May 2nd, 2018
We’ve been writing lately on the tremendous business value of having highly effective work teams, and the necessity of...
April 17th, 2018
Among the primary factors driving team performance are talent, employee engagement, strategy, and team dynamics.
Of the four, team dynamics is the one that organizations seem to most often...
March 13th, 2018
Having a strong culture is one of the best assets an organization can have. As business consultant Larry Alton has noted, the benefits include:
February 6th, 2018
Many articles discuss the cost of a bad hire. The U.S. Department of Labor has put the cost at one-third of the new hire’s salary, while a Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM) report found that the cost be as high as five times the new hire’s salary.
However, no matter how steep the cost of a bad hire...
January 3rd, 2018
Leadership author Jim Collins, known for his book “Good to Great,” has said, “Great vision without great people is irrelevant.”
In other words, having great people is mandatory for your organization to thrive. That’s why having quality talent selection and...
November 28th, 2017
Roy Cohen, formerly the CHRO of TruGreen and now a partner with the consultancy ResultsThroughPeople.com, has astutely observed that the current talent pool “depends on two things: the strength of your brand and the market.”
Clearly today the latter of the...
October 25th, 2017
According to Gallup’s “The State of the American Manager” report, just 30 percent of employees and 35 percent of managers are engaged at work.
Managers, Gallup finds, account for at least 70 percent of the variance in...
September 27th, 2017
Effective leaders are proactive instead of reactive. Rather than reacting to problems, they proactively promote employee performance and enable their teams to thrive.
As a leader, four critical tools enable you to proactively manage your team’s performance:
August 25th, 2017
While organizations should give all new employees early feedback about their behaviors and how they’re perceived, it’s IMPERATIVE to do so for new leaders.
Effective onboarding feedback empowers new leaders at your organization to align more quickly around the organization’s culture and expectations .Failing to...
July 23rd, 2017
As a leader, you’re going to run into employee performance problems. They’re inevitable and unavoidable. But they are addressable and often solvable. It’s important to address them quickly and effectively, so that the consequences of the performance problems are minimized for employees, your team, your department, and/or your...
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