabling structures that ensure management’s communication of organizational objectives is through goal setting and the performance management process. It provides a [...]
Guarding Your Top Talent Against Temptation
The great recession has officially ended according to experts however; the negative impact on top talent continues to ripple throughout organizations. While unemployment remains high, the U.S. and other countries prior to the recession were challenged in addressing the increasingly complex workforce trends including: demographic shifts, impending retirements, skill shortages, government regulations and sustainability as [...]
Employers Are Not the Only Ones Rethinking Risk
Keeping high-performers and top talent engaged during an uncertain economy is hard work. Average wage increases, decreased benefits and fewer promotional opportunities along with more responsibilities challenge the best managers. Emerging from the financial crisis has left a deep impact on employees’ savings and like those companies who faced a near death experience during the [...]
Everything We Want Is Just Outside Our Comfort Zone – Keep Going Beyond
Is the first thought of your morning and the last worry of the evening dominating your day? Is it looming over your shoulder and robbing your leadership from experiencing greater depth, meaning and purpose in your work? With big-hairy challenges facing today’s workplace in greater proportions, is there any wonder why many people leaders are [...]
