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Infographic: Employee Engagement and the Hourly Employee 20 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
We talk a lot about employee engagement–and we write about it, too. Until today, we haven’t really catered to the visual learners in our audience. So, here’s to you visual learners. This infographic c...
Four Domains of Leadership Intelligence 15 Aug 2013 | 03:54 am
As we have worked with leaders for nearly two decades in conducting 360-degree feedback surveys and other assessments, we have found that the indicators of leadership intelligence can be grouped into ...
Giving as Good as I Got: What to do after you receive your 360 feedback 9 Aug 2013 | 08:12 pm
My husband and I were taking a walk the other night. I was telling him all about the feedback I had recently received from my 360-degree feedback survey. Suddenly he stopped, pulled out his phone and ...
Employees Say the Darndest Things 7 Aug 2013 | 01:20 am
One of the many overflowing fountains of entertainment in our office is a selection of highly amusing open-ended employee survey responses. With a database of over 12 million individual responses, we...
Your Coworkers Might be Killing You 30 Jul 2013 | 11:05 pm
Each of us has worked with at least one jerk at some point in our careers. Maybe you were unfortunate enough to be managed by a tyrannical and unethical 40-something man—still living with his mother—...
Our 360-degree Feedback Contract 25 Jul 2013 | 07:00 pm
Here’s something that most people don’t consider when they take a 360-degree feedback survey: raters expect to see results based on their feedback. When we participate in a personal 360 survey, we con...
Stop Wasting Your Money on Employee Satisfaction 24 Jul 2013 | 02:44 am
I have often been guilty of using the phrase, “There’s no such thing as a happy non-performer” when discussing the idea that basic human nature is to be disappointed when performing poorly. In all ho...
Generic Traits Don’t Work for Leadership—or 360-Degree Feedback 10 Jul 2013 | 07:29 pm
When I received my copy of Inc. Magazine’s June issue, the cover quickly caught my attention: “7 Traits of True Leaders” As I read through the articles in this issue, I noticed that the feature artic...
Happiness vs. Employee Engagement 3 Jul 2013 | 02:21 am
Shawn Achor’s book, “The Happiness Advantage,” takes an in-depth look at the way happiness impacts people in the workplace. Much of his research and suggestions have a direct connection with employe...
Building a Leadership Culture: The difference between leaders and managers 27 Jun 2013 | 06:50 am
Leaders are a causal force—they cause things to happen that were not going to happen without their influence. They are future oriented and they envision possibilities that are often discontinuous with...