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…
Corporate Culture
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…
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…
Ideas for Creating Positive Workplace Morale
What companies are “doing” workplace morale right? That’s the question up for discussion via a series on workplace morale, which is running on both the Switch and Shift blog and SmartBlog on Leadership. In the spirit of promoting what tactics work for organizations, this series highlights the ideas and companies that are creating positive morale and thereby…
How to Foster a Coaching Culture in Your Company
Does your organization foster a culture of coaching? If not, it could be lagging in market performance, according to the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp). Research from their report Creating a Coaching Culture indicates that companies with a strong organizational focus on coaching outperform their industry competitors. There are additional benefits as well. According to…