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Company Culture after M&A

Recognize This! – Merging cultures and is as critical as merging “the books.” Be sure to give it the attention it deserves. Earlier, I offered a review of the book Building a Magnetic Culture. Nowhere is that more difficult – or...

Published 29 Feb 2012 8:43 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: performance management, retention, recognition, engagement, strategic objectives, building a magnetic culture, hrzone, mergers and acquisitons

Building a Magnetic Culture – A Review and Recommendation

Recognize This! – Great books on organization culture are few and far between. Building a Magnetic Culture is a must read. Readers of my blog know that organization culture is passion of mine – especially how to build a culture of recognition...

Published 29 Feb 2012 2:09 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: retention, appreciation, recognition, engagement, values, culture, eric mosley, winning with a culture of recognition, building a magnetic culture, kevin sheridan

What Wells Fargo Gets Right: Know Your Employees, Customers and Business

Recognize This! – Knowing your business, defining your culture and – critically – ensuring every employee understands both are fundamental to success. Banks and bankers have been much in the news the last few years, usually taking the...

Published 24 Feb 2012 3:00 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: employee engagement, performance management, appreciation, company culture, values, business objectives, forbes magazine, wells fargo

Core Values and Belief Systems * Lessons from The Corner Office

Recognize This! – Without a foundational “belief system” in your organization, you cannot align employees with your goals and objectives. Regular readers of Recognize This! know that the New York Times “Corner Office” column...

Published 23 Feb 2012 2:19 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: employee engagement, strategic recognition, talent management, company culture, leadership, alignment, core values, steve stoute

Hermes CEO on Employee Engagement and Brand

Recognize This! – Communication and “Face Time” are critical to building employee engagement and strong brands. If I asked you what industry you think would be the most difficult to create an environment in which employees would want...

Published 22 Feb 2012 6:52 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: employee engagement, leadership, communication, culture, motivation, teamwork, social recognition, brand, bob chaves, hermes

Find Your Talent before You Accidentally Let Them Go

Recognize This! – Every organization has critical, but hidden, talent. Finding and utilizing them creates significant competitive advantage. The U.S. sports world has been abuzz with “Linsanity” – hype about the excellent performance...

Published 21 Feb 2012 7:05 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: talent management, retention, competitive advantage, strategic employee recognition, annual performance review, appreication, jason corsello, jeremy lin, moneyball

Valentine’s Day, Mistakes, Bonuses, & Seats at the Table at Compensation Cafe

A few of my colleagues teased me that I didn’t write a post about “loving your employees” on Valentine’s Day earlier this week. Indeed, I did! But the teasing reminded me I haven’t shared with the Recognize This! community...

Published 17 Feb 2012 3:35 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: strategic recognition, performance management, appreciation, company culture, compensation cafe, employee rewards

Employee Engagement Round-Up

Recognize This! –CEO leadership is crucial to creating work environments in which employees will choose to engage. In the last couple days, I featured very interesting research on the difference between Employee Engagement and Sustainable Employee...

Published 16 Feb 2012 8:59 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: employee engagement, performance management, talent management, retention, leadership, people management, global strategic recognition, kenexa, bersin, nbri, sustainable employee engagement

Employee Engagement on the Decline Globally

Recognize This! – Employees worldwide are disengaging at work, leaving organizations at a competitive disadvantage. Recent research out of Kenexa is showing employee engagement on the decline globally. “EEI scores declined, not only in the...

Published 15 Feb 2012 5:39 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: employee engagement, performance management, competitive advantage, disengagement, kenexa

2 Factors Critical to Sustainable Employee Engagement: Enablement & Energy

Recognize This! – Measuring energy and enablement make it possible to ensure your employee engagement levels are sustained. Abhishek Mittal , a Towers Watson management consultant based in Singapore, is one of my go-to sources for on-point research...

Published 14 Feb 2012 8:20 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: employee engagement, abhishek mittal, values, culture, eric mosley, respect, global strategic recognition, enablement, energy, performance managament, sustainable engagement

“Magic Metric” for Real-time Performance

Recognize This! – An easily understood metric for successful performance clarifies roles and responsibilities for all. In Fistful of Talent last week, Steve Gifford tackled the ever-present topic of (my take) “what metric should we use to...

Published 13 Feb 2012 8:49 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: culture of appreciation, employee engagement, performance management, company values, fistful of talent, peer to peer recognition programs, steve gifford

3 Surprising Findings from Latest Globoforce/SHRM Employee Recognition Tracker

Recognize This! – If the vast majority of your employees are dissatisfied with your recognition program, perhaps it’s time to change the program. I greatly enjoyed leading a webinar discussion yesterday with Evren Esen of SHRM on the results...

Published 10 Feb 2012 6:27 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: employee engagement, performance management, culture management, retention, recruitment, shrm, webinar, evren esen, global strategic recognition, management challenges

HR Lessons I Learned from GE Super Bowl Ads

Recognize This! – Celebrating the deeper and broader value of what your employees contribute to every day makes work meaningful. As most readers of my blog know, I’m Irish. Though I tend to divide my time between our Dublin and Boston offices...

Published 8 Feb 2012 6:57 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: meaningful work, recognition, engagement, values, culture, general electric, super bowl commercials

Ask Derek: Employee Rewards for Call Center Employees?

Recognize This! -In recognition and reward programs for Call Center employees, be sure you are reinforcing desired behaviors and outcomes, not just results. Occasionally, I receive questions through the “Email Derek” button in the upper-right...

Published 7 Feb 2012 6:57 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: culture of appreciation, employee engagement, performance management, strategic employee recognition, zappos, incentives, company culture, social recognition, core values

Employee Engagement Task Force Update: Nita Clarke Video

Recognize This! – Employee engagement most certainly is not something else you must do. It must be primary focus to gain greatest competitive advantage and success in the marketplace. I’m quite impressed by the level of commitment in Britain...

Published 6 Feb 2012 2:02 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: employee engagement, competitive advantage, workforce management, culture, motivation, David MacLeod, Nita Clarke, people management

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