From the daily archives:

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Employee Engagement is More than a Fuzzy Feeling Part 1

by AshleyDawn Sheppard on November 18, 2009

Everyone has been a disengaged employee at some point, but people don’t want to talk about engagement in this economy. The general attitude seems to be, “Keep your mouth shut, your head down and do your job well so that you don’t get fired.” Some even say that the concept of engagement is too [...]

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Current Labor Markets Affect Strategic Planning

by Megan Bullard on November 18, 2009

The famous mantra “failing to plan is planning to fail” may seem irrelevant to most, but in fact it may be one of the most important for businesses to understand. Strategic workforce planning is a process that ensures that your business has the right people in the right jobs at the right time to achieve [...]

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Demolishing the Functional Silo

by Megan Bullard on November 18, 2009

Every leader faces management challenges, but one of the toughest we discovered in our recent examination of the problems that put managers at risk is an inability to see beyond the four walls of the department, the unit or the manager’s “functional silo.”
One top leader says that she feels like she has to climb the [...]

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Poor Management Leads to Failure

by Megan Bullard on November 18, 2009

Ineffective managers contribute to the decline of productivity in the workplace worldwide. Their contributions include the dreaded 80-hour work week, discouragement of initiative and creative thinking, opposition to risk-taking, massive turnover, and the ultimate failure of many organizations.
This scenario is repeated, often in scandalously public ways, year after year. One astonishing collapse of a poorly [...]

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Promoting With Purpose

by Megan Bullard on November 18, 2009

People who have historically performed well expect to be promoted. Many will have a sense of entitlement, but succession planning requires you to look forward to the future, not back to the past.
Succession planning is a process that requires careful consideration of the organization’s current and future personnel needs. It begins with taking inventory of [...]

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