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Today on Compensation Café * More Themes from WorldatWork “Trends in Employee Recognition” Report

Recognize This! – Old-school approaches to employee recognition do not deliver the business results companies need.Today on Compensation Café, I shared additional insight into the 2013 WorldatWork “Trends In…See More

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The Importance of Behavior-Based Recognition and Reward – A Goldman Sachs Illustration

Recognize This! – Deeply embedding your core values in how employees are rewarded is critical to overcome too much emphasis on results achievement to the detriment of company reputation.A foundational tenet of strategic employee recognition is …See More

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Creating a Culture of Recognition: It’s Simple, But Not Easy

Recognize This! – Balancing business goals and heartfelt recognition is the goal of strategic recognition and culture management.I have the honour of doing what I love for my job – I help company leaders transform their cultures into ones of appreciation and recognition. Creating these…See More

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The Confluence of Happiness and Performance = Engagement

Recognize This! – Balancing employee happiness and performance is critical to long-term, sustainable employee engagement and impact.Earlier this week, I shared insight from Eventbrite…See More

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Can Your Employees Achieve Your Vision or Just Quote It?

Recognize This! – The worth of a corporate vision statement is in employees’ ability to understand and contribute to achieving it every day.What’s your company’s vision? If that isn’t defined in so many words, what would you say is your CEO’s primary goal for your organization? Can you put it into your own words? More importantly, do you know how to contribute to achieving that…See More

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What Engages You?

Recognize This! – Sometimes, removing bureaucracy and getting out of people’s way are the most “engaging” things you can do.Last month, I wrote a post on 3 Good Reasons Employee Engagement Surveys Fail. I talked about the reality of your most disengaged employees…See More

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Don’t Think Retention Is an Issue? Here’s Why You Should Reconsider

Recognize This! – Traditional approaches to retention may no longer be enough.Granted, the recover from the recession has been mediocre at best. In this reality, many company leaders have become complacent in regards to talent, assuming employees don’t have good options elsewhere so they’ll continue to stay put.Those days are rapidly coming to an end. John Hollon, editor of…See More

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3 Ways Employee Engagement Surveys Fail

Recognize This! – Don’t bother to survey employees on their engagement unless you’re willing to invest time and money to resolve difficult, deep, cultural challenges their answers may bring to light.Sometimes, we need to air our HR dirty laundry. Let’s bring into the light of day how surveys are traditionally conducted and then acted upon. Indeed, let’s stop torturing our employees…See More

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Today on Compensation Cafe: What the Oreo Cookie Teaches Us about Global Employee Recognition

Recognize This! – Never assume the local approach for employee recognition and rewards will work equally well globally.Today on Compensation…See More

May 17

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Top Retention Strategy: Strategic Employee Recognition

Recognize This! – A culture of recognition is one of the most powerful means of retaining top talent.In the last few months in my travels to lead workshops with clients and to present at various HR and strategy conferences around the world, I’m hearing a repeated refrain about employee retention. In my (admittedly unscientific) survey of these large, global companies, the…See More

May 15

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An “Effective” Culture Is in Your Hands. What Are You Doing about It?

Recognize This! – All employees own the company culture because their daily actions and behaviors impact how the culture is experienced by themselves and others.Culture. I write about it all the time, yet…See More

May 13

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2 Factors Critical to Building Trust (and Engagement) at Work

Recognize This! – Managers must be willing to engage in the difficult aspects of managing others in order to help all employees achieve to their best ability.As I continue to catch up on a backlog in my readers and research feeds, I’m seeing themes emerge. One is around the importance of trust for employee engagement. Employees who do not trust company leadership will not (indeed,…See More

May 10

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What Does “Meaningful Work” Really Mean?

Recognize This! – Only the employee can define what is meaningful work to them. Leaders, however, are critical for helping them catch the vision.Yesterday, I wrote about the importance of engaging in…See More

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