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! – 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! – 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! – Your culture is alive. You must breathe life into it daily through timely recognition of those living your cultural DNA (your values).

Today, I’d like to share with you a case study on the importance of values and how you make them real. I’m using as my case study company Guidewire Software, which I learned of…

Recognize This! – Culture and strategy must be in balance in an organization to achieve the greatest business success.

Harvard Business School recently issued a new business Case on The LEGO Group, makers of the famous toy plastic building blocks I’m sure most of use recall…

Recognize This! – You must have the data and reports on your culture, driven by regular, frequent input from every employee, to be able to proactively manage your company culture on an ongoing basis.

How’s your company culture doing? Is it a powerful, positive impact for employees every day, reinforcing your core values in how the work gets done so everyone knows how…

Recognize This! – One consistent culture across an entire organization relies on leadership and example setting by the CEO.

Your CEO must set your company culture. He or she must demonstrate by example and reinforcement the culture they want to see permeate the organization. Alexander Kjerulf, the Chief Happiness…

Recognize This! – Employees need to know their efforts are noticed, recognized and valued as much as compensated as part of their job.

Who in your organization has the most direct impact on how your customers perceive the company? This, of course, varies by industry, but it’s rarely ever your senior executives. No, it’s…

Recognize This! – Merging the people and the cultures of two organizations is the most difficult and crucial element of a M&A event.

The long anticipated merger of two major US airlines is now official. American Airlines and US Airways will merge their operations, their customer bases, and – most critically – their…

Recognize This! – Wise CEOs monitor company culture and proactively manage it.

Regular readers know I enjoy the weekly “Corner Office” column in the Sunday New York Times. I was catching up on a few columns and noticed similar themes from two CEOs in entirely different industries – and continents.…

Recognize This! – Wise CEOs monitor company culture and proactively manage it.

Regular readers know I enjoy the weekly “Corner Office” column in the Sunday New York Times. I was catching up on a few columns and noticed similar themes from two CEOs in entirely different industries – and continents.…

Recognize This! – Gathering data on people management processes does little good unless you use it to ask the right questions and solve the right problems.

“Big data” is the latest buzz word entering HR lexicon. I’ve used it myself to explain…

Recognize This! – Executives are still missing the mark on understanding what employees need if they’re going to choose to engage fully in their work and achieving the organization’s objectives.

I greatly enjoyed the summary of…