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…
Employee Engagement. It’s all the rage. Why? Let’s start with the cold hard fact that 13 percent of global workers are engaged, according to Gallup. Basically, this means that the vast majority of people in the world are going to work, sleepwalking though their day, giving companies little to no discretionary effort, and doing what they have to…
When I began contemplating workplace confidence, I started to think about the confident people I work with and how they deal with both mundane and tough decisions. What was the fundamental trait they all exhibited on a daily basis, especially in times of stress and pressure? Ownership. Confident leaders and employees habitually own everything they…
The Predictive Index (PI) CEO Mike Zani chatted with Bankers Financial Corporation’s Learning and Development Specialist Max Redd on retention, engagement, employee development, and how Bankers successfully approaches these hot human-capital topics. Take a listen or read the full transcription of the interview below. Mike Zani: Hi I’m Mike Zani. I’m the CEO of The Predictive Index….
As a bit of a business geek, I read a lot of books about management, business trends, and company culture. And there’s a term that I’ve noticed slip into our people management vernacular over the past 3-4 years: “Bringing your whole self to work.” It’s kind of catchy.
I knew about “management by objectives.” Then I learned about “management by biscuits.” You can learn about management in the unlikeliest places. In this case, it was from Hamish, my out-of-control West Highland Terrier.
We hear a lot in the business world about over-management, specifically the well-documented and demoralizing tendency toward micromanagement. In fact, a 2014 accounttemps survey found that 68% of people who felt micromanaged found it demoralizing. But we hear relatively little about under-management. Yet this quality—this tendency to (often subtly) avoid one’s managerial responsibilities definitely plays…
Community Family Guidance Center (CFGC) is a non-profit children’s mental health agency with about 65 employees. Most of its employees are therapists and case managers and administrators. Joan Smock is their director of human resources. The Predictive Index (PI) did a question and answer with Joan to learn more about how they use PI at the…
Have you ever had the feeling one of your colleagues just didn’t like you? You might have thought, “That person just doesn’t understand me. If they truly took the time to get to know me, I think they would like me.”
Communication is the oil that keeps the engine of your organization running smoothly, and it all starts with management. “I never met a good manager who wasn’t also a good communicator.” Today, more than two decades later, I still remember the conversation well. I was discussing “what makes an effective manager” with one of our company’s…
In order for employee objective-setting to work, it needs to be approached as more than a frustrating bureaucratic exercise.
Employees everywhere want to improve and get ahead, so why aren’t you providing employee development opportunities?
