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Praise is an Essential Skill for New Managers
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FEBRUARY 22, 2016
study last year found that Millennials (born between 1981 and 1997) believe the most important leadership skills are communication and relationship building (58% and 55%, respectively). By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! Praising conversations are a key tool for new managers across generations, improving their capacity for communication and relationship building.
WorkHuman Wednesday * Thermostat Wars: How to Stop Freezing Productivity and Bringing Workers to a Boil
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AUGUST 5, 2015
According to a 2009 study , employees’ top complaint is being cold at work—including during the summer. According to a Cornell University study , employees made 44% more mistakes when room temperature was 68 degrees Fahrenheit (20 degrees Celsius) or less. The model was devised for men’s metabolic rates in the 1960s, proved by a study released earlier this week. Recognize This!
Off to HR Tech 2016!
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OCTOBER 3, 2016
We will be sharing the results from a new global study conducted by the WorkHuman Research Institute at Globoforce, and the IBM Smarter Workforce Institute. 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.
What Happens to Me When You are Recognized?
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FEBRUARY 8, 2016
This is the question posed by a recent study published in Psychological Science. A set of experiments involved grading peer assignments as part of a massive open online course (MOOC). 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. In two simple words: include everyone!
HR Innovators Conference - 6 Recorded Sessions
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Seeing the Full Spectrum of Recognition
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FEBRUARY 10, 2016
It all came down to the final exam, for which he spent a great deal of time studying and memorizing. 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. And that had a powerful impact.
Are You Psychologically Safe at Work?
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MARCH 30, 2016
Google has done that heavy lifting through their Project Aristotle (described in this New York Times article ) – a classic data-crunching study of how their people interact and collaborate to get work done. 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.
WorkHuman Wednesday: 4 Reasons You Should Nap on the Job
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AUGUST 26, 2015
Nappers are happier A long list of peer-reviewed studies determined that napping improves mood. by Lynette Silva. Image Credit: OstrichPillow.com. Recognize This!—Napping Napping during the workday makes employees more alert, innovative, and happy—making your company more profitable. Harvard Medical School found the American economy loses $63.2
What You Get From Giving
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MARCH 7, 2016
It turns out there are a number of benefits to this set of workplace behaviors, supported by a couple of recent studies, and expanding upon many of the positive benefits of giving that Adam Grant has written about. In one study , researchers examined the daily behavior of a group of employees in a service management firm. By Derek Irvine. Recognize This!
Move Beyond Learning to Applying: A Modern Management Development Program
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practical case studies and examples. 1 kineo.com [email protected] 312-846-6656 Hard to believe that it’s been almost 20 years since the term “eLearning” entered the corpo- rate learning lexicon. And just in the last five years, the velocity at which new solutions have entered. the market has gone through the roof. We now. have the ability deploy video, virtual role-plays, and. Right?
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Why Employee Engagement Matters in Healthcare
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NOVEMBER 24, 2014
This has been proven by study after study. by Derek Irvine. Recognize This! Engaged employees directly and powerfully impact customer satisfaction, which translates to patient health and safety in the healthcare industry. Employee engagement is critical to customer satisfaction. And engagement is critical in any industry from retail to manufacturing to high-tech to pharmaceuticals.
Balancing Manager and Individual Responsibility for Employee Engagement
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JULY 20, 2015
They point to several research studies and reports, but in this context I call your attention to the Gallup Cascade Effect chart below. by Derek Irvine. Recognize This! It’s a valid question and one that often arises from a lack of understanding – what drives engagement and why should we care? Truly engaged employees are “bought in.” Does this mean they work overtime? How engaged are you?
Want to Increase Employee Engagement? Communicate Meaning & Value of Work
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NOVEMBER 10, 2014
From the survey press release : “Study participants gave their employers low marks in a handful of areas that remain challenges to better engagement overall. by Derek Irvine. Recognize This! Employee engagement is increasing in most factors, but we’re still falling short in recognizing employees and providing them with the tools to do the job well. Think about it. It’s just common sense.
Having Fun at Work? Really.
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APRIL 28, 2016
More and more studies are beginning to support the importance of fun in the workplace, detailed out in a recent piece in Entrepreneur , as well as through classic academic studies around the positive outcomes of broadening and building. by Derek Irvine. Recognize This! Companies that encourage fun at work, as well as in work, are well positioned to succeed.
Leaving performance reviews behind: Where to start [Guide]
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Learning Case Study Blended Learning. 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. Without clear.
5 Steps to Get the Most Out of Your Day
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AUGUST 25, 2015
Harvard study revealed US companies are losing $63.2 One study included a story of Gary Faro, a VP at Wachovia, who saw his “energy levels soar” (and weight drop 50 pounds) when he started sleeping more and taking regular breaks away from his desk. by Derek Irvine. Recognize This! Humans work on 90 minute cycles of energy , after which our energy and productivity drops.
Avoiding the Perils of Awards Programs
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MARCH 23, 2016
recent academic study is catching a few headlines, suggesting that award programs can have negative motivational spillover effects and actually lead to decreased productivity. The study focused on an award program for attendance, implemented by a plant manager in one facility of a commercial laundry company. By Derek Irvine. Here’s my take on why it didn’t work out.
Compensation Cafe: Millennials on the Market
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FEBRUARY 19, 2015
” Yesterday on Compensation Cafe , I shared a recent study from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (reported in the Washington Post), that shows how much you earn in the first 10 years of your career is a primary factor in determining your lifetime earnings. by Derek Irvine. Recognize This! — Career advancement can be perceived as only possible by changing organizations.
Gartner Reveals 7 Best Practices for Employee Social Recognition
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NOVEMBER 23, 2015
And be sure to read to the end for the detailed case study of how a global high-tech organization incorporated these seven best practices to great effect. by Derek Irvine. Recognize This! – At the heart of any success social recognition program are the relationships built through appreciation of others. What are the seven best practices? Read the full report for details on each.
Ditching the formal performance review? Kineo shares 3 Elements for Success
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Learning Case Study Blended Learning. 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. management approach to a more dynamic. Moving.
Bersin Says “Thanks” Critical for Employee Engagement
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AUGUST 31, 2015
We studied this topic and found that “high-recognition companies” have 31 percent lower voluntary turnover than companies with poor recognition cultures.36 by Derek Irvine. Recognize This! — There are many drivers of employee engagement, but feedback, recognition and “thanks” lead the charge. What you contribute has great value, meaning and purpose, and you do it well.”
Core Values Leads to Increased Engagement Resulting in Bottom-line Results
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FEBRUARY 9, 2015
One recent study from Aon Hewitt showed that every incremental percentage point increase in employee engagement resulted in 0.6% of sales growth. by Derek Irvine. Recognize This! Whatever underpins your company’s culture will impact your company’s success. Building a strong foundation on your core values is proven to increase employee engagement. That is a powerful finding. Thank you!”.
Why Tracking Employee Recognition Patterns Matters
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JULY 2, 2015
And every single Friday afternoon, after the students go home, she takes out those slips of paper, places them in front of her, and studies them. by Traci Pesch. Recognize This! – We can learn much about the culture of our workplaces, departments and teams just by deliberately observing and interpreting the pattern of positivity. We have a new joiner on our team (Welcome, Jessica!)
Assume Your Inner Super Hero to Achieve Your Best Self
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DECEMBER 14, 2015
This is the main idea from the episode: “Her studies show that if you stand like a superhero privately before going into a stressful situation, there will actually be hormonal changes in your body chemistry that cause you to be more confident and in-command. by Lynette Silva. Recognize This! – Our physical presence communicates far more about our humanness than we realize. Do you hear it?
3 Lessons on the Power of Thanks on Vacation
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MAY 27, 2015
Learning from the experts I’ve been studying in preparation for WorkHuman next month, I fully disconnected and focused on relaxing and refreshing my mind, body and spirit. by Lynette Silva. Recognize This! Appreciation and gratitude for others are powerful forces that are always at work, if we choose to notice them. Last week I enjoyed my first “real” vacation in many years.
Market Basket One Year Later * Relationships Win
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SEPTEMBER 15, 2015
Per The Boston Globe : “Its prices remain lower than its competition , according to independent studies (though they have grown year-over-year, according to another study ), and the company has put hundreds of millions of dollars into retirement accounts and bonus checks since last year. by Lynette Silva. Arthur S. DeMoulas (ASD) had 51% ownership and ran the board. Arthur T.
The Connecting Power of Gratitude
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NOVEMBER 25, 2015
See this study referenced in the University of California, Berkley’s Greater Good Science Center : A team at the University of Southern California has shed light on the neural nuts and bolts of gratitude in a new study , offering insights into the complexity of this social emotion and how it relates to other cognitive processes…. And this is just one study along these lines.
Disengaged Employees and the Risk of Inside Hackers
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JULY 27, 2015
Study Says Focus on Employee Engagement. Let’s Talk Confidential Information And Trade Secrets. by Derek Irvine. Recognize This! Successfully engaging your employees instills a loyalty that can prevent company insiders from leaking private information. It seems we hear about more breaches of companies’ customers’ personal or financial information nearly every month. Lucy L.M.
Worried about Information Security? Study Says Focus on Employee Engagement
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NOVEMBER 7, 2014
Strategy + Business recently reported on a study of information security in the workplace, specifically on how differently security specialists vs. line managers perceive danger spots: “The authors conducted in-depth interviews with frontline workers, managers, and information security professionals—CIOs and network administrators—at large firms in a variety of industries across the United States.
Feedback Is Critical (but Don’t Say Anything Negative)
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FEBRUARY 20, 2015
Yet studies show people are far more effective and productive at work when they focus on work that plays to their strengths and not expending too much effort on improving their weaknesses. by Lynette Silva. Recognize This! Positive feedback has more power than negative criticism for boosting performance. In an article sure to inspire a good bit of negative “kids today!” Wayfair Inc.,
What “Amazing” Did You Miss Today?
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FEBRUARY 5, 2015
have no scientific study to point to, but I have to imagine the percentage of “Missed Amazing” is quite high. by Lynette Silva. Recognize This! Amazing work is being done by brilliant people around us every day, but it’s easy to miss unless we create more avenues for exceptional effort to be seen, acknowledged and appreciated. Here’s a photo that encapsulates the world we live in today.
Why We Must Bring More Romance to Work
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APRIL 23, 2015
Tim points out: “What was once the heart and soul of our education [liberal arts core curriculum], the foundation of our most basic notions regarding our humanity, has now become a field of study pursued only by dreamers and rebels.”. by Lynette Silva. Recognize This! It is possible to be both a romantic and a solid businessperson. Now, I love them. What does this mean at work? Are you?
You Can’t WorkHuman if You Can’t Communicate
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OCTOBER 8, 2015
There are many reasons why communication skills are important, but today I point you to my post on Compensation Cafe and a study of 71,000 employees completed by PayScale. Click through to my Compensation Cafe post for a summary of key observations of the full study. by Derek Irvine. Recognize This! Understanding. Purpose. Meaning. Value. All are elements of communication.
The Not-so-secret Formula to Making Incentives Work
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MARCH 3, 2016
Some point to studies demonstrating the motivational potential of performance incentives, while others point to a “crowding-out” of intrinsic motivation when incentives are present. by Derek Irvine. Recognize This! – To be effective, recent research suggests incentives are best paired with recognition. Given the data that has amassed on either side of the debate, where do we stand today?
Putting Recognition Out to Pasture?
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APRIL 1, 2016
Sometimes in the hunt for research, you come across a study that is too good to skip, regardless of how tangential the headline is to what you are actually looking for. The study in question from a few years back: “ Happy cows produce more milk. ”. By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! First, for all of the skeptics: this is not an April Fool’s Day post. compared to farmers that do not.
Time Management: A Book Review
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DECEMBER 29, 2015
Over the years, I’ve become a fan of research and recommendations from the likes of Tony Schwartz and his Energy Project as well as studies showing multi-tasking makes us less productive rather than more. by Derek Irvine. Recognize This! Time is an irreplaceable resource. How we use our limited time is a choice. It’s that time of year – New Year’s resolution time. emphasis original).
Professional development positively effects engagement and retention, study says
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JULY 29, 2016
recent study provides us with some new insight. . Here are some highlights of what the study uncovered: More than three-quarters (78%) of survey participants said they had access to some form of developmental programs. In this week's e-newsletter Management Retention & Turnover BetterBuys engagement professional development studyWhat sort of opportunities do employees want?
Case Study | Nestlé
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MAY 25, 2016
The post Case Study | Nestlé appeared first on Kontiki. Case StudiesNestlé leverages Kollective to give over 180,000 of their employees a voice, enabling internal communications and collaboration with no impact on the network. One of Kontiki’s strengths is their team spirit and quality of support at all levels. They are very responsive. We are not considered customers, but part of a big team.” Geneviève Reymond, […].
Study Reveals Positive Employee Experiences Matter
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DECEMBER 16, 2014
Our study showed that while 91.3% of employees felt that their organizations'' sick day policy was "fair," almost 15% of those respondents shared that it was difficult for them to access those sick hours. Our study found that the two biggest challenges remote managers faced both involved the concept of time: What time is my employee arriving and departing (starting/stopping work)?
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