First Question: Yes—Engaged employees mean greater success: 1. Engaged employees deliver a higher return on any payroll investment: Organizations with higher ratios of engaged workers to disengaged workers are significantly more profitable than their competitors (Gallup’s 2013 Report on the State of the American Workforce). 2. Engaged employees mean accomplishments…
Be a Better CIO: The Human Side of Organizational Change
CIOs manage change all day, every day – updates, priorities, technologies. What sets CIO’s apart, however, is the ability to manage the human side of organizational change. With this skill CIO’s obtain more support, get more done, and are more likely to be valued as a strategic asset. The human…
Strategic Planning needs Org. Change ‘Push’
Picture: a swimmer as they reach the end of the pool. They flip, push off the wall, and in a moment they are moving powerfully in a new direction. Your organization’s strategic planning review should be like a swimmer’s turn – crisp, powerful – situation understood, activities redefined, accountabilities altered,…
Incentives – Proceed with Caution
Pay-for-performance approaches, once exclusively the domain of sales departments, are becoming more widespread. The intent is to give employees a stake in the company’s success, with the hope of improving individual performance. These incentive systems can be effective but they can also produce the opposite effect. Naive organizations see these systems as…
High ROI Change Management
Change management is critical to achieving expected results and engaging talented professionals in any enterprise-level initiative. When delivered with excellence, change management services provide an unparalleled return on investment both in terms of increased performance and enhanced respect for management. What is Change Management? It is normally a consulting-style intervention…
Organizational Culture 101
Every organization has one. Without conscious thought, organizations informally build up over time a pattern defining its typical or preferred operating state. No two organizations are the same – even divisions within a larger organization have distinct cultural elements. Like the grain within a piece of wood – culture gives…