By Brent D. Peterson and Gaylan W. Nielson Many factors help create fake-work cultures. Many corporate processes, like decision making, change management, … Read more
Eleven Mismanagement Issues That Lead to Fake Work
By Brent D. Peterson and Gaylan W. Nielson Managers live in a difficult place: They are often caught between their bosses and their work teams, so they … Read more
Five Reasons Your CEO Doesn’t Care About Employee Engagement
I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve heard about employee engagement at various webinars, lunches, and conferences. We talk about ways to … Read more
From the Energy Files: A Little Bit of Direction Goes a Long Way
This edition of “From the Energy Files” comes from data we have been collecting in the Leadership Pulse™ project. Since 2003, we have been sending short … Read more
Survey: 70% of Businesses Don’t Have a Strategy for Developing Women
Does your organization focus on women when they talk about having a more diverse workforce? Some do, of course, but the vast majority of businesses — … Read more
From the Energy Files: The Power of Optimization vs. Maximization
In most employee survey work, we work with scales, questions and indices that focus on maximization as the goal. Employee satisfaction or engagement, for … Read more
Are You Communicating With Your VIPs? (Very Important Personnel)
While reading TLNT the other day, I came across the following on Editor John Hollon’s blog: A new survey by WorldatWork has found that only a small … Read more
Why Good Strategies Fail: How Much Do Your Employees Really Care?
There are many reasons that good strategies fail. They range from poor communication, lack of alignment, difficulty with change, underestimating resources … Read more
How to Build Effective Frontline Managers
By David Creelman and Steven Hunt, PhD and SPHR It’s often said that employees don’t quit companies, they quit managers. Although there’s often a lot of … Read more
The Gap Logo Debacle: There Are Lessons Here – Especially for HR
I looked on in amusement this past week when the Gap released their new logo to anticipated fanfare. All of their design team knew they had a winner. Gap … Read more