One effective way to be sure is to ask your employees, through focus groups, one-on-one conferences or surveys. When exploring this question, try to understand through the employees’ lens what caring ...
David Hassell is Founder & CEO of 15Five, web-based communication software that elevates the performance of managers, employees and entire organizations by initiating weekly conversations that quickly ...
Employee engagement has been a buzzword over the last few years, and with good reason – it’s how we retain and promote our best employees. But how does it actually work? What are the mechanics behind ...
We’ve all crossed paths with a “difficult” employee: the kind of colleague who ignores directions, rebuffs the input of their team and might carry an air of negativity with them, too. While working ...
When advocating for better performance management, we ask managers to be a "coach" to their employees—borrowing the term from sports. However, it seems that the sports analogy stops there. For example ...
We’ve seen remarkable advances in the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI). The recent leap forward in natural language-processing, where AI models can comprehend and generate human-like text, ...
Would you rather hear what you can have versus what you can’t? Most of us respond better to positive reinforcement than to that ever-dangling carrot just out of reach. Neuroscientists agree. In a ...