Thank you for reading my latest blog in the Culture Hacker series. Let’s continue our discussion from last week on how to evolve from a traditional performance management paradigm to one of enablement and empowerment. This week we will consider how to enable our people to perform optimally. Enablement requires you to provide your people with the [...]
Welcome to the next installment in the Culture Hacker blog series. Please check out my previous blogs to learn more about the importance of reprogramming your company culture to improve and elevate the employee experience. Right from the start, I want to suggest that if all we are doing is managing performance, we are wasting the many [...]
Welcome back to the Culture Hacker blog series, which examines the cultural mechanisms that influence the mindset and attitude of your associates. If you haven’t read the previous blogs in this series, please check them out, because they establish a foundation and tell a story about what you as a leader should be focused on today. [...]
Welcome back to the fifth blog in our Culture Hacker series. This blog continues the discussion about onboarding. By doing a better job in the first 60 days of a new employee’s career with you, you can stop wasting your investment in new people and their talent by keeping them longer. Last time we focused on day one – the [...]
Welcome back to my fourth blog in our 2016 Culture Hacker series. Last month we discussed your selection strategy, so now let’s talk about on-boarding and orientation. I am very passionate about the importance of both of these topics, so I am going to split it into two blogs. In this first blog I am going [...]
Welcome to my 3rd blog in our 2016 Culture Hacker series. It’s time to talk about selection. One of the most important roles you have as a manager is to select the right people to be a part of your team. Although controversial in his thinking, I found a quote from Italian Philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli that [...]
Welcome to the 2nd blog in our Culture Hacker series for 2016. In this blog, I will discuss the importance of values and the fact that they are not some philosophical BS (which are the exact words I have heard used on more than one occasion). While they are dismissed by many managers, I am here [...]
Creating a meaningful and effective culture is not just an HR thing—it is a business thing that every manager needs to be involved in. Welcome to my Culture Hacker blog series for 2016! Each month I’ll share more insights into how you as a manager or executive can elevate or reprogram your company code to [...]
