People Management
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Cutting edge human resources: trends in talent optimization
Talent optimization is the future of work. Science, technology, analytics, and research will all help you leverage your people. Check out these resources.
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Employee Engagement
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What Ariana Grande’s “7 Rings” taught me about values
Your mission, vision, and values are critical to successfully executing your business strategy. Are yours clear and inspiring action?
Company Culture
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Going to Mars: How mission, vision, and values can make or break your strategy
Your mission, vision, and values can make or break your business strategy. Here’s how to design mission, vision, and values that inspire.
Employee Engagement
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Ignore your culture and it’s likely to go away.
Companies are recognizing the critical role that culture plays in hiring and retaining top talent. But corporate culture can’t be left to chance.
Employee Engagement
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Reason #4 why employees quit: poor organizational fit
Disengagement can be caused by misalignment with jobs, managers, and teams. Here’s reason number four why employees quit.
Hiring
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Reason #3 why good employees quit: team fit
There are four forces of employee disengagement and poor team fit is number three on the list. (Previously we’ve covered poor job fit and poor manager fit, which are reasons one and two.) Top organizations are built on high-functioning teams. That’s because a team that’s fully aligned is greater than the sum of its parts; team…
Employee Engagement
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These people problems are destroying your business—and HR can’t solve them.
Business leaders, can we talk? I’ve got some good news and some bad news. First the bad news: The vast majority of your businesses–regardless of your company size or industry–won’t reach their full potential this year. Instead, a variety of people issues will create risk for your business and destroy value. This “people tax” will…
People Management
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What is talent optimization?
Take a good hard look at your company. Is it performing at its absolute best? If you’re like most leaders, you struggle to overcome common business challenges like turnover, employee disengagement, a changing market, bad hires (the list goes on and on). In spite of your best efforts and your best intentions, you can’t quite…
People Management
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How to motivate frontline employees
Just because you ask cashiers to collect email addresses from customers doesn’t mean they will. They might not cross-sell products like you ask them to either, or even embody your brand promise of customer service. Motivating your frontline employees— i.e. cashiers and customer service reps—to support your business goals can be a struggle. You might consider…
Hiring
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Reason #1 why good employees quit: job fit
I quit. Those are the two words you least want to hear from a high-performing employee, especially if you’re running an SMB where maintaining headcount is all the more critical. It takes time to find good talent—and employee turnover costs add up—so losing even one worker can hurt. So why do good employees quit? If…
Employee Engagement
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Engage your grinders to improve employee engagement
Employee engagement is a buzzword for managers these days, and for good reason. We know that engaged employees are more likely to be productive, displaying more discretionary effort. With these benefits in mind, you can see that engaged employees are the key to a productive and profitable workforce. But when it comes to improving employee…
People Management
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5 inspiring human resources quotes for HR professionals
As a leader, you should always strive for continuous learning and personal development. One smart habit to adopt is a morning routine: highest achievers have one. Try waking up early to begin the day with positive thoughts and some reading to help you improve yourself. Here are five inspirational HR quotes to get your day…
Employee Engagement
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Friday Forward: How a weekly email changed the way I lead
Several years back, I started the simple practice of sending out a weekly Friday email to my employees. That seemingly little habit has changed my company, helped me to be a more inspirational leader, and it’s even transcended my organization and impacts tens of thousands of people around the world today. This is the story…
Employee Engagement
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5 ways to reward employees for standout performance
Decrease turnover and improve employee performance by using these techniques to reward your employees.
People Management
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6 low-cost employee engagement ideas
Employee engagement is essential to a productive, innovative workplace. Studies have shown that engaged employees are happier, healthier, more focused, and more loyal. In addition to being happy at work, engaged employees are dedicated to making the company better. Yet, worker engagement rates are dismally low: only one-third of U.S. employees are engaged according to Gallup…