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What You Need To Know About Creating Employee Engagement in Your Organization
I recently read an interview in Fast Company on the dismal state of employee engagement in the American workforce. Jim Harter, Ph.D., heads up Gallup’s research on employee engagement. Using 263 research studies across 192 organizations in 49 industries and 34...
If Decisions Were Easy, You Wouldn’t Be Paid to Make Them: Why Your Decision Making is Critical to Success
One of my first managers once told me, “The perfect is the enemy of the good.” That saying has stuck with me to this day. Essentially, it means that if you waste too much time trying to perfect your work, you can end up being less productive. It is better to do three...
You Can’t Do Everything Yourself: Learn The Importance of Delegating
Delegation is at the heart of what managers do. One of the first lessons frontline managers learn is that they will be more effective and get more work done if they delegate than if they try to do everything themselves. Letting go, planning, communicating, and...
Why You Should Think Twice Before Jumping On The Holacracy Bandwagon
Holacracy certainly sounds good on the surface, but like any business decision, should be approached with skepticism.
The Unique and Critical Role of the CEO
Across all sectors and industries, CEOs face tremendous pressure. They’re often expected to create more profit with fewer resources and deliver more results in less time while meeting rising shareholder expectations.
4 Tips To Host Better Performance Management Meetings
The annual performance review is dead. Or at least it should be!! Not only are these meetings stressful for both the manager and the employee, they are ineffective for measuring the successes or failures of the staff member, or for encouraging positive change....
How to Send Your CEOs On Vacation – And Why They Need It
Can the CEO ever really take a break or are they always on duty? The CEO is at the pinnacle of the organization and is solely accountable to the board of directors for the entire operations of the organization.
What Many Fail to Remember When Flattening an Organization
Flattening the structure may work for some organizations because they have too many layers, but it’s more important for organizations to prioritize…
Second Effective Managers TM Partner Consulting Firm Announced
Dwight Mihalicz, President of Effective ManagerTM announced to-day the signing of an agreement with Canadian People Management Inc, a Canadian management consulting firm.
Organization Design 101 Part 4: The Consequences of Too Few Layers in Your Organization
While too many layers in an organization is a typical result of organic growth, too few strata tends to be a less frequently seen – but still detrimental – issue. Most organizations have a combination of the two problems and tend to have pockets of the organization that are missing strata.