What leadership commitment do you hold to your organization that keeps you there?
The Rise of the Post-Covid Leader: Soft is the New Tough
We have long understood that a poor manager is the most significant factor in an employee’s decision to resign. Yet, a study conducted by Careerbuilder reports that 58 percent of managers said they didn’t receive any management training. How can that be? The top factor of an employee’s job satisfaction level is the quality of their relationship … Continue reading The Rise of the Post-Covid Leader: Soft is the New Tough
From Workforce Revolution™ to Organizational Alliance : Re-engage a Dis-illusioned Workforce by Shifting Focus
From our previous articles, you took action and burned the ships as you pursue a culture of purposeful recognition withing your workforce of the individual and valuing the individual. Now it’s time to pull everyone together to move forward toward a common goal. Focus on the External With a “Burn the Ships” commitment lived … Continue reading From Workforce Revolution™ to Organizational Alliance : Re-engage a Dis-illusioned Workforce by Shifting Focus
From Workforce Revolution™ to Organizational Alliance: Re-engage a Dis-illusioned Workforce by Recognizing the Individual
What makes up the culture in your organization? People. If you’re going to align and re-engage your workforce, you must recognize and speak to the individual, not just the masses. In our last blog, we discussed that we must be willing to "burn the ships" in order to create alignment within our organization. … Continue reading From Workforce Revolution™ to Organizational Alliance: Re-engage a Dis-illusioned Workforce by Recognizing the Individual
From Workforce Revolution™ to Organizational Alliance : Taking Action to Re-engage a Disillusioned Workforce
In our last post, we left you with the question of how you get everyone focused in one direction within your organization. How do you get your workforce to engage in their work, and creatively, and proactively solve the issues that move your company and everyone in it forward? As you work to help … Continue reading From Workforce Revolution™ to Organizational Alliance : Taking Action to Re-engage a Disillusioned Workforce
From Workforce Revolution™ to Organizational Alliance: Re-engaging a Disillusioned Workforce
The Workforce Revolution™ has begun. Awakened by the reveille of employee discontent, heralded by a chorus of resignations and a massive recruitment problem, companies found themselves ill-equipped to re-engage the troops. Leaders struggled to keep everyone in formation while the remaining loyal yet burned-out workforce struggled to carry the load of their AWOL colleagues. Initially, when the Workforce … Continue reading From Workforce Revolution™ to Organizational Alliance: Re-engaging a Disillusioned Workforce
Lasting Peace in the Workforce Revolution™ Part 3: What Now? Build Trust That Will Last
It’s easy to go through the motions and re-build trust with your employees with the hidden agenda of things going back to the way they were “pre-COVID”. If you haven’t yet, you need to rethink your position, or, as I mentioned in my last article, your employees will revolt. You need to rebuild trust, a trust … Continue reading Lasting Peace in the Workforce Revolution™ Part 3: What Now? Build Trust That Will Last
Lasting Peace in the Workforce Revolution™ Part 2: How to Build Trust for Alignment, Engagement, and Retention
Alignment starts with trust. Building trust is a key ingredient to the success of any relationship, and this doesn’t stop when you walk into work. As leaders, we need to stop viewing our relationships with our employees as “just business”. It’s personal. Your employees are making it personal, and you better too before it’s too … Continue reading Lasting Peace in the Workforce Revolution™ Part 2: How to Build Trust for Alignment, Engagement, and Retention
Lasting Peace in the Workforce Revolution™ Part 1: It’s Time to Build Trust for Alignment, Engagement, and Retention
The post-Covid workforce is at odds with leadership and it’s personal. It's obvious when you see the impact on retention. We as leaders let them down. In a time of great uncertainty and fear – in all aspects of their lives – our employees worked long hours under the most challenging conditions. Yet, communication was … Continue reading Lasting Peace in the Workforce Revolution™ Part 1: It’s Time to Build Trust for Alignment, Engagement, and Retention
Who’s the REAL Enemy in the Talent War?
As we continue our conversation about the talent war, we shift gears to discover who the real enemy really is.