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10 Myths of Employee Recognition & Rewards

Recognize This! -Recognition done right advances your business objectives. I’m honoured to have an article included in the December issue of Candian HR Reporter in which I debunk 10 recognition and reward myths. Employee recognition is best given...

Published 30 Jan 2012 5:24 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: talent management, appreciation, recognition, rewards, business objectives, canadian hr reporter

HR Is Not Responsible for Your Culture – You Are

Recognize This! –Everyone is responsible for creating the culture you want to work in every day. Who is responsible for people and culture in your organization? Is that considered the purview of HR? Or is it more correctly viewed as the responsibility...

Published 30 Jan 2012 2:13 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: appreciation, recognition, engagement, company culture, leadership, values, harris corporation, ron ashkenas

How Employee Stress Affects Risk Factors & Financial Results

Recognize This! –If employee retention is important enough to list as a substantial risk factor to meeting financial expectations, then it should be important enough to find ways to reduce employee stress. I just read an interesting story in Forbes...

Published 27 Jan 2012 7:37 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: employee retention, performance management, talent management, strategic employee recognition, communication, values, culture, forbes, employee stress, workforce mood tracker

2 Reasons Why Google Repeatedly Tops the Best Companies Work For

Recognize This! – Your company culture underpins every success and every failure. Bob Sutton , Stanford professor and author of No Asshole Rule and Good Boss, Bad Boss is on the top of my list of must-read blogs and books. Last week he recounted...

Published 27 Jan 2012 3:30 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: employee engagement, strategic recognition, performance management, values, culture, bob sutton, respect, equality, google, shona brown

A Formula for Employee Engagement?

Recognize This! – Know your people. Lead them well. Thank them for their work. That’s the formula for engagement. Is employee engagement formulaic? It is according to Gallup, which offers the equation below (and recently featured in Forbes...

Published 23 Jan 2012 8:14 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: employee engagement, strategic recognition, performance management, company values, talent management, forbes, measurable recognition

5 Strategies to Motivate Employees (Hat-tip: Eric Chester)

Recognize This! – Motivating employees requires work and effort, not wishes and hopes. I never tire of learning more about the power of a strong company culture and how to foster such a culture in organizations today. Following on my post from yesterday...

Published 20 Jan 2012 5:09 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: employee engagement, strategic recognition, company values, company culture, motivation, eric chester, reviving work ethic, work ethic

3 Lessons for Core Company Values Done Right

Recognize This! – A values-based company culture requires far more than hanging a plaque on a wall. Do CEOs – other than Tony Hsieh of Zappos , of course – actually think about the company’s culture and core values to the extent...

Published 19 Jan 2012 5:47 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: strategic recognition, performance management, retention, company culture, tony hsieh, values, christine fruechte, employee engagment

Global Recognition Stereotypes: Don’t Believe the Lie

Recognize This! – The power of employee recognition and appreciation knows no geographic or cultural boundaries. I hear time and again that “it’s different over there.” Or “They do things differently. They don’t have...

Published 17 Jan 2012 7:15 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: employee engagement, appreciation, values, asia/pacific, china daily, corporate culture, global recognition stereotypes

Retaining Employees * Better Pay or a Better Culture?

Recognize This! – Job seekers cite company culture as more important than pay. Does your culture entice star performers? Have you ever quit a job to take less pay? Some scoff at the idea, but after the years of fear, anxiety and overwork post-recession...

Published 16 Jan 2012 6:34 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: employee engagement, retention, appreciation, company culture, values, recession, employee value proposition, mission statement, steve ford

“Give Me My Bonus or I’ll Quit!”

Recognize This! – The entitlement saga continues with employees demanding a bonus as if it were compensation. I hoped it was an aberration, this idea of “Give me my bonus or I’ll sue.” Now US brokers are threatening to leave if...

Published 13 Jan 2012 9:01 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: employee engagement, performance management, retention, appreciation, annual performance review, end of year bonus

4 Reasons Why Culture Is More Important than Strategy

Recognize This! – “Strategy will only succeed if it is supported by the appropriate cultural attributes.” Late last year, Booz & Co. released research in Strategy +Business showing “Why Culture Is Key.” Of course, this...

Published 12 Jan 2012 6:49 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: employee engagement, strategy + business, strategic employee recognition, zappos, strategy, culture, winning with a culture of recognition, company alignment, wally bock

The ROI of Employee Recognition

Recognize This! – Intangible benefits are as important as tangible results in calculating recognition ROI. I recently had the opportunity to participate in an article in Premium Incentive Products magazine. Excerpts from “Beyond R.O.I.: Incentive...

Published 12 Jan 2012 2:04 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: employee engagement, strategic recognition, company culture, rewards and recognition program, roi, premium incentive products, SAAS

Is the Balance of Power Shifting to the Employee?

Recognize This! – Even if burnt-out employees aren’t ready to quit, they certainly are not delivering top-level performance any more. Since the recession began in earnest, employers first took actions to preserve the company – layoffs...

Published 10 Jan 2012 6:28 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: employee engagement, performance management, retention, appreciation, recognition, productivity, recession, forbes, unemployment, irwin kellner

7 Guidelines for Employee Engagement: Lessons from Stryker

Recognize This! – A desire to increase employee engagement is useless without commitment and follow-through. Gallup issued a brilliant case study of Stryker , a global medical devices company. Focusing on just one unit in New Jersey, the case study...

Published 9 Jan 2012 9:19 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: performance management, talent management, appreciation, engagement, employee surveys, executive sponsorship, culture, commitment, stryker, training

What to Do with Employee Data & Survey Results

Recognize This! – Linking employee data to business needs lets you get bottom-line value from survey results. How much employee data does your organization collect? If you’re like the majority of mid to large-sized organizations, quite a bit...

Published 5 Jan 2012 9:26 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: employee engagement, performance management, corporate executive board, employee surveys, rewards and recognition, business objectives, metrics, tracking, roi

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