Empowerment: How Do You Create an Empowerment Culture?
My coworkers say that they’ve “got my back.”
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Empowerment: What is Empowerment?
It is sometimes difficult to keep up with the trendy terms, the technical jargon, and the buzzwords. Here’s a new one: empowerment. Sounds like a fancy word for “someone dumping their work on me”.
What I have found is if you ask five different people that question, […]
Hiring the Best People: What About Rewards and Recognition?
Many organizations believe a paperweight or a plaque is a rewards and recognition program. However, some rewards aren’t very rewarding. And some recognition activities aren’t very motivating. Keep in mind that every recognition action can have a value in reinforcing positive job performance.
Hiring the Best People: What About Employee Retention?
Some organizations suffer from high turnover. It’s like a revolving door. The organization doesn’t seem to be hiring the right people, for the right reasons, to do the right jobs, and employee retention is difficult.
The most critical step is hiring the right person in the first place. Nothing worse than hiring the wrong […]
Hiring the Best People: What About Better Training?
The first few days or weeks at a new job can leave a person feeling alone, uncertain, and worthless. When it comes to hiring the best people and keeping them, think about better training for the first couple of months, and people will feel valued, included, and special right away.
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