It’s always great when I can share research that makes it clear how important you are to your company’s success. I wish more of you would: A) … Read more
How Your Work Culture Can Get You Through the Sands Dunes of Life
“You are here,” the mat reads. You look down, mouth agape, and you think, “So where the hell is here?” You’re standing atop a great sand dune among a … Read more
?A Goal-Centric View Of Employee Engagement: How and Why It Works
?Every executive team senses the need keep their employees engaged in the workplace, but have they really thought through the cost of unengaged talent? … Read more
The True Cost of Bad Managers – and Why You Need Really Great Ones
When bad managers are allowed to run free, everyone suffers. Employees suffer — Employees feel unsupported, undirected, bullied, confused, … Read more
What Makes Employees Happy and Productive? It’s Really Pretty Basic
It seems as though we are consistently seeing data that show decreasing levels of employee engagement and feelings of fulfillment at work. This data can … Read more
In the Age of Big Data, It’s Good Data That Makes the Business Sing
Data, specifically good data, drives successful companies. I call out the obvious with “good data” because a great deal of superfluous and even bad data … Read more
5 Ways to Save High Performers from the Sophomore Slump
Sophomore Slump [sof-uh-mawr sluhmp] noun The rut an employee hits the second year of their career after being a top performer in Year One. This happens … Read more
What Is Employee Engagement? Here’s How It’s a Lot Like Marriage
Editor’s Note: Sometimes readers ask about past TLNT articles. That’s why we republish a Classic TLNT post every Friday. What’s the No. 1 most helpful (or … Read more
Hiring Wisdom: The Winning Combination For a Top-Notch Workforce
The following is my response to an item on Retail Wire concerning the fact that The GAP has announced they are going to raise the starting wage of … Read more
Living the Brand: Infusing Employees With a Greater Purpose
This is from China Gorman: I love Southwest! ?#?SWA?. The pilot of our flight to Orlando just approached them sitting next to me with two extreme special … Read more