Onboarding New Employees into Your Company Culture
Recognize This! – Specific, timely recognition within the first 30 days is the fastest way to engage new hires into your organizational culture. As an HR pro or hiring manager, you’ve gone to great...
View ArticleHow to Love Work Again
Recognize This! – We all want to do good work and also do right by ourselves and our families. Balancing these “energy” needs is the path to success – at work and at home. “How’s your energy level?”...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing How to Re-Engage Fatigued Employees
Recognize This! – Kind commenters shared additional wisdom on how to re-engage fatigued employees. Last week, I shared here on Recognize This! a summary of my SHRM 2014 annual conference presentation –...
View ArticleSticks & Stones… * Why the Emotional Intent of Your Words Matter
Recognize This! – We have the power to make our work (and home) environments more positive, simply through the words we choose to use more often. All over the news today is Facebook’s stealthy...
View ArticleHorrible Bosses: Do These 2 Things to Reform Them into Star Leaders
Recognize This! – Reforming horrible bosses relies on focusing on feedback skills, both positive and negative. Do you work for a horrible boss? Have you ever? Some of my favorite email feeds are from...
View Article3 Tips to Become an Exceptional Manager
Recognize This! – Selflessness, good assumptions and recognition are the most powerful tools in the good manager’s arsenal. In my most recent post on Compensation Café, I referenced a quote from Don...
View ArticleCompensation Cafe: Without a Decent Salary, All Employee Productivity Bets...
Recognize This! – Managers need to realign their idea of what motivates productivity to employees’ actual needs. Today on Compensation Cafe I shared a Venn diagram by Oscar Berg: In the post, I discuss...
View ArticleCompensation Cafe: 2 Reasons Why a Pay Check Isn’t Recognition
Recognize This! — Recognition is critical to ensuring employees are in the right job and are valued for the work they do. Check out my most recent post on Compensation Cafe in which I explain why a...
View ArticleGuest Post: What Your Employee Engagement Survey Says about Your Leadership...
Recognize This! – How leaders respond to engagement survey results can say as much (or more) about company culture and employee engagement as the survey itself. (Editor’s note: I rarely post guest...
View ArticleHow “Good” Are You?
Recognize This! – The macro “Good Country Index” offers brilliant micro lessons for the workplace, too. When you hear the word “good,” what do you think of? How do you define it? The natural...
View Article