Category: Human Resources
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The Collective Impact Approach
The Collective Impact Approach, while originally targeted within the social sector translates well into business and manufacturing. Especially if the entity is experiencing challenges with individual productivity and/or peer-to-peer accountability. This happens everywhere but can at times be more prevalent within a union culture. The basic tenets of the Collective Impact Approach (CIA) are as follows: […]
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Costs Control
Cost control breaks down to one singular element. Focus on the little things, as those are the things that can add up to large costs. This may be in the form of process and/or personnel. Let’s take a look at personnel. One daily hour of unproductive employee time across the company equals a huge loss. […]
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What Management Model Are You Using?
So often we take time to set goals, plan, develop missions, etc. However, we often overlook a major component. The ‘how’ of implementation. Regardless of the size of your business/organization, participative approaches to management are important to consider.Are you evaluating how each/your participative management approach(s) works? Do you annually or better yet quarterly consider its […]
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High Performance Culture
A high performance culture looks like what? If you aren’t sure, you may want to first create one for yourself before expecting an entire corporate or organizational culture to have it. If you aren’t sure if you have a high performance culture, most likely you don’t. You can find a million different models of it, […]
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13% Of Employees Worldwide Are Engaged
You’ve already done the math in your head that tells you 87% of employees worldwide are not engaged. For the stats you can visit http://www.gallup.com/poll/165269/worldwide-employees-engaged-work.aspx . We can talk until we are blue in the face about why this dynamic exists. But I strongly believe it is rooted in a few basic ‘truths’. One, change is […]
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I’ve been training some folks lately and it is always a great reminder when training someone new and sensing their apprehension that we all need to continuously check ourselves to make sure we continue to march forward with our amazing lives and not shrink back when we feel unsure. Often a training situation leaves trainees […]
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Because No One Is Perfect
You are not perfect, but you are in good company as no one is. Trying to project perfection in an imperfect world is a fool’s errand. It will exhaust you and confuse others. People benefit from being able to relate and/or learn from your challenges. You make yourself more accessible to others empowering their growth […]
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So Who Isn’t Looking For A New Job?
So who isn’t looking for a new job? Apparently not many. If you are passionate about your job count yourself among the few. Over 75% of folks are looking for a job to jump to. I can’t imagine what that translates to when it comes to loss of productivity and dollars for both the employee […]
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The Uncomfortable Reality Of Knowing Someone Needs To Go
If on average 75% of employees are looking for a new job the reality is you are paying a lot of people who aren’t committed long-term to the company. It is an unfortunate reality that no one likes to talk about. People aren’t usually crazy about change so while they prefer to be elsewhere, there […]
Strategic Alignment For Individuals & Organizations 