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Employee Engagement Lessons from the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For: Boston Consulting Group
In cooperation with a generous compensation and benefits system, paid sabbaticals, and unprecedented flexibility to facilitate increased work-life balance, the BCG commitment to its employees and to improving the world attracts top talent and engaged employees. Continue reading
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Create Ownership to Promote Change
When change is required, it’s important to allow each employee, and even yourself, the independence to make decisions surrounding the change. In this way, you pacify natural anxiety with a balance of control and independence. Continue reading
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The Most Important Predictor of Leadership Development Success
Most organizations have implemented some type of leadership training program to develop their leaders. Executive coaching, in particular, has become a popular method for leadership development. In the article, “Leadership is a Contact Sport” from Strategy + Business Magazine, Marshall … Continue reading
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The Likeability Question: Assessing Talent for Hiring Decisions
By prioritizing likeability, companies can ensure that new hires onboard seamlessly into the organizational culture, engage effectively with established teams, and ultimately succeed in the company. Continue reading
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How the Pygmalion Effect Can Increase Employee Engagement & Performance
The Pygmalion Effect is a psychological theory which refers to the phenomenon where increased expectation leads to increased performance. Continue reading
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Employee Engagement Lessons from the Fortune “100 Best Companies to Work For”: Zappos.com
Although a Zappos style of culture may not work at your typical law firm, these practices clearly create a unique work experience that attracts top talent and engaged employees. Continue reading
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Internal vs. External Motivation
Carrots & sticks are so last century. Drive says for 21st century work, we need to upgrade internal motivators: autonomy, mastery & purpose. Continue reading
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Turn Work into Play: Increasing Employee Engagement
If employees are able to grasp and reach flow at work and consequently turn their job into play, they will not only enjoy work to a greater extent, but they will also reach higher levels of production and effectiveness. Continue reading
Top 10 Employee Engagement Survey Responses of 2010
Here are our Top 10 Employee Engagement Survey Responses of 2010, some hilarious, some painful, and some downright puzzling. Enjoy. Continue reading
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Take the Quiz: What’s Your Locus of Control?
Quiz: For each of the following five questions, select the alternative with which you most agree. Use the scoring key at the bottom of the post to determine whether you tend toward an external or internal locus of control. 1. … Continue reading
