What Are Small Business Owners Doing to Find and Retain Excellent Employees in 2014
Bank of America has been busy taking the pulse of small business owners in larger communities to determine what work life will be like in 2014. Following on the heels of their fall 2013 study, I am making the projection that employee training and development will increase in 2014 in the small business marketplace. So, […]
How Improving Values At Work Improves Values At Home
I believe values and team development principles such as trust, interdependence, genuineness, empathy, risk and success (TIGERS®) build strong teams and leaders. This is especially true when behaviors that support these business values are readily seen in the workplace. We know when this happens, employee home life is also impacted in a favorable way. It […]
A Healthy Team Is A Productive One
The Hartford, on September 25, released its third in a series of four reports this year providing insights on various trends in the workplace. Best-selling author and marketing consultant Lindsey Pollak shares her expertise on the Millennial generation and what both employees and employers can anticipate going forward. The first two reports, published in April […]
What Really Leads to Happiness in the Workplace?
Do leaders have to give away the boat in order to receive high marks from employees when it comes to happiness in the workplace? The answer is no. Researchers at Cangrade just completed a study of 584 employed Americans and discovered that Intellectual Stimulation is the number one predictor of Happiness and Job Satisfaction in […]
Creating and Sustaining Employee “Fidelity” in the Workplace
Employee infidelity. It can be the demise of today’s businesses. But just what does it mean when employees are unfaithful to an organization? It means that a once solid relationship between employee and employer is now broken and the employee has moved on to a competitor willing to “woo” and nurture their expertise and talents. […]
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 […]
What Do the TIGERS® 6 Principles Mean for Work Culture?
The TIGERS® 6 Principles offer a cooperation-based work model founded on six collaborative principles found in every high performance organization. These principles are trust, interdependence, genuineness, empathy, risk and success. They are measurable within a team and they predict both high team function and problems. The TIGERS 6 Principles — trust, interdependence, genuineness, empathy, risk […]
Have Good Intentions Killed Employee Values and Work Ethics?
Copyright TIGERS Success Series By Dianne Crampton Leaders strategize, make action plans, define goals, identify core values and tie behaviors to ethics with the best intentions for their organizations. Happens every day and in every company…right? But, what if these companies don’t revisit and re-evaluate policies set in stone from time to time? Or worse, […]
Attracting the Right Team Players for a Successful Business Team Culture
What are the top 10% looking for when they are recruited onto existing teams? The place to start is building a team culture you know will be successful and produces high levels of satisfaction for employees. Trust: Studies clearly indicate that for team players, trust is far more important in building strong teams—teams that deliver […]
Are Your Team Members Building Bonds or Building Resentments?
Team collaboration depends on the values that drive its culture. In a success-driven age, studies have demonstrated that a company that builds its teams on a strong set of ethical values is the one that will succeed. 1. Trust If employee morale is interfering with getting the work done, it’s probably because of trust issues which […]
