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Part Two: Quit and Stay? 7 Factors to Increase Employee Satisfaction by Joe Folkman
The first 3 Factors were consistent values, long-term focus, and local leadership. The last 4 factors are: 4. Continuous Communications. People often tend to communicate less during bad times when they need communication even more. This company increased its efforts to communicate and share important information. If there was no good news to share, they would share the [...]
Quit and Stay? 7 Factors to Increase Employee Satisfaction by Joe Folkman
Two years ago when employees became dissatisfied with their organization they would quit and get another job. Today, with emplacement opportunities very low and unemployment extremely high, very few people opt to quit and leave. Their option is to quit and stay. In the last year, overall job satisfaction in the U.S. has declined significantly. [...]
Invisible Architecture™ is the Key to Leadership
Think of all the money spent on designing office buildings, moving cubicles around, consolidating locations. Capital expenditures take a big budget chunk. But what if you literally had the cart before the horse. What if you’re moving people, materials, and merchandise but have forgotten to move what really matters: the human spirit—invisible to the human [...]
Top 40 Bonehead Boss Stories
Geoffrey James, Sales Machine, writes about bonehead bosses on BNet just in time for National Bosses Day on October 16th. Some of the stories are ones you might already know but a few of them were new to me. My favorite is number six when a VP order employees to take a lie detector test [...]
Is Leadership A “Social Process”?
Four well-known, academic thinkers and writers on leadership recently released a new book, “Exploring Leadership” (Oxford University Press). Although the book leaves many question unanswered and tends to get stuck in academic debates, I find myself intrigued by the authors insistence that leadership is a “social process”. By their definition, leadership exists in the interactions [...]
People-First Learning Is a Key to Effective Mentoring
As wonderful as Wikipedia and Google can be in finding out information, when it comes to effective mentoring, going directly to real people trumps an outdated content-first approach. Why? Employees have figured out that information without context and organizational history is ineffective and often incorrect. People look to and connect to other people when there [...]
The Essence of Leadership Movie
Mac Anderson, the founder of Simple Truths and Successories, has created a movie called The Essence Of Leadership that you can see for free at The Leadership Movie. The 27 chapters in The Essence of Leadership are inspirational and reflect the thoughts and successes of leaders both past and present. Take a moment and watch [...]
Check out the Leader Quiz From Leadership Now
Do you have what it takes to be a leader? The answer depends on some pretty subjective variables. However, this quiz will help give you a rough idea as to whether or not you have the attributes of a good leader. Take the quiz at http://www.leadershipnow.com/quiz.html
First Look: Leadership Books for January 2011
The Leading Blog has a post titled “First Look: Leadership Books for January 2011″. A couple of their picks include Practically Radical: Not-So-Crazy Ways to Transform Your Company, Shake Up Your Industry, and Challenge Yourself by William C. Taylor and The Great Workplace: How to Build It, How to Keep It, and Why It Matters [...]
The 10 Commandments of Leadership Blog Tour
Welcome to Day 3 of The 10 Commandments of Leadership Blog Tour “Communicate with Care and Conviction” Today, I’m hosting The 10 Commandments of Leadership Blog Tour, by WalkTheTalk.com. For 10 days, 10 blogs are highlighting and discussing each of The 10 Commandments of Leadership. Based on over sixty years of combined professional experience of [...]