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3 Lessons for Employee Engagement through Recognition from XL Axiata

Recognise This! – Learning from others’ success can enhance our own efforts for engagement. I enjoy Abhishek Mittal’s Mumblr blog . Abhishek is a senior consultant for Towers Watson based in Singapore. Recently he shared a case study...

Published 1 May 2013 4:39 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: strategic recognition, meaningful work, towers watson, employee recognition and rewards, behavior-based recognition, hishek Mittal, Progress Principle, XL Axiata

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

3 Keys to Effective, Impactful Employee Recognition

Recognise This – The act of recognition alone isn’t enough. You must also pay close attention to what you say to recognise or praise others, how you say it and when you say it. Employee recognition done right is easy, but it’s not simple...

Published 2 Apr 2013 6:16 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: strategic recognition, recognition done right, employee recognition and rewards, annual awards

Why Discretionary Effort Matters

Recognise This! – We all can do more – if we wanted to. The key is inspiring everyone to do so. This week I’m at Engage, our annual customer forum to which we invite customers to come, learn from each other and us, and help set our roadmap...

Published 20 Mar 2013 3:35 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: strategic recognition, meaningful work, roi, employee engagmeent, employee recognition and rewards, discretionary effort, making progress at work

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

What You Can Still Learn from Bad Surveys

Recognise This! – Surveys can tell us interesting information; even poorly constructed ones also have deeper lessons. I’m a believer in the value of surveys. I really am. But poorly constructed or terribly worded surveys send me off. They...

Published 6 Feb 2013 2:53 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: strategic recognition, employee recognition and reward, performance, productivity, social recognition, feeling good at work, polls, surveys

How Fiefdoms Destroy Company Culture (and What You Can Do about It)

Recognise This! – Allowing local leaders to create fiefdoms for their own advancement seriously impacts organisational culture strength and validity. This morning I had breakfast with a friend, Martha. As friends do over coffee and pastry, we filled...

Published 31 Jan 2013 4:51 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: strategic recognition, employee recognition and reward, company values, company culture, social recognition, core values, organizational culture

Employee Engagement Requires Commitment from Both Sides

Recognise This! – The ROI of employee engagement is significant and shouldn’t be left on the table out of pride. In my post today on Compensation Café , I shared lessons I learned on yesterday’s excellent HR.com-sponsored webinar...

Published 29 Jan 2013 9:36 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: employee engagement, strategic recognition, retention, compensation cafe, globoforce, social recognition, webinar, employee recognition and rewards

Speak the Language of Your CEO or Your Project Goals Will Get Lost in Translation

Recognise This! – Translating the benefits of employee recognition to bottom-line results will help secure the executive sponsorship you need for programme success. Yesterday, I wrote about why CEOs and CFOs should care about employee engagement...

Published 16 Jan 2013 8:41 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: employee engagement, strategic recognition, retention, employee turnover, employee recognition and rewards, bottom-line results, CEO support, CFO support

Important Employee Recognition Technique – Pay Attention & Respond!

Recognise This! – Simply responding to team member emails or information sharing communicates your recognition of their effort and work. During the last five years or so that I’ve been blogging about employee recognition and rewards , I’ve...

Published 14 Jan 2013 3:38 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: strategic recognition, feedback, social recognition, employee recognition and rewards, employee communications, respect in the workplace

4 Steps to Happiness at Work

Recognise This! – We can choose to be happier (and more engaged) at work. These steps help. Are you a happy person, generally? Do you tend to have an optimistic, “glass is half full” demeanor and approach to life? If so, does that tend...

Published 9 Jan 2013 3:52 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: employee engagement, strategic recognition, social recognition, happiness at work, employee recognition and rewards, gratitude, meaninful work

The No. 1 Reason We All Hate the Annual Performance Review

Recognise This! – The 5 top drivers of stress in the annual performance appraisal process are easily overcome through crowdsourcing with social recognition. Why does the traditional annual performance review continue to fail as both a performance...

Published 7 Jan 2013 3:57 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: strategic recognition, social recognition, annual performance review, 360 degree review, employee recognition and rewards, annual performance appraisal, crowdsource performance review

You Can’t Be a Team Member without a Team

Recognise This! – Evaluating team contribution and performance is as important as evaluating individual performance. Today in his always excellent Three Star Leadership blog , management guru Wally Bock said this: “When you review performance...

Published 19 Dec 2012 8:04 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: strategic recognition, employee recognition and reward, performance review, performance evaluation, annual review, annual evaluation, performanc emanagement

Would Your Poor Employee Engagement Turn Off Investors?

Recognize This! – Employee engagement is a good indicator of company strength and future for investors. How effective are the UK efforts to make employee engagement a nationwide concern through its Engage for Success initiative? This article of...

Published 5 Dec 2012 8:37 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: employee engagement, strategic recognition, employee recognition and rewards, investment

1 Step to End Analysis Paralysis and Finally Get Something Done

Recognize This! – Without clear, meaningful, intuitive guiding principles, it’s hard to make quick decisions that can keep your organization moving at the top of your market. The Disease: Analysis paralysis – becoming stuck in the thinking...

Published 14 Nov 2012 2:25 PM by DerekIrvineGloboforce

Filed under: strategic recognition, company values, core values, analysis paralysis, employee recognition and rewards, how to make decisions

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