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It’s said the reason we ask children what they want to be when they grow up is because we’re looking for ideas. 10% - 20% of us are presently out of work. Those who aren’t understand quite well that with the next reorganization, we could be out o... More...

An article in the Harvard Business Review last month discussed the value of analytics in HR, describing how detailed analytics let, for example, Best Buy prove the value of a 0.1% increase in employee engagement at a particular store is an addit... More...

This fall we’re deep in the thick of helping a number of Clients plan and execute extensive multi-year implementations of leadership and culture development processes to dramatically boost customer service, product/service quality, safety, employee e... More...

My last blog post discussed some of the commitment confusion and challenges we see with many management teams we’re working with. Here are two key behaviors that send very loud, visual messages about managers’ true priorities: Visible, Felt Le... More...

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. The happiest and most effective people are Leaders who may need a “therapeutic visit to Pity City” but bounce back from changes, setbacks, and problems. However, most people are Followers and wait for someon... More...

I saw two headlines recently that really confirmed what human resource professionals have long known: I nnovation comes from people who have had their creative drive nurtured and encouraged, and does not require massive investments in technology t... More...

Employees are our biggest asset and investment, so shouldn't we expect to get the greatest ROI from their service? Many business struggle with the issue of keeping employees (whether old or new) engaged in their jobs, but few seem to have answe... More...

Does a brand like Harvard, Stanford or MIT bring extra value in leadership training? Should you send your emerging corporate leaders there for executive training? Think hard about that: The value gained from such executive management courses is signi... More...

Why should you care about employee engagement? Because it directly impacts shareholder return, EPS, financial improvement and competitive advantage. Hewitt research found a 63% differential in total shareholder return for companies with high emp... More...

Engaged employees create financial success. Gallup has found causation. “We find that the path from the individual engagement elements to financial performance is stronger than the path from financial performance to engagement.” What doe... More...

Leaders set the tone for their followers and organizations. Every leader from team lead to CEO makes an impact on others. Whether or not leaders know it, their followers monitor, magnify, and often mimic their behaviors. I worked with a company where... More...

If you ask 100 human resource professionals why people leave, 90 will probably answer that “employees leave supervisors, not companies.” Twenty years ago that may have been true, but newer studies are finding that such thinking wrong. It’s NOT just t... More...

That’s right. You can’t “get” engagement from employees. They can’t “give” you engagement, either. That’s because “engagement” isn’t a thing to be had. It’s a state of being that you can only foster. Or, as Dov Seidman recently put it in a terrific p... More...

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Time management remains a core focus within leadership, coaching and mentoring programs. Inevitably, to keep the subject fresh, new buzz words and soon-to-be clichés pop up to put new clothes on old concepts. You take the new label with a grain of s... More...

Today I called up a candidate to find out if he is willing to move out of his comfort zone, I mean open to explore a challenging assignment elsewhere. It's a regular affairs for me, because most the clients I handle strictly believe in recruiting... More...

It’s the dog days of summer. People are enjoying their last days of vacation. Here’s a bit of laughter for you on a Summer day. Think your company is above average (or possibly below) when it comes employee engagement? How do you stack up against ... More...

Why should you care about employee engagement and enablement? Hay Group in the UK recently released these numbers: • 59% of UK employees started 2010 planning to find a new job • Organizations that engage and enable employees reduce voluntary t... More...

My 15-year-old daughter, Courtney, recently participated along with 130 other girls in the Junior Teen division of the National American Miss Pageant for the state of Missouri. She has competed in pageants before, and despite some of my early reserv... More...

“We need to reorganize the company/division/department to get everyone in the right seats and productivity and profits will really take off!” -A manager at a loss how to solve his productivity problem Corporate reorganizations are a great way for... More...

David Zinger just published his latest e-book collection: The Top Tens of Employee Engagement . A collection of advice on engagement from members of the Employee Engagement Network, The Top Tens is a solid handbook of ideas for engagement along ... More...

By Eric Davis and Mary Ann Downey Diversity and inclusion are, in some ways, like peanut butter and jelly. They're not the same but are often combined, making up a whole that's more than the sum of its parts. So when i4cp - on behalf of its member... More...

Since 1987 I’ve worked with corporate leaders to improve employee productivity, and I have found that most organizations don’t take advantage of the ‘stars’ they work so hard to hire. They inadvertently but immediately begin limiting those stars’ res... More...

Does the idea of employee recognition feel too “warm and fuzzy” to be considered a viable business strategy where you work? Join us as we take a look at a new and innovative approach for measuring the effectiveness of recognition. We’ll show you h... More...

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Losing Your Job? Psychological, Spiritual and Practical Advice

Analytics & Employee Recognition: Finding the Recognition ROI

Keys to Strategic HR Leadership

Management Team Behaviors That Speak Louder Than Words

Bouncing Back from Adversity is a Critical Leadership Skill

Ignite Innovation: Engage your Employees!

Do you hate your employees? Do your employees hate you?

Should your company pay for Harvard-style executive training?

Employee Engagement Continues to Fall, along with Shareholder Return

Gallup Finds Causation: Engaged Employees Generate More Financial Success (not the other way around)

What's your Leadership Impact?

What drives employees away? It's not just a bad boss (although that helps)!

How to Get Engagement * You Can’t

HR Data Management: Gains Through Employee Empowerment

New time management techniques, from the world of sports? Yes!

A Cruelly Innovative Retention Policy!

Employee Engagement Video Fun

Moving Beyond Engagement to Enablement

Nurturing the leader in all of us.

Resist the horrors of reorganization

Top Tens of Employee Engagement * Actionable Advice from Industry Leaders

Inclusion Measurement - Tracking the Intangible

Stop limiting your people: Bump team productivity 50% by eliminating bad corporate habits and mindsets.

Do you actively measure the ROI of your employee recognition programs?

Do you actively measure the ROI of your employee recognition programs?

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