TIGERS® Blog
How to Make Your Mid-Career Employees Stay Despite the Great Resignation
A post-pandemic buzzword being thrown around is “The Great Resignation”. Also known as the “Big Quit” or the “Great Reshuffle” or the “Big Switcheroo”, it began in early 2021 and is described as an ongoing economic trend in which resigning mid-career employees quit...
What Is Performance Enablement?
In the face of the "Big Switch", which management practice retains talented Millennial and Gen Z employees the best: Performance management or performance enablement? Is this just the new buzz or something to pay attention to? Those of are a certain age will wax...
How Do Employees Benefit By Handling Toxic and Narcissistic Bosses?
I would like to tell you that an individual employee does benefit by handling toxic and narcissistic bosses. I can't, though. I would be lying to you. Perhaps it is possible - maybe even preferable - as you look for a new job. In the long-term, however, no. To handle...
Leading with empathy in the hybrid workplace
Leading with empathy in the hybrid workplace dispels many practices that drove the industrial revolution. For example, the old saying, “It’ business, not personal”, means that financials were more important than anything human. The problem is that for employees it is...
Avoid These Eight Common Leadership Mistakes
Being a leader is one of the best things of one’s life. It makes you feel like you can do almost anything, and people look up to you for advice and assurance. However, not everyone is a natural-born leader. Plus, even the best leaders can make leadership mistakes...
What will it take to ensure Gen Z loyalty?
‘Hey, you’re a beast! ” Wow. I’m a beast so is that a good thing? According to a fifteen year old boy, the answer is yes. Being a beast means very good; impressive; awesome. Therefore, if you receive this compliment and are the manager of a Gen Z employee, you are...
The TIGERS 6 Principles Deliver Psychological Safety to High Performance Teams
High performance, cross-functional teams composed of employees from different departments have driven successful innovation and corporate problem-solving outcomes for organizations such as Zappos, Costco and Hewlett Packard. As diverse as these organization are, one...
The Great Resignation Root Cause
I quit. I resign. I'm leaving. No one likes to here these words. However, the latest figures came out on Jan. 4, 2022, and showed that 4.5 million people voluntarily left their positions in November 2021 for greener pastures elsewhere. The numbers keep coming...
How to connect employees with a sense of purpose
So much is written about connecting an organization’s purpose with employee values. Has this stemmed the massive exodus of employees leaving for better pay, a better work culture or better mental health due to pandemic burnout? No. Resignations are still on the...
Surviving 2022 with a hybrid work environment
This time of the year people start thinking about their new year’s resolutions. Perhaps some of those resolutions involve surviving next year in a hybrid work environment. I get it. 2020 and 2021 have been horrible for some managers. Some tech organizations, on the...
