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The Secret Recipe for Connecting with Your Employees
Every business is, to some degree, a social business. Employees connect in various ways with each other, with leaders, and with customers and other important stakeholders. When it comes to connecting with employees, your ability to develop a strong bo...
Create Organizational Alignment AND Keep Your Sanity
Think of today’s most successful organizations. While they likely have multiple commonalities, one thing stands out: All of today’s most successful organizations are exceptionally well-aligned. What does it mean to be aligned as an organization? To cr...
Org Chart Templates: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Every employee, from workers on the front lines all the way to the C-suite, wants to believe their efforts are important and appreciated. Yet, a recent survey by AttaCoin found that only 53 percent of employees feel appreciated. In a glass-half-full k...
5 Resources That Will Take Your Employee Engagement to the Next Level
Employee turnover is costly—human resources departments and the companies they serve know this. Yet, seeing the estimated number really makes the problem hit home. According to the Work Institute, turnover costs American companies $325 billion annuall...
5 Reasons You Are Failing at Employee Engagement
“What we all want from work is to be valued members of a winning team on an inspiring mission.” Graham Weston, a co-founder of Rackspace, said those words during a 2010 TEDx talk. This popular quote speaks volumes about how employee engagement can dri...
Who Are These People? Overcoming the Distance in Remote Employee Management
A 2017 Gallup report discovered that 43 percent of American employees work remotely at least occasionally, of which about 3 in 10 do so more than 80 percent of the time. These numbers increased from 2012, and the trend shows no signs of slowing down. ...
How The Most Successful Companies Plan and Implement A Reorg
Why The Reorg? I stumbled upon an older study from 2010 that caught my eye. It was authored by McKinsey & Company to determine the benefits, if any, of a corporate reorganization. Corporate reorgs are common these days. With so many start-ups, particu...
Succession Planning Isn’t Just for CEOs
A Succession Plan Matters For The Entire Organization If you asked your CEO what would happen if he or she left the company, you would likely be told of the succession plan in place. As critical as the CEO is to the company, there are plenty below who...
Learn to remember names and faces with Who’s Who game
“A person’s name is to him or her the sweetest and most important sound in any language.” – Dale Carnegie Dale Carnegie was onto something. The National Center for Biotechnology Information published an interesting report. Using functional magnetic re...
What Are You Doing to Ease New Employee Onboarding?
No Sugar-Coating It – Being A New Hire Can Suck At some point or another, you’ve been a new hire. If you can recall, there’s nothing fun about it. It’s lonely and you feel like everyone knows each other and what they’re doing except for you. While lan...
