Is it money, fame, bragging rights, remote work, no dress code, corner office, expense account? What is it that employees really want from their place of employment? If we really dig into it, once extrinsic benefits such as salary, fair treatment, and benefits are at an acceptable level, intrinsic benefits become comparatively underserved. Intrinsic benefits? …
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The vast majority of job descriptions under-serve employees and yield little inspiration or clarity. With at least 50% of the workforce in a perpetual state of confusion with regard to what is expected of them, you begin to wonder if we can do better. We can. It starts by ‘getting in sync’ as Ray D’Alio …
The gender pay gap frequently gets dismissed as a result of women’s choices. People who don’t want to entertain the thought that inequality is rife blame the ‘choice’ of women to work less hours, choose tending to their family or not demonstrating leadership. The problem is these ‘reasons’ aren’t empty canned responses. In 29 US …
Looking at the statistics related to workplace contentment makes for pretty grim reading. Employee engagement is down to about 30%. Studies have shown that, on a scale of 1 to 5, 60% of workers feel at a stress level of 3 and above on any given work day. Work life balance is not trending in …
You have a huge project due on a fast-approaching timeline. You are rushing in early and working later than you’d like but the job doesn’t get much closer to being finished. You just can’t get into a solid rhythm. Your phone keeps buzzing, meetings keep happening, and you are still accountable for other tasks. Sound …
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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 …
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 …
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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 …
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, …
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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 …
