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January 18, 2018
The Mind of the Leader: How to Lead Yourself, Your People, and Your Organization for Extraordinary Results
During the summer of 2015, Pierre Nanterme, the CEO of Accenture, scrapped the global consulting firm’s entire performance management system. He realized that after thirty good years, it no longer fulfilled its purpose. Accenture found that its global workforce had changed. Their people – and your people – are not motivated by being a number on a performance rating scale. Rather, today’s workforce is increasingly looking for meaning, human connectedness, true happiness, and a desire to contri...
5 Tips for Bringing More Mindfulness to Your Work
Imagine a workday where you have the regular onslaught of back-to-back meetings, inbox overload, texts, calls, requests, and other demands on your time and yet, throughout the day, you feel relaxed, clear minded, and energized. Sound too good to be true? It may be not as impossible as you might think.
The root cause of stress and work-related exhaustion does not come from what is happening in our external environment, but how we respond to it from our internal landscape; more specifically –...
January 16, 2018
Employees Need to Renew the Energy They Use: Q&A with Tony Schwartz
All day at work, employees are actively expending energy. But are they properly renewing it? According to Tony Schwartz, energy isn’t something we simply spend every day, it’s something we must also cultivate.
An expert on sustainable high performance and building more human workplaces, Tony is the CEO and founder of The Energy Project, a consulting firm that helps individuals uncover the internal roadblocks that keep them from performing at their best, and organizations to build cultures of...
January 10, 2018
#MeToo Pioneer Tarana Burke Joins Historic Panel on Equality and Harassment at WorkHuman 2018
More than a decade ago, Tarana Burke was working with young women of color affected by sexual abuse. Left speechless by hearing these young girls’ experiences — and not finding many ways to help — she created Just Be Inc., a nonprofit organization that helps victims of sexual harassment and assault. She made a commitment to help those affected. The movement’s slogan was Me Too.
Now, after actress Alyssa Milano encouraged women to post #MeToo on social media if they experienced harassment, Ta...
January 9, 2018
Calling All Students: 4th Annual WorkHuman Fellowship Essay Contest
Do you know an undergraduate or graduate student with a passion for building a more inclusive, human workplace? Are you a student who would love to learn from thought leaders like Amal Clooney, Ashley Judd, Brené Brown, and Simon Sinek at WorkHuman 2018?
We are thrilled to announce the fourth annual WorkHuman Fellowship Essay Contest. Two essay writers from North American universities will be chosen as our WorkHuman Fellows, and flown to WorkHuman 2018 in Austin, Texas, to help us live-blog t...
January 5, 2018
We’re Bringing Happy Back: Shawn Achor Joins WorkHuman 2018
Having worked with a diverse set of clients — from the NBA and NFL to the Pentagon, White House, and more than a third of the Fortune 100 companies — Shawn Achor is one of the world’s leading experts on happiness. His company, GoodThink Inc., aims to bridge the gap between academic research and the real world, delivering an instructive, inspirational, and evidence-based training on the science of happiness. In fact, GoodThink’s Happiness Advantage training is one of the largest and most succ...
January 3, 2018
Why WorkHuman is Talking About #MeToo
This Christmas, I learned that my aunt went on a date with Harvey Weinstein.
It was back in the 1970s. Weinstein was a student at State University of New York at Buffalo, and my aunt was a bank teller at a local branch. The whole thing was unremarkable, and she never gave it another thought until Ashley Judd spoke about her experiences with Weinstein in The New York Times.
When I heard my aunt’s story, my jaw dropped. The crazy revelation started a family discussion about the #MeToo moveme...
December 29, 2017
Report: Employees Crave a Sense of Belonging at Work
The holidays are a time when employees might think about leaving their company – CEB found career satisfaction drops 2% and job searches increase by 16% after a major gathering of friends and classmates. According to Gallup’s State of the American Workplace report, 51% of workers are actively searching for new jobs right now.
In the modern, changing workplace, the question remains: How can we maintain employee retention?
As organizations become places of shared community, workers are craving...
December 27, 2017
Top 17 Blog Posts of 2017
2017 has been a rollercoaster, to say the least.
As we look ahead to 2018, Globoforce is excited to continue important conversations and lead organizations through better employee recognition and engagement programs. We hope our historic panel at WorkHuman 2018 on equality and harassment in the workplace will inspire change and continued improvement toward a more human workplace for all.
But before we ring in the New Year and welcome a fresh start, we wanted to take a moment to highlight the...
December 21, 2017
Understanding Leadership through Biology: Interview with Dr. David Rock
For Dr. David Rock, improving employee performance comes down to basic biology.
David is the Director of the NeuroLeadership Institute, a global initiative that brings neuroscientists and leadership experts together to build a new science for leadership development. The Institute has operations in 24 countries and helps large organizations develop better leaders and managers by operationalizing brain research.
Globoforce Managing Editor Sarah Payne wrote about attending David’s NeuroLeadershi...
