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August 22, 2017
How to Get 100% Participation and a Committed Team
Listen to our interview with Chuck Blakeman in the latest episode of WorkHuman Radio, embedded at the top of this post.
The workplace is hopelessly broken, and we’re rearranging the deck chairs on the sinking ship. For 100 years Gallup, Harris, and others have told us that 70 percent of our staff is phoning it in. Another 51 percent are actively – right now – submitting resumes to get out, and a whopping 86 percent would leave today if something else fell in their lap.
The usual response? “W...
August 17, 2017
5 Essentials to Humanize Manager Onboarding
Listen to our interview with Sharlyn Lauby in the latest episode of WorkHuman Radio embedded at the top of this post.
One of the biggest mistakes organizations make is hiring or promoting the most technically competent person without giving them the tools to be successful. It’s true that managers need to have technical skills. Employees want to know that their manager understands the work they do. But managers also need the skills to lead a group of diverse individuals.
Most companies have ne...
August 10, 2017
Is Culture Fit a Myth?
Listen to our WorkHuman Radio interview with Robin Schooling and Bill Boorman, embedded at the top of this post.
The importance of aligning hiring to organizational culture is endlessly discussed, debated, and analyzed. Everyone from researchers to C-suite leaders to HR professionals has an opinion on how to achieve this seemingly elusive nirvana. We constantly ask ourselves, “What’s the best way to ensure the individuals we’re hiring are a ‘fit’ with our culture?”
Most of us have a clear de...
August 2, 2017
The Recognition Science Denier
Listen to our WorkHuman Radio interview with Chris French embedded at the top of this post.
Six months ago I sat in a conference room in Dublin, Ireland with the CHRO of a successful Fortune 500 company. She started our meeting by saying, “Of course, I know what recognition is. It’s a soft, feel-good program that employees seem to like and a necessary expense today. I’m worried we’re spending too much on it.”
She was a “Recognition Science Denier.” But by the end of the meeting, our conversa...
July 28, 2017
5 Traits of a Mindful Leader
Listen to the latest episode of WorkHuman Radio with Pandit Dasa, embedded at the top of this post.
Aspiring to become a mindful leader starts by asking yourself a set of somewhat uncomfortable and confronting questions.
What is my motivation for leading? Am I in leadership because I enjoy power, control, and fame? Am I leading to serve or am I leading to be served? Am I willing to put the interests of the organization ahead of my own?Mindful leadership means being able to take an honest...
July 21, 2017
Say Goodbye to the Annual Bonus
Everyone in the world of HR is talking about the end of annual performance reviews. The chatter is focused on how to promote a coaching culture throughout the year to continuously improve employee performance.
Few people, however, are offering a real solution to the compensation piece of the annual review. Traditionally, employees had their review with their manager and received a rating based on their performance over the past year. And then at some point around the same time, they would rec...
July 20, 2017
Pay Attention to Originality
Adam Grant & Greg Stevens at WorkHuman 2017
Listen to the latest episode of WorkHuman Radio with Adam Grant and Greg Stevens, embedded at the top of this post.
People can learn to increase their originality, developing creative ideas to improve the world around them and seeing those ideas through to reality. That’s the idea at the center of Adam Grant’s book, “Originals.”
It’s also an idea that reinforces one of the key pillars of the WorkHuman movement – the value created when employees brin...
July 18, 2017
Answers to Your Top 5 Recognition Questions
As a follow-up to WorkHuman 2017, we hosted a webinar a few weeks ago around 5 Tips for Launching a Social Recognition Program. Derek Irvine, vice president, client strategy and consulting, and Lynette Silva, senior recognition strategist, led the discussion, which generated a ton of great questions from listeners.
Lynette graciously offered to answer five of those questions below on budgeting for recognition, the science of turnover, “non-wired” workers, and setting up your program for long...
July 11, 2017
Stuck with a Bad Leader? Success is Still in Your Control
Listen to our WorkHuman Radio interview with Cy Wakeman in the podcast embedded at the top of this post.
What surprised me most when I was promoted to a leadership position was how conventional HR practices are rarely based in psychology, especially since these practices affect something all employees have in common – the human condition. Instead of calling people up to greatness, I quickly observed that conventional HR leadership practices caused more drama and fueled entitlement.
Moving fr...
July 10, 2017
WorkHuman 2018 Call for Speakers
Since Globoforce launched the first WorkHuman conference back in 2015, the movement has grown immensely – five times in size, to be exact. And WorkHuman 2017 was one for the books – with speakers including Michelle Obama, Susan Cain, Adam Grant, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Chaz Bono.
Now we’re looking for researchers, storytellers, business leaders, and industry experts to join us as breakout session speakers at WorkHuman 2018 in Austin, Texas, April 3-5. WorkHuman speakers will share expertise...
