All Blog Posts Tagged 'management' (173)

Recognize This! – If you’re going to invest in employee recognition and rewards, make sure your rewards measure up to your recognition.

My team of consultants and I regularly engage with clients to help them…

Recognize This! – Cumbersome, yet limited, 360-degree reviews tried to solve the problems of the traditional annual performance review but missed the mark.

Regular readers know my CEO, Eric Mosley, recently published his latest e-book,…

Recognize This! – The insights of the many are nearly always more knowledgeable and accurate than the insights of one.

The annual performance review is broken. We all know this. I’ve written about the reasons why (too infrequent, given from one point of view) several times.

The solution?…

Recognize This! – You need every leader on board with your initiatives to achieve your success goals in the new year.

2013 is just around the corner. The turning of the new year is a prime opportunity to reset expectations and goals for employees, realigning everyone behind your strategic objectives. Are your managers ready for this…

Recognize This! – Managers must make the tough decisions – and the good ones – their role calls for.

What’s the worst “people practice” you’ve heard? To borrow an American phrase, I’ve heard some real doozies in my career. And then there’s this one, forwarded to me by an American…

Recognize This! – LinkedIn explains the difference between culture, values and behaviors.

Yesterday I wrote about the steps needed to proactively manage company culture. Today, I’d like to look at one company who does just that –…

Recognize This! – Creating a powerful, positive culture takes work, but strategic recognition makes it easier.

I’m thrilled that more and more I’m seeing the topic of company culture being discussed, critically, as a key contributor to organization success and not a “warm fuzzy HR initiative.” As an example, I strongly recommend…

Recognize This! – “While” can turn a challenge into an opportunity.

Quite a lot of kerfuffle hit the HR blogosphere in the last few weeks after the appearance of KMPG International’s “Rethinking Human Resources in a Changing World” report.

Without going into all of that, let’s look at HR’s three core challenges as…

Recognize This! – Getting permanent behavior change requires time, repetition and emotional impact.

You need your employees to quickly change their focus to new objectives to keep pace with rapidly changing market conditions. Perhaps you need to change the culture of your organization to one that is positive, appreciative and based on employees living your core values in their daily work and interactions with each other.

But that’s not easy to do. Recent…

Recognize This! – Culture management continues to rise in importance to HR leaders as the ability to measure and analyze culture also improves through strategic employee recognition.

Last Friday in a broader post on how to get more value out of your core values, I alluded…

Recognize This! – More feedback, freely given, in a timely and relevant way makes the performance management process more useful for all participants as well as the company as a whole.

It’s that time of year again. The time HR Pros, managers and employees alike dread. The annual performance review. Fraught with anxiety on all sides, no one likes the annual performance review process. There is simply too much tied up into it for all…

Recognize This! – Employees require purpose and meaning to their work in order to fully engage and give their best effort.

It’s interesting to me how often themes seem to converge across the various news and blog sources I follow. Today is one example – “Why” seemed to crop up rather frequently. Here are just 3 examples.

Why Am I Here?

From a perennial favorite of mine, the Blanchard LeaderChat blog, is…

Recognize This! – “Feedback” is not the same as “annual performance review.”

What do you need most in your work? Sure, the cynics will say “to be left alone.” But most of us want to know if what we’re doing is right.

That’s why I argue Gen Y / millennial employees are not…