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2016 Related Topics
What’s Ahead for HR in 2017?
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OCTOBER 19, 2016
By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! Trends in HR for the year ahead will emphasize empowerment, the employee experience, and ultimately a more human workplace. What will some of the big themes be for HR leaders in the year ahead and how can we begin preparing for them? For some answers, I attended a session at HR Tech based on Josh Bersin’s new report, HR Technology Disruptions for 2017.
Off to HR Tech 2016!
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OCTOBER 3, 2016
By Derek Irvine. I’m packing my bags and heading to Chicago for the 19 th Annual HR Technology Conference and Expo. It’s a fantastic show for seeing what the future of HR holds and what the leaders of the field are thinking about today. always come back to the office with a ton of energy and ideas. hope to see you there!
Be the Colleague People Want to Work With
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JUNE 26, 2016
by Lynette Silva. BIG , Robert Loggia, Tom Hanks, 1988. TM and Copyright (c) 20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved. Courtesy: Everett Collection. Recognize This! – As humans, we all bring different personality tendencies to our teams. We can choose how to amplify those that contribute to the greater good. Relationships. We all have them. Because of this, they get a bad rap.
Answering Important Questions – How Does Social Recognition Work in Manufacturing?
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OCTOBER 25, 2016
by Traci Pesch. Recognize This! – All employees can benefit from the power of thanks, regardless of job type, function or role. I get asked lot of questions. As a mother, I hear interesting questions like: “Why does Moose’s (our pet guinea pig) nose move up and down and not side to side?” and “If the earth is round, do rainbows circle the earth? And if they do, where does the pot of gold go?”
2016 Training Program Best Practices
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Can you hear the collective groan when you launch that new compliance course? Do you get complaints both public and private from trainees about the uselessness of the training courses you've launched? Is there anything that can be done about it
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To Change Culture, Follow These 4 Steps
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JULY 6, 2016
By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! Culture change can be difficult, but reinforcing and recognizing core behaviors provides small victories that ultimately lead to positive change for the entire company. If you want to start an interesting debate in the office, ask a couple of people this question: “Do you think organizational culture can be changed?”.
3 Challenges for Creating Authentic Engagement
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JANUARY 11, 2016
by Derek Irvine. Recognize This! — Employees who engage their authentic selves at work contribute to unparalleled employee and customer experiences. I was reading a recent Forbes article that discussed the distinction between employees’ authentic engagement versus scripted service in creating an unparalleled customer experience. Why is it so hard? How did you go about recognizing that moment?
Doing Gymnastics at Work
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SEPTEMBER 12, 2016
By 2016, she missed competing for the all-around final despite having the third-highest score. With the 2016 Paralympics beginning, new inspiration is all around us. Employee Engagement Employee Motivation Performance Management WorkHuman 2016 Olympics US Women's Gymnastics forced ranking Gabby Douglas Simone Biles Work Humanby Traci Pesch. Superstar” is relative.
How Recognition Makes WorkHuman
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APRIL 13, 2016
Recently we released our WorkHuman Research Institute Spring 2016 report, “ The ROI of Recognition in building a More Human Workplace,” assessing the attitudes and expectations of those fully employed from their workplaces today. (Be sure to tune in Thursday, April 14, for Derek Irvine ’s discussion with Sharlyn Lauby of the findings of the report. by Lynette Silva. Perception is reality.
Leaving performance reviews behind: Where to start [Guide]
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1Making Dynamic Performance. Development a Reality eGuide 3Introduction Does your organization want to adopt. more dynamic approach to managing. performance and developing employees? We see a stampede of organizations. moving in this direction. At the same. time, we also see that, all too often, managers in such organizations are simply. not prepared to follow through because. Without clear. Maybe.
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What really hurts productivity?
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MARCH 25, 2016
By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! — Inadvertently placing unnecessary rules on employee behavior, instead of offering more freedom, can hurt productivity. couple of days ago, I wrote a post that addressed some recent research on the negative impact that corporate award programs can have on firm productivity. One finding did stick with me, though.
Praise is an Essential Skill for New Managers
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FEBRUARY 22, 2016
By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! Praising conversations are a key tool for new managers across generations, improving their capacity for communication and relationship building. There is no shortage of skills that new managers need to develop as they transition from individual contributors to leading people for the first time. The value of praise is immense.
The Secret to a Happier Workplace
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MAY 20, 2016
By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! Science has transformed workplace happiness from a nice-to-have to a compelling imperative, but it needs to start with alignment, positivity, and progress. What comes to mind when you imagine what a happy workplace might look like? company full of optimists who are always smiling no matter what’s going on around them. Who wouldn’t want to have more of that at work?
3 Ideas for More Generosity at Work
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JULY 1, 2016
By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! – A culture of generosity is one aspect of a more human workplace that is a natural fit, but also needs to be curated. There are many different ways that organizations can become more human, evidenced by the sheer diversity of ideas across our WorkHuman speakers and thinkers , as well as our own research. What does generosity mean in the context of work?
Skill based learning – How it drives an organization’s performance
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Training and learning organizations today play an active role in contributing to the bottom line of any organization by aligning their objectives to the immediate business objectives. This provides a solid ground for cost justification and encourages businesses to place training groups right where they should be, at the heart of a growing, thriving, learning culture
Recognize Effectiveness and Minimize Bureaucracy
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JULY 8, 2016
As Gary notes in the article- reflective of the key theme from his WorkHuman 2016 keynote and a recent Q&A on the Globoforce blog (spanning Parts I , II , and III )- that chain of events is not inevitable. By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! – New mindsets that emphasize and recognize effectiveness over effort are needed to replace increasing bureaucracy. What might that look like?
Making the Performance Review More Human
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MAY 24, 2016
By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! Performance reviews need to reflect the relationships of performance, and stop treating it like a contract. Read most any article on the transformation of performance reviews and you will immediately come across a line about how universally disliked they are. Talking over this issue with a few colleagues recently, an analogy to school grades was brought up.
Top 3 Drivers of Employee Satisfaction (and Salary Isn’t One of Them)
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APRIL 21, 2016
by Traci Pesch. Recognize This! Company culture, career opportunities and trust in senior leaders drive employee satisfaction far more than salary. Have you ever gone down rabbit holes on the web, where you start reading one article, then click an embedded link that seems intriguing, and then do it again in the next article? Unsurprisingly, all 25 spots are held by consulting and high-tech firms.
WorkHuman Takeaway: Teach Our Children Well
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MAY 19, 2016
WorkHuman 2016 in Orlando was a powerful, exciting experience for many reasons, not least of which was the opportunity to be with, learn from and share the experience with other amazing humans. by Traci Pesch. Recognize This! Much of our own human behavior was learned as children. Let’s think carefully about how we are teaching our children to be human. See human. Be human. Work human.
Innovation Buster: How Losing Your Best Employees is Killing Innovation
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Employees at the front lines often have better ideas for innovation than others within the business, but when they walk out the door, they take those ideas with them. Want to innovate better and faster than the competition? You need to hold onto your best employees and the ideas they have.
The Secret to Scaling Up with Recognition
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FEBRUARY 23, 2016
Shawn Achor, writing recently in the Harvard Business Review (and one of our incredible speakers for WorkHuman 2016 ), emphasized this point perfectly: “effective digital recognition programs can help scale organic praise, have a high ROI, and lead to significantly higher levels of employee performance and engagement, as well as increased customer loyalty.”. By Derek Irvine. Recognize This!
What Happens to Me When You are Recognized?
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FEBRUARY 8, 2016
by Derek Irvine. Research is split on what happens to the motivation of people who see others get recognized. One solution is to simply recognize everyone. There is quite the interesting debate shaping up among researchers looking into the motivational potential of recognition. Simply put, if I see you being recognized for excellent work, will I be motivated to step up my game or not?
Keeping Work Human in Tough Times
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APRIL 11, 2016
By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! Tough times can bring difficult personnel decisions, but it is important to keep an emphasis on the human culture that will help employees weather the storm. Tough times often bring some interesting dilemmas for company leadership. I saw an article out recently from Strategy+Business that argued for strategic hiring during a downturn.
To Change Organization Culture You Must Change This First
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MARCH 18, 2016
by Lynette Silva. Recognize This! – All organizational change rides on changing the daily behaviors of the humans first. Company culture. What is it? What does it do? How How can you change it or at least manipulate it? All are questions we encounter often with the organizations we work with regularly. Culture has been a topic of this blog , our books , and the WorkHuman movemen t many times.
Ditching the formal performance review? Kineo shares 3 Elements for Success
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From Performance Management. to Performance Development eGuide 2Part 2: A Roadmap. for Change In Part 1 of this eGuide, we explored the confluence. of factors that’s driving change in how performance. is managed and how organizations are moving. away from the traditional annual review process to. more real-time dynamic approach. This all sounds. very logical, of course, until an organization starts to. push forward with change then finds that there may. be some very real barriers to moving forward. successfully transition from a traditional performance. management approach to a more dynamic.
Closing the Skills Gap in a Human Era
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SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! – The practices that make a workplace more human are also the ones that can position a company to successfully adapt to future change. Many companies are struggling to keep pace with emerging skills gaps. This is according to a recent interview in Harvard Business Review with Cathy Benko, Vice Chairman at Deloitte.
3 Ways to Make Work More Human
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JULY 22, 2016
by Lynette Silva. Recognize This! Regardless of industry or company size, all employees need authenticity, mindfulness and recognition. Why do we WorkHuman? Simple – how else could we possibly work? We are human, after all. And yet, our workplaces or work experiences often aren’t structured to honor, support or encourage the very humanity we bring to the office. How do we make work more human?
Seeing the Full Spectrum of Recognition
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FEBRUARY 10, 2016
By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! — There are people at work whose contributions we might miss. culture of recognition helps to make sure we don’t. came across a recent New York Times Corner Office article with Walt Bettinger. He is the CEO of the Charles Schwab Corporation and shared a powerful lesson he learned as an undergraduate student. And that had a powerful impact.
Make Work Human by Making it Personal
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APRIL 20, 2016
By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! Providing an individualized experience to employees, rather than one-size-fits-all, is a key to making work human and improving well-being. One of the characteristics of modern organizations and the WorkHuman movement at large is making the workplace a more individualized experience as one part of a larger unified and human-centered culture.
Learner motivation explained! Learn how to use an LMS to motivate your learners to upskill
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Training and development professionals often bemoan the lack of apparent initiative in their trainees. Learning professionals spend huge sums of money creating or acquiring skill aligned libraries of learning content, only to watch almost helplessly as learners refuse to engage with any training available that isn’t mandatory
Are You Psychologically Safe at Work?
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MARCH 30, 2016
by Lynette Silva. Recognize This! Successful work teams require a sense of psychological safety, which is key to working human. Newsflash – no person is an island, especially at work. Okay, maybe that’s not much of a newsflash. In today’s complex work and world cultures, little work gets done by an individual contributor working solely on a project all by herself. Click To Tweet.
Creativity for the Whole Career
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MAY 31, 2016
By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! Ongoing creativity requires a delicate balance of specialized and diverse knowledge, which can be supported through human-focused workplace practices. It’s true that generations matter to organizations, but perhaps not in the way you might be thinking. Unleashing career-long creativity requires balancing specialized and diverse knowledge #workhuman Click To Tweet.
Growth Starts with Working Human
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JULY 29, 2016
In today’s post, I wanted to revisit a set of findings from the 2016 WorkHuman Research Institute ROI of Recognition survey. By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! Growth within a human workplace combines traditional learning opportunities with the recognition of a challenge- and fun-oriented mindset. Two parallels are of note. Let’s dig deeper into each of these in turn.
Does Culture Relate to Retention or Not?
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APRIL 13, 2016
By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! – One key to understanding why employees stay is culture, as long as we agree on what type of culture. Employee retention is a complex phenomenon that can be difficult to predict broadly, not to mention down to the level of a single employee. As the novelty or effect wears off, employees get bored and leave. So what about retention and an authentic culture?
HR's Critical Role in Creating Productive and Meaningful Workplaces
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It’s OK to Bring Your Whole Self to Work
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JUNE 17, 2016
By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! Implicit norms about being yourself at work are a large part of the power of working human. Have you seen this post circulating on LinkedIn? The entire poster is available here.). Many of the things on the list struck me as extraordinarily human parts of working, as well as the challenging process of learning a new role, team, and organization. whole self WorkHuma
The Future of Worker Productivity
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AUGUST 18, 2016
By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! Less pure output and more holistic wellbeing, productivity is driven by the employee experience and technologies that can give leaders greater insight. Last week, I wrote about worker productivity from the perspective of economists and the figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. How is your organization looking into the employee experience and productivity?
Recognition, from Culture to Practice!
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APRIL 26, 2016
By Traci Pesch. Recognize This! – A sustainable culture of recognition starts with “why” to inform positive spirals between culture and practices. Why does employee recognition matter? What elements make social recognition a success? How do we even define “success?” What types of significant results are achievable through social recognition? So, why is recognition important? It’s our passion.
Don’t Believe that Positivity Can Work for You?
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JUNE 10, 2016
By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! – A strategy that includes evidence-based business cases and ground-up moments of positivity can help shift companies away from leaders who manage through fear or pressure. Transforming it into a more positivity-driven approach requires two complementary approaches. The second approach is taking small moments and building them into a gradual cultural shift.
The Performance Management Storm: Four Macro-Trends Driving the Change
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1Why Your Company Will Need to. Rethink Performance Management eGuide Part 1: The Argument. for Change 2 3About this Guide Organizations are increasingly. moving from traditional performance. management systems (organized as. an annual review process) to newer. performance development systems. organized around real-time dynamics). Here, in Part 1, we describe why. happening now. As you’ll see, the.
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