Great work teams are like engines. You can fit your car with the most powerful V8 engine on the market, but refusing to care for it and give it oil won’t do you much good. Similarly, putting together a group of talented, high performers doesn’t always guarantee that a quality sense of teamwork will emerge… Click to read more…
Very few would argue that when it comes to maximizing employee retention and performance, nothing is more important than employee satisfaction. Therefore, it stands to reason that if your employees aren’t satisfied, you don’t have a company – or at least one that will last very long. One of the most relevant factors of employee… Click to read more…
For many of us, the eight-hour workday seems about as normal as fireworks on the 4th of July. To understand how this common workday tradition came about, let’s take a journey back in time to 1817 when fair-labor advocate Robert Owen popularized the term “Eight hours labor, eight hours recreation, eight hours rest” as a… Click to read more…
Our last post covered planning for the change. Now comes the challenging part – implementing the change. Be prepared for a “bumpy ride”. The implementation phase incorporates five practices that you will need to address. Start at the top. Any change is always unsettling to people. All eyes turn to Human Resources and leadership for… Click to read more…
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, a Harvard Business School professor who has written extensively about change management, has stated that successful companies develop “a culture that just keeps moving all the time.” This presents organizational leadership and Human Resources with the challenge of understanding the human side of change management – alignment of the organization’s culture, values,… Click to read more…
What will be different about the organization of the future? How might your organization change as it evolves? How will these changes impact how HR organizations function? Organizations are increasingly under pressure from multiple sources, including technologies, markets, customers, employee expectation, government, and public opinion. Simultaneously, the economy has become increasingly service oriented and digital,… Click to read more…
Currently, unemployment is at a near twenty-year low. There are more jobs available than workers looking for them. The big question – is this a short-term or a long -term issue? If your organization is experiencing this now, how are you addressing it? What is your strategy for addressing it in the future? There is… Click to read more…
Anyone who has felt even a hint of jealousy – and most of us have – knows that it’s like a curse. The moment it takes hold, it doesn’t hesitate to create a toxic work environment filled with resentment and hostility. But as a natural human emotion, that’s unavoidable, right? Not necessarily – if you… Click to read more…
As we reflect on 2018, there’s no doubt that the last year brought a lot to the table when it came to innovating HR methods and the business world in general. We saw changes implemented to improve the work-life balance of employees, a higher emphasis on diversity and inclusion, and increased applications for more than… Click to read more…
Have you ever felt emotionally detached from your work? If you said yes you’re certainly not alone, and if you said no…please leave a comment telling us what your secret is. Whether it’s due to sleep deprivation, being overworked, or something crazy going on in our personal lives, most of us have days when we… Click to read more…