Employee EngagementWho holds the keys to a productive employer-employee relationship? At the most successful, healthy businesses, it’s a shared investment. Stakeholder capitalism can benefit employers and employees alike.
To become a great leader you must take control over one major part of yourself: your ego. Keeping your ego in check is a lifelong pursuit. As Charles Duhigg explained in his book “The Power of Habit,” our bodies naturally want us to create habitual behaviors. Basically, our brains try to find the most efficient way…
Wilfred Hirst · 4 min read
Decrease turnover and improve employee performance by using these techniques to reward your employees.
Jackie Dube · 6 min read
When you’re hiring business development reps, you can’t afford to get it wrong. Your sales development representatives are the first people your prospective clients talk to. This makes them very important to your company. You have to hire BDRs who can make a fantastic first impression, do effective lead qualifying, and book meetings to drive…
Erin Balsa · 10 min read
Stress in the workplace is common. According to the American Institute of Stress, 80 percent of workers experience on-the-job stress. What’s more, 40 percent of employees said their job is “very” or “extremely” stressful. As a manager, you want your people to be happy and engaged—not tense and checked out. You’ll be glad to know…
Erin Balsa · 5 min read
Think about the worst meeting you ever attended. Maybe one person monopolized the conversation and spoke ad nauseum about a topic that wasn’t important to everyone else. Perhaps the meeting started 10 minutes late because the previous group ran over their time slot. Or your facilitator struggled, in vain, to get the conferencing software to launch. Whatever…
Erin Balsa · 6 min read
Employee engagement is essential to a productive, innovative workplace. Studies have shown that engaged employees are happier, healthier, more focused, and more loyal. In addition to being happy at work, engaged employees are dedicated to making the company better. Yet, worker engagement rates are dismally low: only one-third of U.S. employees are engaged according to Gallup…
Erin Balsa · 5 min read
If you don’t yet have access to an employee experience survey, read on to discover four reasons why good employees leave bad managers.
Erin Balsa · 5 min read
We recently released the results of a study of 5,000+ employees about their perspectives on their managers. From it, we gleaned some amazing findings, all of which can be found in our People Management Study report. I had the chance to have a conversation with Craig Weber, author of Conversational Capacity, to talk about our…
Thad Peterson · 1 min read
Feedback is a little like management oxygen – we tend not to think much about it and take it for granted but when it’s absent we quickly encounter problems. We know feedback is an important element of management, and I’ve written about it on occasion, but I can’t say I’d seen a lot of insightful…
Victor Lipman · 4 min read
“The most important person you’ll hire is the first person. That way everybody after will have to meet that same high standard.” – Larry O’Toole, founder of Gentle Giant This was just one of several insights the founder of Gentle Giant, Larry O’Toole, shared when he sat down for a candid interview with our Sr….
Wilfred Hirst · 1 min read
It’s your job as a manager to make sure your employees are engaged. But what happens if you, the manager, is the sole reason your employees are disengaged? Can someone actually reach their top performance if their manager is constantly weighing them down? I know someone who recently left their job solely because of their…
Marissa Mias · 3 min read
The idea for this study was hatched in April when I was out there poking around the interwebs, trying to dig up some hard data about what traits are found in great managers (and terrible managers, for that matter). What I quickly found was there is an abundance of self-proclaimed management experts who opine about…
Thad Peterson · 4 min read
No matter how you slice it, being the new person at any organization requires you to take a big step into unfamiliar territory. Two months ago, I joined The Predictive Index (PI) as the client marketing manager after working in account management at the same advertising agency for three years. And when I arrived on…
Dani Dawkins · 5 min read
Almost all issues in the workplace are people issues. Master your understanding of those, and you’ll have a much easier time in your career.
Matt Poepsel, PhD · 16 min read