June 2012 Blog Posts (18)

Recognize This! – The culture you create in your organization drives every result, positive or negative.

I write often about company culture, especially about the importance of creating a culture of recognition in which employees choose to engage. But let’s take a step back. How many kinds…

Today’s post is a quick catch-up on my recent Compensation Caféposts. Be sure to click through for the full story.

Executives Would Give Up Incentives for a Little Recognition (27^th June 2012)

PwC recently published a quite comprehensive report,…

Recognize This! – Your company values do you no good unless employees know how to live them in their daily work.

I think it’s a fairly safe bet to say most companies today have defined set of core values – behaviors and ideals the executive team has invested a good deal of time and effort in defining as the “how” of employee efforts as they work to complete the “what” (results/deliverables).

There is a very great difference, however, in having values,…

Recognize This! – You can learn a lot about recognition done right in just 30 minutes.

Well, it’s not everything you need to know, but I’m impressed with how much ground we were able to cover thanks to William and Byran’s expert guidance. Three weeks ago I had the opportunity to join Bryan Wempen and William Tincup on their DriveThru HR program…

Recognize This! –There are great resources on how to manage better. And now they’re all in one place.

Do you ever wish you could have an easy-to-hand resource of the best management advice from the people you follow in blogs? I know I do. I follow many excellent bloggers and have read and internalized sound management advice over the last many years. Yet there are many times I wish I could have quickly referenced the wisdom of these many others.

Now I can…

Recognize This!  – How you receive feedback is as important as how you give it.

We can’t be great 100% of the time. Yes, we all work hard and want to do a good job, but sometimes we miss the mark. Or perhaps the “mark” moved on us and we didn’t adjust in time. Frankly, sometimes our personalities are a poor fit. And in those instances, we need honest feedback on how we’re doing in order to improve.

Yet in today’s culture it seems far less likely we’ll have…

Recognize This! – Culture chiefs play a role in setting the tone, but every employee is responsible for owning your culture.

I’ve just wrapped up a busy week of international travel, meetings and workshops. Thankfully, I work with a strong group of consultants who helped out. But this isn’t surprising. This is part of the culture of Globoforce - determination and respect (for urgency and teamwork) are two of…

Recognize This! – Manager challenges still lead the pack on employee reasons for leaving.

David Witt, writing in the Blanchard LeaderChat blog, recently highlighted the top 10 reasons why employees quit from the employees’ perspective. And this is very different than the employer perspective in which “9 out of 10 will tell you it’s about the…

Recognize This! – The ability to focus on others and not just yourself is critical to success in today’s workplace.

What do you want most in your employees? A good work ethic? Trustworthiness? A non-complainer?

Recently in TLNT, Editor John…

Recognize This! – Strategic focus is deeply embedded in a strong Total Rewards profession moving forward.

Recent Total Rewards research conducted by WorldatWork surveyed 2,300 HR pros from around world on the top factors they see as critical to moving the Total Rewards profession forward. Those four factors from the research are…

Recognize This! – Years of Service acknowledgement does not equal strategic employee recognition.

Part of my role as head of consulting with Globoforce is to help clients educate others within their organization that having a Years of Service program (also known as Long Service or Milestone Anniversary) is not the same as a strategic, social recognition program.…

Recognize This! – Creating a strong culture requires careful focus and intention.

What’s your ambition for the culture of your organization? If you intend to create and preserve a strong company culture of recognition – one that drives engagement, productivity and performance – how do you that?

1) Focus on Your Culture

If culture is to be central to how the people who make up your organization work and behave every day, then culture…

Recognize This! – We are all responsible for our own happiness, but we can easily contribute to the happiness of others as well.

In a post on her Compensation Force blog, Ann Bares pointed me to this discussion by Carr Hagerman on happiness in the workplace:

“If you want happiness in the workplace, hire people that are happy for crying out loud,…

Recognize This! – Feedback is useless unless it is frequent, timely and gathered from multiple sources.

Feedback. How often should we give it? Who should give it? When should it be given? What format to deliver it should be used?

All of these are good questions, but are we all in agreement on what feedback is?

Steve Roesler, author of the All Things Workplace blog, recently…

Recognize This! – Improving employees’ physical environment with no concern for the culture they work in every day can result in decreased engagement.

An interesting study was conducted in the Philippines, comparing the results of “employee engagement” efforts at two companies. Company A “made…

Recognize This! – Understanding the difference between transactional and emotional engagement can mean the difference between success and failure of engagement efforts.

Following on yesterday's post in which I made clear that employee engagement is a commitment, not an event, it’s…

Recognize This! – Your company (and your culture) is only as strong as your people.

Readers of my blog know a central theme for me is company culture. In fact, it’s the subject of the book I co-wrote with my CEO Eric Mosley, Winning with a Culture of…