Thought Leaders
6 Steps to Finding an Executive Coach Who Fits Your Culture (and Fixes Your Blind Spots)
Hiring an executive coach for your team? Follow these practical steps to ensure you find the best fit for your leaders.
Employee Performance
Building a Business
It’s Time to Prioritize Regular Performance Reviews — Here’s Why Reviews Are Essential for Employee and Company Growth
Regular check-ins, focused discussions about goals and progress and constructive feedback build a thriving work environment.
Human Resources
This ‘Cutting-Edge’ Strategy Used By Meta and Google Is Helping Leaders Keep Young Employees Motivated
Archer Chiang, founder and CEO of Giftpack, breaks down the method that can improve results and retention.
By Amanda Breen
Thought Leaders
Tough Feedback Can Really Sting. Here’s How to Take It With Grace and Turn It Into Power.
When we receive tough feedback, our first inclination is usually to recoil. But, if you follow these five steps, you'll enjoy receiving critical feedback more than ever before.
Entrepreneurs
3 Common Mistakes That Are Destroying Your Productivity
Learn how you can optimize your mental performance for productivity by avoiding these three common mistakes.
Business News
Forget Employee Feedback, ‘Feedforward’ Is the Latest Workplace Trend — If You’re Not Doing It, You Might Be Irrelevant Already
Stop dreading your yearly performance reviews and start becoming irreplaceable.
By Amanda Breen
Thought Leaders
What’s the Actual Cost of Unproductive Employees? It’s More Than You Think.
In the business world, unproductive employees can be like pebbles in your shoe. They may not be immediately noticeable, but the impact on your organization's performance can be serious.
Thought Leaders
5 Common Reasons Your Best Employees Have Stopped Performing — And How to Fix It
There are many reasons why an employee's performance may have dropped. As a manager, it's your duty to find out why.
By Chris Kille
Thought Leaders
Science Has Confirmed That Honesty Really Is the Best Policy in the Workplace
Tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
By Jon Levy
Thought Leaders
Want Your Employees to Be High Performers? Tie Goals to Rewards Like Extra Days Off or Cold Hard Cash.
Follow these tips to align rewards with goals to achieve high performance.
Thought Leaders
4 Tips to Take Struggling Employees to the Top of Their Game
When an employee is performing poorly, your first question isn't so much why the problem has occurred as what you're going to do about it.
By Andre Lavoie
Thought Leaders
3 Reports Every Manager Should Have
Making sure your employees are in alignment with your organization's goals will be easier if you track their progress with these 3 reports.
Thought Leaders
3 Changes Your Company Should Make to Performance Management in 2017
Managers and employees alike are stressing because they're about to have their dreaded year-end performance review. Fix that.
Building a Business
10 Ways to Appeal to the Next Wave of Workers: Generation Z
Flexible scheduling and open feedback loops build trust with incoming employees. Companies shouldn't be surprised if older workers appreciate those changes, too.
By Deep Patel
Building a Business
3 Steps to Help Employees Understand Your Objectives and Expectations
When you set objectives, your job is to clearly relay your expectations to the employee.
Thought Leaders
The Bedrock of Performance Management? Communication of Acceptable Behavior.
Effective leaders manage performance by continually reinforcing their criteria for success.
By Phil La Duke
Thought Leaders
6 Rules For Effective Feedback
It is not whether it's positive or negative that determines its quality, it's how it's delivered. Wanna help? Do it this way.
By Phil La Duke
Entrepreneurs
Exert Yourself for the Health of Your Bottom Line — and Your Bottom
Founders are obsessive about optimization. Exercise is hands down the best way to optimize future personal performance. Do it.
By Mike Loomis
Entrepreneurs
Employees Don’t Get Enough Sleep, and It’s Your Fault
One problem may be that 42 percent of U.S. employees surveyed said they didn't take a single vacation day in 2014.
Building a Business
Unhappy Employees Are Costing You: 4 Lessons From Denmark
'The Little Mermaid' and Hans Christian Andersen are hardly Denmark's greatest successes. Actually, that country could teach 'no-vacation nation' a thing or two.
Building a Business
Stop Treating Your Employees Like Mushrooms
Consistent communication keeps employees from feeling that they're kept in the dark and fed, well, you know.
By Beth Miller
Thought Leaders
Where Have All the Good Employees Gone? Oops, You Promoted Them.
Four things to consider when promoting employees to leadership.
Building a Business
7 Insights From Psychology Known to Boost Workplace Productivity
The more you can see the job from the employee's perspective, the better you'll understand how to get more done.
By Adam Toren
Thought Leaders
Are You Building Leaders for Tomorrow?
Say you've identified an 'A' player on your team. What steps do you take to develop leadership?
Entrepreneurs
We Gave a Drink Designed to Help You Relax to Our Stressed-Out Staff. Here’s What We Thought.
Just Chill is a sparking beverage that has the same active ingredient as one found in green tea.
Building a Business
Why Tech Is HR’s Friend, Not Its Enemy
Tech frees up HR professionals to be the living, breathing humans employees want to share their concerns with.
By Matt Straz
Thought Leaders
7 Surprising Questions Great Leaders Ask
The more thoughtfully these questions are answered, the better leaders and team members become.
By Kent Julian