You want happier employees? Channel the construction industry.
Three simple tenets that one (perhaps unexpected) industry does well. Continue Reading
Employee Engagement
Maybe ideation software isn’t helping
Everywhere you look these days, there seem to be different kinds of tools and software to make it easier to listen to (and subsequently engage) your employees. Often this will be something cloud-based, promising “real-time feedback,” and/or “actionable insights,” etc.… Continue Reading
IBM is about to cut 26 percent of its workforce? Jesus Christ.
One of America’s most iconic companies, on the ropes. Continue Reading
Employee feedback: Confidentiality screws up accountability
One of the most remarkable things to me about the evolution (revolution?) of business in the modern era is this seeming dichotomy: Organizations now strive to get real-time feedback from customers (think social media, tracking tools, etc.) Organizations still basically… Continue Reading
Respect your employees. It seems like a soft skill, but it matters.
Before we get started here, let’s be upfront about something right at the jump-off. Respect, as a concept, doesn’t have a universal definition. It means different things to different people, and it can be shown different ways, and it can vary… Continue Reading
On employee engagement and sales
I’d venture to guess that a lot of people in standard business roles, when they hear a term like “Employee engagement,” they think of a fluffy cloud hovering around the Human Resources department. They don’t know exactly what it is, but it… Continue Reading
Organizational breakthroughs can come from where you least expect it
I just read this article on Fast Company about employee engagement — it’s co-written by the CEO of Waggl and the co-CEO of Affero Lab — which makes some really good points. If you’ve read this blog even once, you probably know I’m pretty… Continue Reading
Is employee engagement tied to revenue?
I’ve written a lot about employee engagement on this blog — such as here and here — because it seems like a major topic of the next few years. Millennials will become the primary part of the workforce, and they… Continue Reading