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 […]
The Pitfalls of Social Media Go Beyond Employer “Snooping”
It’s like reading through juicy tabloids at the grocery checkout stand. When potential employers go online to verify a prospective candidate’s credentials or see if they have been naughty or nice, they often get more than they bargained for. It’s just a matter of time before hiring managers stumble across pictures and text postings in […]
How to Build Trust That Drives Business Results
How do you build trust to drive business results? The answer is with leadership transparency, will, collaboration and success. In the 2012 TIGERS Success Series survey, we asked over 2300 HR representatives in 101 countries what the biggest team hurdels they face is. Trust came up consistently as an issue. Another leadership development company has […]
Small Businesses Say Workers Are Not Prepared For Retirement
With Workforce Retention at the top of many leader’s minds keeping a team together after economic recovery could be “Benefits” driven issue. Yet small business owners often find that funding retirement is difficult to do and as a result could experience higher than normal turnover. In response to a looming crisis in worker retirement preparation, […]
Individual Stellar Performers VS a Collaborative Team Mindset
Copyright TIGERS Success Series By Dianne Crampton There is a lot of buzz these days about hiring the right employees and leaders to work in a team-oriented environment. Could it be we are a society that has been badly burned by so-called stellar performers that practiced autonomy and was never held accountable to anyone? (Think […]
Do Team Incentives Produce Products Faster?
Copyright TIGERS Success Series By Dianne Crampton Do team incentives result in producing quality products faster when a team approach is deployed? I think so. And for those of you who have not read the book, TIGERS Among Us – Winning Business Team Cultures and Why They Thrive, the 4 […]
How Being Perfect Retards Business Growth
By Dianne Crampton They call it sitting on the fence. This is when employees refuse to make decisions because they are afraid of making a mistake. These are your team mates who try to get something so perfect that they fail to take action. As a result, their innovations stagnate and their goals fizzle. This […]
Ray Jefferson: HR ‘Can Help Heal Our Country’
This is a reprint of a Society for Human Resource Management article announcing the importance of Human Resources for hiring US Military Veterans. First published in 2010, this article addresses the need for putting Military Veterans back to work, which is now an initiate focused on in the Los Angeles Job Fair.
5 Tips For Improving Your Team Building Success
The key to minimizing conflict and maximizing team building success is to pay attention to five important team functions. These functions are critical for every stage of the team building process and for every step the team takes to complete its mission.