You witness a friend of yours suddenly falling to the ground. Before you get to him, a stranger rushes up to him and grabs him by the neck. First thoughts? — Suspicion! The stranger must be chocking your friend. You…
Make Any Change a Change for the Better
Change is inevitable. We cannot control every change happening around us, but what we can do is work on our attitude and how we react to it. We either choose to embrace the fact that change happens or be stubborn…
Designing and Implementing an Effective Retention Program
The major challenge of finding skilled workers among young people continues to be prominent among employers as the number of adults heading towards retirement increases. Studies reveal that the greatest challenge of 85% HR executives is recruitment and retention of…
Unnatural Leadership: Going Against Intuition and Experience to Develop Ten New Leadership Instincts
If we had been Wiley’s editor we probably would have stopped with the cover title and forgotten the subhead. It really slowed us down. Didn’t put us off but definitely slowed us down. It seemed to go against everything logical…
How to Make the Most of Corporate Training
Let’s say, you are a senior executive in a service company, and you want to improve customer satisfaction rates by boning up employees. What do you do? Right, set up corporate training. Yes, it will cost you a pretty penny,…
If Asked to Do Something Illegal or Unethical, How Should You Act?
Working means fulfilling your staff member service instructions and accomplishing tasks your boss assigns to you. But while most of the tasks are just everyday routine chores, some commands may put you in a double bind. Moreover, in cases, when…
Performance-based Reward System as Nucor Steel Recipe of Productivity
There are just a few big steel companies left in the US, and Nucor Steel is just one of them achieving $4.5 billion in sales. The enterprise is a job site for over 7 thousand non-union workers. To stay in…
Why Future Belongs to Decentralized Organizations
It has been proven time and again that centralized organizations, which utilize strict hierarchy show worse operation results than the ones with the decentralized structure. While at the dawn of capitalism centralization of management was a necessary precondition for success,…
Foster Change Champions If You’re Lucky to Have Ones in Your Company
Whenever you analyze the successful changes in an organization or team, you most definitely will figure out that they were driven by someone who believed they had been on a mission to reform their working environment. It could be a…
The Dangers of 360 Performance Appraisal Concept
The basic idea of 360 Performance Appraisal involves getting performance feedback not only from your ‘boss’ but from employees, customers and everyone who you get to work with as well. This, of course, does make a lot of sense. It…