Derek Irvine's Blog Posts Tagged 'recognition' (245)

Recognize This! – You can, however, remove roadblocks and recognize and reinforce desired behavior to create a motivating work environment.

The quotation in the title is from one of my favorite blogs on leadership: Blanchard…

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! – Good managers step up and take action, even when not required, on behalf of their team and the customer.

Life is full of errands – things we must do, even if we don’t consider them fun or enlightening. Shopping for groceries, picking up dry-cleaning, or – one my least favorite – dealing with government…

Recognize This! – Employee appreciation should happen every day.

Today is Employee Appreciation Day. This irritates me. The fact of my irritation may surprise regular readers who know that employee appreciation and recognition are very important to me. There are three simple reasons why Employee Appreciation…

Recognize This! – Incentives and employee recognition are two very different programs. Be sure you’re selecting the right one for your goals and then implementing it correctly.

Once again, a theme seems to be running through my RSS reader – the problem with incentives. Incentives can have a role to…

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! – We can train our brains for positivity, not negativity. And when we do, our brains function 30% more effectively, changing the formula for success.

I enjoy Ted Talks. This most recent one is no exception. Given by Shawn Achor (with high energy and great good humour), “The Happiness Advantage: Research Linking Happiness and Science” unpacks how our…

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! – 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…

Recognize This! – Compensation and praise/recognition are very different and fulfill very different employee needs.

Let’s be honest with each other and – more importantly – with our employees.…