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Beginners Guide to Employee Engagement
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Beginners Guide to Employee Engagement

Employee engagement is the biggest evolution in human resource and performance management strategy in the last 20 years. It deviates from the old carrot and stick extrinsic motivators and gets to the heart of what drives employees. Engagement centers around aligning employees’ career goals to that of the business and has been generating staggering economic benefits.  A study by Gallup …

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How can I motivate my team and employees
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How can I motivate my team and employees? Try Frederick Herzberg’s Two Factor Theory

What makes people happy and motivated at work is what they do. What makes people unhappy is the situation in which they do it. Frederick Herzberg Motivation is a fickle source of fuel in today’s workforces and it is resulting in inconsistent productivity and output. Most companies see employees accomplish most of their tasks on a Monday but by the …

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employee strengths vs weaknesses
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Should I focus on my strengths or weaknesses?

Just think about this for a moment: if you got an A and an F on your report card, which would you focus on? Probably the ‘F’ because we want to fix everything, right? Now which subject do you think you are more likely to succeed in? Kids are taught that to be successful you must be well rounded and …

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clear is kind in the workplace
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What do you mean by “Clear is kind, unclear is unkind”?

Dr. Brene Brown sat in a AA 12-step meeting listening to slogans and platitudes, brushing most of them off but, one seemed to stick in the back of her mind. “Clear is kind, unclear is unkind”.  “I saw the data about how most of us avoid clarity because we tell ourselves that we’re being kind, when what we’re actually doing …

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The Dark Side of Remote Work
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4 Hidden Problems with Remote Work

2020 was the single biggest case study on remote work in history and it began with glistening reviews. Once the 42% of the US workforce who worked remotely got past the technical hiccups, the flexibility, lack of commute, cheaper lifestyle and increased family time were loved. Even our pets were living out the dream of having parents around all the …

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how do I have a one to one meeting?
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How do you run a 1-on-1 meeting? (and why are 1-on-1s so important?)

For decades, General Electric delivered feedback to their employees on only an annual basis. This theory was based on Jack Welch’s brutal philosophy coined the ‘rank and yank’ where he insisted on boiling employee annual reviews down to 1 number and those who performed in the bottom 10% were fired. Luckily, the art and science of people management has come …

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