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Top Retention Strategy: Strategic Employee Recognition

Recognise This! – A culture of recognition is one of the most powerful means of retaining top talent. In the last few months in my travels to lead workshops with clients and to present at various HR and strategy conferences around the world, I’m...

Published 15 May 2013 3:21 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: employee engagement, employee retention, company culture, turnover, organization culture, attrition

An “Effective” Culture Is in Your Hands. What Are You Doing about It?

Recognise This! – All employees own the company culture because their daily actions and behaviors impact how the culture is experienced by themselves and others. Culture. I write about it all the time , yet I never seem to unpack all the myriad...

Published 13 May 2013 1:14 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: company culture, values, organization culture, practices, vision, what is culture?

Intentions for Building and Sustaining a Strong Company Culture Will Fail without a Process to Back It Up

Recognise This! – Give all employees the tools and systems needed to reinforce your desired culture every day for everyone. Your company leadership makes a commitment to build a strong culture. They understand how powerful of a differentiator culture...

Published 18 Apr 2013 2:10 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: strategic recognition, employee recognition and reward, onboarding, company culture, social recognition, culture stewardship, peer recognition, sustaining culture over time

You Cannot Document Your Cultural DNA. You Must Live It.

Recognise This! – Your culture is alive. You must breathe life into it daily through timely recognition of those living your cultural DNA (your values). Today, I’d like to share with you a case study on the importance of values and how you...

Published 16 Apr 2013 4:49 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: employee recognition and reward, company values, company culture, core values, organization culture, recognise values, recognize values

LEGOs – Where Play Is Serious Business

Recognise This! – Culture and strategy must be in balance in an organisation to achieve the greatest business success. Harvard Business School recently issued a new business Case on The LEGO Group , makers of the famous toy plastic building blocks...

Published 1 Apr 2013 5:28 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: company culture, balance, company strategy, LEGO Group

If Engagement Is a State of Mind, How to Change Employees’ Minds

Recognise This! – You can’t ask people to become what they do not know or understand. At this stage, I think we can all agree that employee engagement is critical to organisation success. We can likely all also agree that employees are responsible...

Published 27 Mar 2013 10:36 AM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: employee engagement, company culture, educating employees on engagement, what is employee engagement?

“The Customer’s Always Right” vs. “Employees First”

Recognise This! – Create a strong, positive culture, then empower employees to carry that culture through every interaction, internally and externally. Your people create the heart of your organisation. “The customer’s always right”...

Published 17 Mar 2013 2:15 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: employee recognition and reward, company culture, organization culture, empowering employees, InterContinental Boston, InterContinental Hotels Group

How Do You Know How Your Company Culture Is Doing?

Recognise This! – You must have the data and reports on your culture, driven by regular, frequent input from every employee, to be able to proactively manage your company culture on an ongoing basis. How’s your company culture doing? Is it...

Published 11 Mar 2013 3:18 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: employee recognition and reward, company culture, winning with a culture of recognition, organization culture, manage company culture

Why CEOs Must Lead Organization Culture to Avoid Culture “Pockets”

Recognise This! – One consistent culture across an entire organisation relies on leadership and example setting by the CEO. Your CEO must set your company culture. He or she must demonstrate by example and reinforcement the culture they want to...

Published 5 Mar 2013 2:18 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: company culture, core values, organization culture, company valus, culture of happiness, culture of transparency, Qualtrics

Don’t Forget to Value Employees as Well as Compensate Them

Recognise This! – Employees need to know their efforts are noticed, recognised and valued as much as compensated as part of their job. Who in your organisation has the most direct impact on how your customers perceive the company? This, of course...

Published 25 Feb 2013 3:13 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: employee recognition and reward, company culture

5 Steps to Smooth the Merger & Acquisition Process through Strategic, Social Recognition

Recognise This! – Merging the people and the cultures of two organisations is the most difficult and crucial element of a M&A event. The long anticipated merger of two major US airlines is now official. American Airlines and US Airways will...

Published 15 Feb 2013 2:32 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: strategic recognition, company values, company culture, social recognition, core values, acquisition, American Airlines, employee recogntion and rewards, M&A, merger, US Airways

3 Common Steps for Company Culture Change

Recognise This! – Wise CEOs monitor company culture and proactively manage it. Regular readers know I enjoy the weekly “Corner Office” column in the Sunday New York Times. I was catching up on a few columns and noticed similar themes...

Published 14 Feb 2013 3:07 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: company culture, recognition and rewards, organization culture, proacitve culture management

Data Is Just Information Unless You Put It to Work

Recognise This! – Gathering data on people management processes does little good unless you use it to ask the right questions and solve the right problems. “Big data” is the latest buzz word entering HR lexicon. I’ve used it myself...

Published 12 Feb 2013 4:25 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: performance management, culture management, company values, talent management, company culture, HR, core values, people management, big data, organziation culture, data revolution, nalytics, SAP

Culture Drives Employee Engagement, Not the Other Way Around

Recognise This! – Executives are still missing the mark on understanding what employees need if they’re going to choose to engage fully in their work and achieving the organisation’s objectives. I greatly enjoyed the summary of Deloitte’s...

Published 8 Feb 2013 2:46 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: company values, recognition, deloitte, company culture, leadership, strategy, core values, organization culture, executive

The Negative Side of Leadership Influence on Company Culture

Recognise This! – Leaders must promote, encourage and demonstrate themselves an attitude of appreciation and support to create a positive, engaging culture of recognition. Senior executives have the most influence over culture. Yes, all employees...

Published 7 Feb 2013 5:46 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: company values, company culture, leadership, core values, CEO, executive, organziation culture

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