Years ago, I worked for a boss who would have told you how much he admired, encouraged, and inspired discretionary effort. And he would have been wrong on all counts. However, he would have also told you that he went to great lengths to hire highly motivated people who would ensure his success as a […]
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Nancy O’Keefe, Author, Fighting The Talent Battle: How To Update Your Arsenal and Win the War Finding great employees is a top problem organizations struggle with today. It is getting more and more difficult to attract, motivate and retain employees with the skills that are needed in a fast-changing business and technological world. Business leaders should
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Kelly and Robby Riggs, Authors, Counter Mentor Leadership: How to Unlock the Potential of the 4-Generation Workplace Unfortunately, most managers aren’t interested in being better leaders. Not really. What they’re most interested in is blaming the younger generation. From slumping sales to dismal employee engagement, it’s all the fault of those entitled, lazy, glued-to-their-phones Millennials. We
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Steve Andrew, Vice President, Marketing, IFS North America The United States economy is nearing full employment. As the availability of skilled employees continues to tighten, talent has become a primary constraint faced by businesses intent on growth. And at this point in the 21st Century requires the adoption of technologies that deliver the benefits of digital
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Tina Hodges, CEO and Chief Experience Officer, Advance Financial Employee engagement may sound like a workplace trend or HR buzz term, but when embraced by company leadership and planned strategically, it’s anything but a fleeting concept. Taking a holistic approach to employee engagement is a sound business practice even today when digital engagement beckons and
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Piyush Patel, Author, Lead Your Tribe, Love Your Work: An Enterpreneur’s Guide to Creating a Culture That Matters After almost a year of hard work and plenty of late nights, my team at Digital-Tutors launched a greatly overhauled version 2.0 of our online training platform in early 2010—about a year before Netflix made online video
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Tim Cole, Founder & CEO, The Compass Alliance “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sail.” ~ William Arthur Ward An intriguing factor continues to challenge many organizations and indications are strong that the crisis will not subside in the near term. That challenge – the continued disenfranchisement
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Doug Sharp, President, Americas Corporate Solutions, JLL Three Ways to Improve Employee Engagement and Productivity Do your employees feel inspired to show up and give their best, or are they sending an S.O.S.? Mounting evidence demonstrates the real financial impact that employee engagement has on companies. Gallup research indicates that highly engaged business units experienced
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Dave Crenshaw, Author, The Power of Having Fun How would you describe your company culture? It’s such a hard question to answer for many executives because it may not be clearly defined—or worse—it’s the typical corporate office “blah” feeling. The feeling that causes employees to put their heads down and count down each second before
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Kay Kendall, CEO & Principal, BaldrigeCoach The Baldrige National Quality Award is the nation’s only Presidential award for performance excellence. It is given to organizations that demonstrate sustained excellence across a variety of measures. Having worked with 19 recipients as well as recipients of the top level awards from Baldrige-based state and regional programs, we have
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