Interdependence Improves Work Culture Success
How does interdependence improve work culture? Your work culture plays a crucial role in employee satisfaction and retention. Retention of top talent is a sign your work culture is healthy. It is also one of the main focuses for HR executives and leaders alike. So if department silos, leaders, and executives hold their cards close […]
Open Communication Builds Genuineness
You’ve heard it before. Open communication is one of the main conditions for a high performance workplace culture. Open communication builds Genuineness, the third of the six TIGERS® principles required for a high performance work groups. The other five TIGERS principles are trust, interdependence, empathy, risk resolution and success. If you aren’t embracing a culture […]
Creating a Workplace Culture of Engaged Workers
You know that employee engagement is important, but do you know how your corporate culture affects engagement? Your company’s culture has a direct influence on how engaged your employees are, and if your culture suffers, so does engagement levels. According to Gallup research, your employees will be most engaged when they are treated as stakeholders […]
Team Building And Hiring Strategies To Attract And Retain Talent
I was speaking at a SHRM gathering a few months ago and a Human Resource Manager from a call service company shared that retaining talented people was a problem in his company. In spite of the training given to new hires, it was rare for a new employee to stay with the company over two […]
How To Create a Persevering Team
Perseverance is a necessary for high functioning team dynamics. It is also an attribute that all businesses must possess to withstand shifting business climates. But businesses cannot persevere without their team members possessing perseverance, too. By implementing strategic team building strategies that enhance perseverance, leaders can promote a healthy culture and create a persevering team. […]
Leadership Team Building that Promotes a Collaborative Work Culture
A supportive and collaborative work culture is one important criteria that determines whether a company will succeed through up and down economic climates or not. Employee morale and productivity are affected by the company’s culture, which affects employee turnover rates that can cost companies unnecessary amounts of money. Culture also determines appropriate values fit for […]
Engaging Fiscally Conservative Millennials Requires Strategic Corporate Team Building
Lazy? Over-indulged? Spend thrifty? Hardly! A recent quarterly UBS Investor Watch report reveals that Millennials (individuals between the ages of 21-36) are surprisingly the most financially conservative generation since the Great Depression era. This is probably good to know for your corporate team building strategies. The report also reveals that this group of enterprising individuals […]
The Business Case for Trust
Guest post by Barbara Brooks Kimmel The headlines “say it all” so why do business executives continue to demand a business case for trust? The Hard Costs of Low Trust Gallup’s research (2011) places 71% percent of U.S. workers as either not engaged or actively disengaged. The price tag of disengagement (Gallup) is $350 billion […]
Leadership and Team Building: Satisfy Short-Term Quarterly Goals or Plan for Long-term Sustainability?
The need for instant gratification and to show a profit no matter the cost to employees, society, or an organization’s welfare seems to be the motto in today’s business culture. Yet there are those few stellar organizations…and they are not all Fortune 500’s….that beg to differ. These companies invest in team building ideas that value […]
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 […]
