How Poor Leadership Behavior Impacts Work Culture
How does poor leadership behavior impact your work culture? Employee engagement, goal achievement, productivity, civility, workplace bullying and your bottom line are all impacted by poor leadership behavior. That said, changing poor leadership behavior is possible when executives measure change in department attitude and performance. The problem is that a few employees will copy poor […]
Team Building Activities Reduce Workplace Incivility
Tempers flare when a weekly sales quota doesn’t get met…. An employee is told to comprise their standards – maybe fudge some numbers or overlook a quality control issue….. A manager takes credit for an employee’s hard work… All instances of workplace incivility? Absolutely! According to the eighth National Business Ethics Survey (NBES), 41 percent […]
Reduce Workplace Conflict to Improve Productivity
Experienced educators often advise first year teachers not to crack a smile until after Christmas vacation. Obviously, the intent is to give students the impression that these teachers are tough, strong disciplinarians as opposed to being nice which could be interpreted as being a pushover. The extent to which this advice works varies widely depending […]
People You Work With May be Retaliating Against Something You Don’t Even Realize You Did
Guest Perspective: Tony Lacertosa, Peerless Leadership Development. Do you know what you’re saying and doing? I’m asking, not to question your abilities, but to remind you that our words and actions may be perceived by others differently than how they were intended. In my experience, I’ve observed that most leaders strive to build good […]
Today’s Workplace Dynamic: A Culture of Bullies
Hitting the snooze button too many times because you dread getting up and going into work? Is it just another day filled with undue stress and turmoil? The kind of day that makes you want to tell the boss, “take this job and…. “ well, you know. For many, this is an everyday occurrence. These […]
Has Civility Left The Building in Many Workplace Cultures?
Earlier this year, I conducted a survey of over 2800 HR professionals worldwide. I polled these business professionals to see what organizational values would emerge as top priorities to improve workplace relationships between employees and managers. The results of the TIGERS survey ‘Trust and Communication’ seem to have good timing as there have been several […]
Civility in the Workplace Can Be Linked to Employee Absenteeism
Here’s an interesting statistic for HR Executives and Leadership Teams. Employee absenteeism costs an estimated $225.8 billion a year in lost productivity in the United States. This is a faily hefty chunk of change. So what prompts an employee to “call in sick?” Are they really sick? When a co-worker uses the expression, “I need a […]
