How a job is designed — the role of the job, essentially — is extremely important to how a person performs, and we need to understand and discuss this more. First? A quick personal story. I recently got laid off… Continue Reading
Do we spend too much analyzing ‘what makes people happy at work’ instead of addressing the real issues? Continue Reading
There’s a lot of research in workforce management / HR / organizational health / organizational development circles around high-performing employees, and there’s almost no research around bad / toxic employees. This is probably fairly logical: we don’t often discuss failure at… Continue Reading
Look at the Slideshare above, and specifically head on over to Slide No. 32. It should look something like this:
Here’s what we do know: the companies that regularly appear on “best places to work” lists have one major thing in common, and that’s training their employees. Here’s what we also know: budgets are tight, margins are slim, and most top dogs… Continue Reading
I write about leadership all the time. Honestly, I probably write about it way too much. I think I have elements of “strong leadership” in my personality, but day-to-day I’m a rank-and-file employee at a mid-size company … so I… Continue Reading
For people that care about this kind of stuff (**raises hand**), now seems to be kind of a landmark time in the “Intersection Of Happiness And Work” research/execution world. Will Davies wrote an article for The Atlantic in June on… Continue Reading
Could write one million words on this topic — and in the process, bore the hell out of everyone reading — but instead, I’ll take a quote from this Fast Company article and we’ll go from there: You already know… Continue Reading