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Psychological safety is being significantly misunderstood, according to the May-June, 2025 edition of the Harvard Business Review. Academics Amy C. Edmondson and Michaela J Kerrissey, have identified six misconceptions about psychological safety that that they say are leading organizations astray.…
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Gallup reports that its global employee engagement measures have fallen during the last two years, after rising for all of the previous 12 years, except in 2020, during COVID-19. In 2024, it fell by two percentage points. Gallup estimates that…
Read More For greater success, pay attention to your culture scores
Gallup released its State of the Global Workforce 2024 report last week and found that employees are at their highest level of engagement, at 23 percent. Unfortunately, 62 percent of the workforce is unengaged, just doing what they need to…
Read More Gallup discovered that managers who inspire their workers are increasingly urgent.
In a recent landmark Harvard Business Review article, Peter Cappelli and Ranya Nehmeh advocate for HR returning to its roots as the advocates for employees and their career development. The current business focus on relentless cost-cutting and restructuring during a…
Organizations that want to improve their productivity, innovation, and financial performance won't address all the issues by focusing on employee engagement. Instead, they’ll get much better results if they focus on culture. Even Gallup, which has been tracking employee engagement…
Read More Culture drives higher performance than employee engagement
Gallup’s 2023 State of the Global Workforce reveals a wealth of information about the workplace and the workforce. For example, did you know that: Employee engagement and job opportunities in the US and Canada stand at 31 percent, down from…
Read More Gallup: The office alone has no magic to create a great organizational culture
According to The Conference Board, US workers have never been more content, despite the pandemic, quiet quitting, quiet firing, and the forwards and backwards over hybrid working. Overall job satisfaction among US workers increased in 2022 to its highest point…
Read More Job satisfaction at all-time high thanks to hybrid working and job switching.
Many leaders believe that “culture” is soft and difficult to measure. It isn’t. In fact, it’s the ultimate performance driver. And you can manage what you measure. InnovationOne’s research shows that companies ranking in the top quartile as scored by…
Read More Improve your financial performance by improving your culture
Last week’s The Wall Street Journal article on Quiet Quitting and Quiet Firing includes observations from me on this popular topic. The very next day, Friday, I was interviewed by Fox26 Houston to provide advice to employees who find themselves being a…
Read More It’s foolish to punish quiet quitters in this small-growth economy.
Gallup reported this month that US employee engagement has dropped in each of the last two years, from 36 percent in 2020 to 32 percent in 2022. However, employee engagement is higher for organizations that focus on culture. Gallup’s reporting…
Read More Engagement is higher for organizations that focus on culture
