All Blog Posts Tagged 'strategic' (113)

Recognize This! – Knowing the mission, how to contribute and being empowered to do so drive employee happiness and innovation.

Regular readers know I’m a big proponent of Big Data – especially…

Recognize This! – Give all employees the tools and systems needed to reinforce your desired culture every day for everyone.

Your company leadership makes a commitment to build a strong culture. They understand how powerful of a differentiator culture can be in the market. They know what kind of positive culture they want to instill and they take steps…

Recognize This – The act of recognition alone isn’t enough. You must also pay close attention to what you say to recognize or praise others, how you say it and when you say it.

Employee recognition done right is easy, but it’s not simple. An article in Time…

Recognize This! – Translating the benefits of employee recognition to bottom-line results will help secure the executive sponsorship you need for program success.

Yesterday, I wrote about…

Recognize This! – Simply responding to team member emails or information sharing communicates your recognition of their effort and work.

During the last five years or so that I’ve been blogging about employee recognition and rewards, I’ve written innumerable posts on…

Recognize This! – We can choose to be happier (and more engaged) at work. These steps help.

Are you a happy person, generally? Do you tend to have an optimistic, “glass is half full” demeanor and approach to life? If so, does that tend to carry over into your work and workplace, or do you find that workplace pressures, stresses or negative…

Recognize This! – The 5 top drivers of stress in the annual performance appraisal process are easily overcome through crowdsourcing with social recognition.

Why does the traditional…

Recognize This! – Evaluating team contribution and performance is as important as evaluating individual performance.

Today in his always excellent Three Star Leadership blog, management guru Wally Bock said this:

“When you review performance you should review both team and team member performance. Pay attention to…

Recognize This! – Employee engagement is a good indicator of company strength and future for investors.

How effective are the UK efforts to make employee engagement a nationwide concern through its Engage for Success initiative? This article of one person’s experience at a recent Engage for Success event is positive and encouraging, but not earth shattering.…

Recognize This! – Without clear, meaningful, intuitive guiding principles, it’s hard to make quick decisions that can keep your organization moving at the top of your market.

The Disease: Analysis paralysis – becoming stuck in the thinking/researching/discussing process to the point a decision to move forward is never made.

The Symptoms: Best explained by Matt Monge in a…

Recognize This! – Living your values also means being willing to defend your values.

Are you following the Apple/Samsung patent infringement lawsuit? I’ll admit, I’m an Apple fan. I use and enjoy their products at work and at home. The iPhone is no exception.

When you understand what it took to invent the iPhone, it’s easy to understand why…

Recognize This! – Everyone needs feedback and encouragement on the work they do, regardless of generation.

It seems I’ve written a few posts recently on “Questions I’m frequently asked.” Here’s one more: “Derek, what are the differences in how the various generations should be recognized?” Or sometimes it’s phrased a bit more bluntly: “Derek, don’t you see Gen Y demanding more recognition and that having a negative impact on recognition overall?”

My usual…