Employee Engagement & Motivation

Has your workplace become contaminated with negative energy, negative people, and negative behavior? If so, you’ve got a big problem on your hands that needs attention. A negativity culture will affect work relationships, employees’ attitudes toward leadership, coworkers, customers, and ultimately productivity. A negative culture also leads to higher involuntary turnover levels from your best […]

Are self-managed teams right for your company?  With all due respect to Zappos and the concept of holacracy, most organizations are traditionally hierarchical in nature. A traditional hierarchy means everyone has a job title (even if it’s outdated); a few people are at the top of the food chain, and a few more are in […]

We’ve all heard about the toxic employee. They have notoriously bad attitudes that affect and infect the team, bringing down the mood and productivity of just about everyone around them. These proverbial “bad apples” can reside in the ranks of management, but either way causes trouble for your staff and your customers—and that means trouble […]

Working 9 to 5 might describe the typical workday for most employees, but you’re not a typical employee. You’re sluggish and lethargic during the morning hours, but you tend to get smarter and sharper as the day progresses. And by the end of the workday, when most people are shutting down to leave work, you’re […]

Telecommuting is on the rise. Each year the share of the U.S. labor force that works offsite grows. The U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey reports that 2.6% of American workers telecommute when limiting the definition of this status to full-time employees at private, nonprofit, or government organizations who work at least half time at home. […]

It happens to the best of people. They star as performers, whether in sports, sales, or other highly competitive fields, but when they are promoted into management, their twinkle dims. They prove to be mediocre leaders. They fail upward. Why do first-time managers fail upward? Employees excel because they are unique. Perhaps they work very […]