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Are your workers struggling with long commutes that cut into the workday, drain productivity, and drive up costs for your business and for them? There is a better way. Los Angeles has the worst traffic in the world, based on…
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Many companies are jumping through hoops to come up with quirky benefits to attract skilled millennials. Give it a rest. According to a study published by the Employee Benefits Research Institute, rather than trendy benefits, here is what millennials prefer:[i]…
When should a company use ambitious, stretch goals (sometimes called “Big, Hairy, Audacious Goals” or “BHAGs”), and when is it better to improve incrementally? New research on goal setting is providing important guidance that can significantly improve a company’s bottom…
Read More New Research on When to Use Stretch Goals to Improve the Bottom Line!
Researchers, such as Gallop, have demonstrated the economic benefits of improving employee engagement, including higher productivity, better quality products and increased profitability.[i] Since the early 2000s, however, the empirical evidence has shown that the overall level of employee engagement in…
Read More Eight Steps from Neuroscience that Will Improve Employee Engagement and Productivity!
If you lead a global company with demanding customers that is fast paced, facing frequent change, and requiring innovation, you need more discomfort and conflict. For that, you need a diverse, global and inclusive workforce. Studies show that type of…
MIT researchers found that there are three characteristics that allow virtual teams to outperform co-located teams. The three characteristics are: having team members who communicate effectively, participate equally, and are good at reading emotions. They also found that having women…
Read More Six Steps that Enable Virtual Teams to Outperform Co-located Teams
Although it has obvious benefits for aligning, motivating and developing an organization’s workforce, performance management is the most hated of human resource processes. If not done well, it interferes with the relationships between managers and employees. Performance management is often…
Read More To Rate or Not to Rate. That is the Performance Management Question.
Over the past decade, the HR industry has seen big changes in performance management. HR professionals no longer abide by the philosophy of “up or out.” This outdated philosophy calls for the removal of the bottom 10% of employees annually…
Read More Live Webinar – The Good, Bad, and Ugly of Fixing Performance Management
Companies operating in the United States face a tight labor market. Having strategies in place to retain employees is vital. If you believe you can provide a counter offer to an employee on the day she or he presents you…
Read More Seven Mistakes Companies Make When Trying to Retain Employees
When I met with my former Italian human resources director, which often was over dinner, he would frequently tell me, “In Italia, dinner is about the relationship. Not the food.” I responded, “You have me fooled. This food and wine…
