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The Missing Piece in Your Company Culture Strategy
Leadership has the power to influence culture and plays a critical role in the sustained success of an organization. Good leaders have the ability to create a positive culture and optimally motivate their people, while poor leadership drains motivational outlooks and can poison a culture. It’s important to keep in mind that leadership’s impact on cultivating culture gives companies a competitive advantage over other organizations. Today’s modern organizations can not afford to ignore the influence of leadership has on organizational culture. Great companies intentionally invest in leadership development as a viable business strategy and a means to creating a healthy and engaged culture.
Four Reasons You Need to be Thinking About Goal Alignment
Your organization’s greatest asset is its employees, who make up the mindshare, and knowledge base to serve your current and future customers. But how do you measure that asset?
The Expert Goal Setting Strategy Your Company Needs
Setting and achieving goals can be a difficult task for anyone, even the most successful leaders. Using the Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) method makes achieving goals possible, helps keep the team on track, and ensures conversations and adjustments are effectively made throughout the pursuit of the goal. Top companies such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Uber use OKRs. This method consists of two aspects of a goal: objectives and key results.
OKRs and Their Influence on Employee Engagement
According to Gallup’s 2018 survey, 53% of workers would place themselves in the "not engaged" category, meaning they may be generally satisfied but are not cognitively and emotionally connected to their work and workplace. While these employees may still be executing their duties, they’re likely not performing to the best of their ability and certainly not making a significant contribution to the purpose and culture of the organization.
When Performance Drops: How to Help Your Team Discern Their Motivational Outlook
“When you look at people who are successful, you will find that they aren't the people who are motivated, but have consistency in their motivation.”
— Arsene Wenger
Earlier this year, The Golden State Warriors head coach, Steve Kerr, became one of the only coaches in the National Basketball Association (NBA) history to coach 5 All-Stars from the previous season, during a professional basketball game. However, even with those 5 All-Stars playing consistently every game for the past month and a half, the two-time defending NBA champions are struggling, and Steve Kerr is concerned about his team heading into the playoffs next month.
Achieving Performance Flow: The Most Dynamic Phase of Performance
“You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.”
What’s Your Strongest Leadership Quality? [Quiz]
Leaders wear many hats. From planning and setting goals to monitoring success and providing feedback, a leader’s to-do list is often lengthy but great leaders are always looking for a place to improve. Do you know what your best leadership quality is? Take this quiz and discover if your strongest practice is preparing, envisioning, initiating, assessing or responding and learn how you can work on the others!
Proceed with Caution: How to Navigate the Most Unpredictable Phase of Performance
Dr. Don Meyer, in a Huffington Post article entitled, So Near, and Yet, So Far chronicled the heroic story of Florence Chadwick, and American Swimmer who attempted to become the first woman to swim across the Catalina Channel, a 21 mile journey off the coast of California, between Catalina Island and Palos Verde, California.
Celebrate Employee Appreciation Day by Fueling Employee Work Passion
Last month, our culture celebrated Valentine’s Day. I was struck by how busy the local flower stand was on my way home from work that Tuesday evening. It’s no surprise many people (mostly men) were scrambling, last minute to pick up a token of love for their significant other. Truth be told, I decided to pull in and join the masses, by picking up a few gifts for some of the special people in my life. As I shuffled my way around the maze of flowers, bumping into other desperate souls, I thought to myself, what makes this day so special? Why do we celebrate love this one day a year? How do we continually keep the passion alive for the things that we care about the most in our lives?
Confronting the Challenges of Performance: How to Manage the Lows in Pursuit of Your Objectives
“Life is Difficult.” proclaimed best selling author, Scott Peck, in the opening line of his book, The Road Less Traveled. This concise statement, sums up the great journey of life, with simplicity and truth. In fact, any worthy journey is filled with setbacks, challenges, questions and doubts — particularly if you have a specific destination in mind. The great opportunity we have in this human experience is to confront these challenges with an authentic investigation of our ability to press on toward the prize, and our energy to continue on in the pursuit of our desired destination.
