Corporate Team Building Efforts Damaged by Unfair Pay Practices
Have you ever heard a conversation of this nature around the company “water cooler?” “Guess what I just found out.” “What?” “I’m getting paid less than Joe in my department and I’m doing the same job!” “So what are you going to do?” “Start looking for another job.” Monster.com, the premier global online employment solution […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
What Fuels Entrepreneur Passions? New Study By American Express Open
What fuels entrepreneur passion? American Express Open took up the banner to answer this question and looked at the attitudes and differences between the Millennial Generation (Gen Y ages 24-35) and the Baby Boomers (ages 48-70). Clearly, the Great Recession has made a deep impression on both Millennials who found it difficult to find work […]
How to Recruit an Elite Team of Employees When You Are a Start-up Company
Entrepreneurs who create their team of people to launch a company are in the position to create the soul of the company from the start. Recruiting your initial team of employees and leaders sets the stage for determining workplace values and whether the work environment will be cooperative or competitive in nature. Get one thing right Recruiting […]
How To Turn A Embarrasing Business Purchase Into An Opportunity
I will never forget the time when my husband and I met at the home of a high end business coach whose program we had enrolled in. He handed us a piece of paper and said, ” You need a brochure, a website, a product (book), and a speech. ” Then he said with pride, “This is your marketing […]
Honesty, Integrity, Accountability… Where Are These Values?
Many United States citizens believe that along with a deep recession there is a leadership crisis. Honesty is delivered with spin. Ethics are situational. With elections right around the corner, leaders everywhere are likely wondering what they can do to gain constituent support. According to a recent survey titled “Leading the Way: The 2012 Leadership and […]
Business Worries Keep 58 Percent of Decision-makers Awake at Night
Small business decision-makers from across the country reported an unchanged opinion about the U.S. economy. They reported, however, a slight increase in optimism about their own prospects for revenue growth in 2012 compared to 2011 according to a recent Small Business Opinion Poll. The poll conducted by ORC International was commissioned by EMPLOYERS®. The poll revealed that 44 percent […]
How to Build Trust That Drives Business Results
How do you build trust to drive business results? The answer is with leadership transparency, will, collaboration and success. In the 2012 TIGERS Success Series survey, we asked over 2300 HR representatives in 101 countries what the biggest team hurdels they face is. Trust came up consistently as an issue. Another leadership development company has […]
