Recognize This! – Old-school approaches to employee recognition do not deliver the business results companies need.

Today on Compensation Café, I…

Recognize This! – More and more companies are realizing the power of strategic employee recognition to reinforce and drive desired behaviors in the daily work of employees.…

Recognize This! – While few employees will choose to permanently ink their skin with your logo, far more will indelibly tattoo your values and ambitions on their hearts and minds when recognized for their efforts, contributions and achievements.

I’ve heard a lot of …

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…

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…

Recognize This! – Balancing employee happiness and performance is critical to long-term, sustainable employee engagement and impact.…

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?…

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…

Recognize This! – Recognition can impact and even fix many aspects of HR.

As regular readers can imagine, I’m a fan of research. Research from multiple angles and sources can lead us to better decisions and applications. In addition to the external research I make a practice to seek out (from the usual suspects of Towers…

Recognize This! – Leading with clarity, in the moment and in alignment with core values is critical to employees achieving desired goals.

Occasionally in Recognize This!, I like to share advice and lessons from leaders of well known companies. Today, those lessons are on presence and failure from the CEOs of Twitter…

Recognize This! – Serious research is building a compelling business case for a positivity-filled workplace.

I have been in Berlin this past week speaking at the Pan-Euro HR conference on a favourite topic — new social technologies that can…

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…

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…

Recognize This! – Strategy can only be executed by those who intimately understand strategic objectives and their role in it.

Strategy is one of my passions. I’m fortunate that helping clients formulate strategy is also my job. Indeed, my…

Recognize This! – Innovation is not just the big, market-transforming end result, but the little ideas along the way.

What’s the most powerful word in business today? Innovation.

Read any blog, any news source, any prospectus and you will quickly stumble over “innovation.” How the company pursues…

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

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…

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. …

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…