Gallup released its venerable State of the Global Workplace Report for 2021 this month. Surprisingly, workplace engagement rose to 36 percent in 2020, the year of the pandemic, a one percent increase for both the US and Canada. But, stress…
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Tips from a Hollywood comic: Address stress in the workforce
When one of your children grows up to be a Hollywood comic, you get used to your parenting style and idiosyncrasies being the fodder of jokes in comedy clubs across the country and post-pandemic online. My daughter is a Millennial…
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Bad management practices killed employee surveys. 7 ways to get reliable employee feedback
In the wild pandemic world of constant fear and change, management needs feedback from employees to keep them aligned, motivated, safe, and innovative. Are employee surveys still useful — given how they have been carelessly overused and in the face…
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Lunch & Learn: Managing a Flexible and Remote Workforce–SOLD OUT
The ability to work from home or in a flexible environment is the #1 desired non pay benefit among employees. An effectively managed remote workforce leads to increased productivity from highly engaged employees, improved retention and a cost savings for…
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How Companies Become a ‘Best Place to Work’ is Changing…
The Glassdoor Best-Place-to-Work list saw a fall of High-Tech companies, such as Facebook, Google, and Apple, while Amazon didn’t even make the list! The ranking of these High-Tech firms fell for different reasons but data privacy scandals and and falling…
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Don’t manage to an employee engagement score. Instead, drive business value.
The $74 billion employment engagement industry has a serious problem. After nearly 18 years, it is not driving sufficient business value to justify its costs. Instead, values, business purpose, organizational learning, and culture are the true factors that drive business…
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It is time to face the truth about employee engagement.
Employee engagement is an outdated idea that, by itself, does not significantly improve business performance. The truth is, employee engagement can improve the relationship between managers and employees, but will take your organization only so far. Companies are realizing that…
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Seven Steps to Improve Employee Retention
Concern over employee retention has increased sharply in the US — where unemployment is now below 4% — but, also, around the world. A 2017 study by Towers Watson uncovered that more than 50% of all organizations globally struggle to…
Can we face the truth about employee engagement?
That was the best training I ever had for team leadership, the director told me, after a half-day employee engagement training. The objective of the program was to improve the relationship building skills of leaders with each of their team…
Ten Steps for Awesome Onboarding and Higher Productivity!
Do you want to have faster time-to-full productivity for your new hires? Improved retention? Higher employee engagement? Have your new hires be your best new hire referral source? Who doesn’t? So, what is your company doing to have an awesome…
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