Is How Americans Feel About Their Jobs Changing?
How Do Americans Feel about Their Jobs? This is probably important to know for post recession business recovery. A recent survey partnered by Yahoo! Finance and Parade give us new insights. They called their project the Job Happiness Survey. The purpose was to discover how Americans view their jobs, working cultures, career priorities, and prospects. […]
A Study of Ten Key Factors That Contribute To Employee Engagement
What are the keys to employee engagement? What drives employees to come to work on a Monday morning charged up and ready to go? A recent compilation of data received from 281 companies and over 970,500 employees points to 10 key factors that contribute to employee engagement. The survey was conducted by Peter Barron Stark. Companies with […]
How To Turn A Embarrasing Business Purchase Into An Opportunity
I will never forget the time when my husband and I met at the home of a high end business coach whose program we had enrolled in. He handed us a piece of paper and said, ” You need a brochure, a website, a product (book), and a speech. ” Then he said with pride, “This is your marketing […]
Want to Refine Your Culture? Start A Culture Club
How do you get employees to champion your work culture? You need to inspire and motivate them from within your own organization. One way to do this is to get them talking about your culture, which is your company “personality” or way of being. Here is how one company is achieving this. Print Art, Inc. […]
Honesty, Integrity, Accountability… Where Are These Values?
Many United States citizens believe that along with a deep recession there is a leadership crisis. Honesty is delivered with spin. Ethics are situational. With elections right around the corner, leaders everywhere are likely wondering what they can do to gain constituent support. According to a recent survey titled “Leading the Way: The 2012 Leadership and […]
Do Names Impact Team Building Effectiveness?
What does diversity mean for workforce effectiveness? According to a new study that workers with more complex names are less favored than Smith, Jones and John. In a rapidly growing global workforce what are the implications? And, what are the implications for team cohesiveness, empathy, workforce tolerance and unity? Having a simple, easy-to-pronounce name is […]
Has Civility Left The Building in Many Workplace Cultures?
Earlier this year, I conducted a survey of over 2800 HR professionals worldwide. I polled these business professionals to see what organizational values would emerge as top priorities to improve workplace relationships between employees and managers. The results of the TIGERS survey ‘Trust and Communication’ seem to have good timing as there have been several […]
Civility in the Workplace Can Be Linked to Employee Absenteeism
Here’s an interesting statistic for HR Executives and Leadership Teams. Employee absenteeism costs an estimated $225.8 billion a year in lost productivity in the United States. This is a faily hefty chunk of change. So what prompts an employee to “call in sick?” Are they really sick? When a co-worker uses the expression, “I need a […]
Are More Employees Planning To Quit?
It appears that employee restlessness is again on the rise. Earlier this year I wrote about two million US employees giving their employers the pink slip in February, 2012. According to new data from Hay Group, more employees are planning to quit. This is in keeping with our projections that the will to correct trust and communication […]
Can “Executive Dream Teams” Be More than Just Fantasy?
The May issue of Fortune 500 magazine had an excellent article on what it takes to put together the ultimate “executive dream team.” Over the coming months, Fortune will be selecting nine business people based on varying criteria and “chemistry” to create an executive team they believe would crush any competition. They used Apple’s […]