There’s a lot of talk about how “management” plays a key role in fostering employee engagement but they’re not the only ones who can kill employees’ morale. Oh, no, colleagues can do a mighty fine job with that as well. Kevin Kruse, author of Employee Engagement for Everyone calls the road-weary co-workers the “Downers” (referring…
Forced Distribution Performance Appraisals Suck the Life Out of Leadership
Do you work at a company that uses a “forced distribution” method for performance appraisals? How’s that working out for you? I worked for a company that used this method, which was brought into mainstream corporate America by former GE CEO Jack Welch. The concept is this: over the broad spectrum of the employee base,…
Advice for New Leaders – 32 Ways to Start Strong
What’s the best advice you ever received upon assuming a new leadership role? What, nobody gave you any advice?! Well, then, I have a great resource for you. Dan McCarthy, author of the award-winning blog Great Leadership is changing up his monthly leadership development blog carnival this month. He asked for leadership bloggers to submit…
Great Leaders Aren’t Afraid to Lose Their Talent
Is your organization doing a good job of developing its leadership pipeline? Leadership-development opportunities start with entry-level supervision roles, and a recent study suggests that most companies are shortsighted in their development strategies. According to study sponsors DDI, HR.com and the Institute, only 18% of companies surveyed said they had a strong bench of frontline…
Who Owns Employee Engagement?
This is a multi-part series on employee engagement based on my interview with New York Times best-selling author Kevin Kruse. As a former business owner and winner of a “Best Place to Work” award, Kevin has a wealth of real-life experience. I’m very grateful for the wisdom he is sharing with The People Equation readers….