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Welcome back to the Culture Hacker blog series. Today, I want to discuss an important communication tool that is unfortunately rendered ineffective too often, and that is the traditional meeting. American author Dave Barry wrote, "If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will [...]
Today we are going to talk about career development, the thing most employees want and need to talk about, but few organizations and managers seem to make a priority. Many organizations and executives understand the importance of career planning, but don’t designate resources or take time to help plan a future for their staff, especially [...]
Decades of research have brought attention to extrinsic motivation, or the carrot and stick model. We know if/then rewards will work for simple tasks when validation is offered for why the task is important and people are encouraged to complete the tasks in their own manner. However, we also know if/then rewards suppress creativity by [...]
The Reality of Employee Engagement According to Deloitte’s 2014 Global Human Capital Trends research, 78% of business leaders rate employee engagement as an issue that is “urgent or important.” Just one year later, this statistic has risen to 87%. A disengaged, unhappy employee is the last person any of us want to ask to make [...]
