Change Strategies Employees Will Champion Successfully
Many employees are hesitant when it comes to change. It is, however, required to be competitive in the ever-changing marketplace. This means keeping up with current trends and research. It also means solving company problems as a team and embracing new opportunities as they arise. Even though you, as a leader, may fully understand the […]
Struggling as a Leader? Change Your Leadership Habits
Whenever you start a new leadership endeavor, your ultimate goal is to be successful. But sometimes, something as simple as your daily leadership habits could sabotage your success causing you to struggle as a leader. We are creatures of habit, so we usually approach problems with solutions that worked for us in the past, but […]
Don’t Let Change Derail Your Employees’ Productivity
Change is inevitable. Frequently,workplace change initiatives are met with resistance, backlash and a refusal to adapt. During times of change, employee engagement and employee confidence in their organization can fall drastically, leading to lower retention and less quality work. In fact, according to research from more than 40 studies, only 33 percent of change initiatives […]
How to Change and Improve Behavior in the Workplace
Failing to monitor employee behavior is a slippery slope. Transgressions that are ignored tend to snow ball resulting in one bad apple spreading rot to others – or – cause good employees to seek work elsewhere. Employee behavior can make or break your organization’s success, so for something so essential, you want to ensure everyone […]
Guide Millennials with Leadership Team Building
As Millennials, also known as Gen Y employees (18-33 year olds), enter the workforce, leaders and organizations are forced to change their strategies to manage this new generation. According to The Hartford’s 2014 Millennial Leadership Survey, Millennials strive to become leaders within five years, and organizations can help them achieve this goal by utilizing leadership […]
How to Align and Adapt Culture During Change
Guest post by Emma Murphy During change there is often an element of culture change required to achieve the desired outcomes, for example you may need to embed new behaviours and ways of working in order to ensure the change is successful. In this article we will consider how to get started with planning your […]
Effective Teambuilding Yields Surprising Results in Today’s 21st Century Work Culture
In November we celebrated Labor Day — our tribute to the American workforce. Yet, this year our claims of fidelity to the ideal of hard work as a path to a good life were muted by harsh reality. Only 43.7% of working-age Americans are employed full-time according to the August Gallup P2P numbers. However, a handful […]
Transitioning from a Military Career to the Private Sector Requires Corporate Team Building and Training
According to a recent survey by Accenture, veterans transitioning out of the military and seeking civilian employment say it’s been a “mixed bag.” Although employed veterans say they are earning more now than when in the military, challenges still remain for those veterans who are unemployed – especially post 9/11 veterans. To ease the way […]
US Health Care Changes Meet News Collector Jenn X
Who can deny that change is tantalizing to a change agent and team development geek. For me, when change is punched up with some collaboration … life just gets better. So when a plucky out-of-work bartender-turned-entrepreneur by the name of Jenn X (LOVE that name!) cracks the code on the biggest change topic in US […]
Encourage Risk-Taking to Bolster Team Building Success
Risk is defined as a ‘situation involving exposure to danger or failure.’ So when you mention the word, risk, several emotions come to mind such as: Fear Failure Stress Anxiety But without the element of risk, there would be no new discoveries, innovation, or progress – especially in the world of business. Without risk, organizations […]
