Think you can’t have fun, throw money at employees (literally!) and grow the company’s revenues by 25% all at the same time? It’s possible and the examples below prove it. Meet Bob Richards, a seasoned manufacturing executive who has tried what skeptics would call “outlandish” tactics to create a workplace environment in which employees are…
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Retain Your Top Talent with These 4 Stay Interview Tips
As a leader, you know it the minute your most talented employee walks into your office — she is going to resign. You chastise yourself: why didn’t I see it coming? If you are honest with yourself, you know that in some way, you did see it coming. You just didn’t take the time to…
Build Employee Engagement through These 8 Daily Actions
How does a leader motivate and engage his staff? As a manager, there are hundreds of opportunities each day to create a workplace that fosters employee creativity, engagement and productivity. When I interviewed Bob Richards, a director-level leader for a Fortune 500 organization about creating positive workplace morale, I got a bonus: a list from…
30 Articles on Navigating Change
This month’s Frontline Festival from Karin Hurt’s blog Let’s Grow Leaders focuses on change. Not surprisingly, Karin had a record number of submissions for this topic. The phrase “how to deal with change” is a frequent keyword search for this blog. People are highly curious about how to deal with transitions and navigate changing situations….
How to Get Workplace Morale Right
There’s plenty of media coverage about what organizations are doing wrong when it comes to workplace morale. Where are the stories of leaders and organizations who know how to get workplace morale and employee engagement right? All this week, a group of editors, writers and leadership thinkers chose to focus on what is working, rather than…