7 Smart Ways to Increase Employee Productivity
Here are 7 smart ways to get the best out of your employees by boosting their productivity levels.
Retaining Talent In A Challenging Economy
in Employee Workforce, Featured, Recruiting Strategies, Sustain Social Biz, Talent Management/by The Wejungo TeamIn this highly competitive market for capable employees, employers need to consider fresh ways to motivate and retain their best performers. Truly accomplished staff is hard to find and even harder to keep. Provide enough perks, promote enough benefits, and soon employees will see these incentives as essentials. They become so core to the work experience that the employee can’t imagine leaving them behind for a new employer.
It’s Time to Redefine the Rules of Employee Engagement
in Career Resources, Employee Workforce, Featured, Talent Management/by The Wejungo TeamIn an era where employee engagement is a top concern, yet levels of engagement remain stagnant at best, it’s time to rethink the way we actually interact with our employees. Here are four ways we structure our employee feedback processes so they model true employee engagement.
8 Detailed Examples Of Giving Employee Feedback
in Career Resources, Employee Workforce, Featured, Talent Management/by The Wejungo TeamIt’s amazing how much psychology and subtleties are involved in giving feedback. While some of this might seem like overkill, it’s really not. People are more sensitive than you might think, so it’s important to be compassionate when giving your feedback. Here are 8 specific examples of giving employee feedback.
Stay Connected: How Everyday Leaders Engage People
in Employee Workforce, Featured, Grow Your Biz, Talent Management/by The Wejungo TeamCreating a fully engaged team has a real impact on your results. Organizations in the upper echelons of employee engagement beat their counterparts in productivity, profitability, and customer ratings — in some cases by more than 20 percent. They have lower absenteeism, less shrinkage, fewer accidents, and better quality. An engaged workforce always comes back to culture, and culture always comes down to leadership at every level of your organization. Here are nine things to do every day that keep your team providing the discretionary effort you need to thrive.
If you had it to do over again, what would you do differently?
in Career Resources, Featured, Talent Management/by The Wejungo TeamIf you had it to do over again, what would you do differently-if anything? Every high performing salesperson and sales leader most likely has used this phrase to increase their professionalism. Have you? During the past 18 years of working with and training sales managers around the world this phrase is one of the most powerful lessons I believe we pass on to our clients, but it leads to additional unexpected benefits as well.
9 Ways Great Leaders Demonstrate Real Authenticity
in Career Resources, Entrepreneurship, Featured, Talent Management/by The Wejungo TeamWouldn’t it be wonderful to live a truly authentic life? To have the respect of your family and co-workers, to be well liked, to be trusted by all, to make your workplace and home a better place to be, and maybe even leave the world a better place when you are no longer here? Lucky for us, becoming truly authentic, although difficult, is possible. Here are the top 9 ways leaders demonstrate their true authenticity that may help you in your journey to becoming truly authentic yourself.
Do You Have What It Takes to Help Your Team Be Creative?
in Employee Workforce, Featured, Talent Management/by The Wejungo TeamWe have learned that human performance categories like sales ability and leadership can be broken down into skill sets that are not only measurable; they are also trainable. I have pushed the competencies approach into several new areas over the years, including parenting, stress management, and even love, but the area where this approach has had the greatest success has been creativity. Based on a review of relevant research and theory, my collaborators and I have identified four core competencies that help individuals express more creativity, boosting creative output dramatically.
4 Steps To A New Promotion Model
in Employee Workforce, Featured, Grow Your Biz, Talent Management/by The Wejungo TeamOrganizations were truly shaken up and altered by the last recession. In the past, the so-called lessons learned were quickly forgotten as companies lost focus on efficiencies and fell back into bad habits. So far, overall, that is not happening this time around. Here are 4 steps management can implement to build growth-based career cultures.
Recruiting the Millennial Generation
in Attract A-Talent, Employee Workforce, Featured, Recruiting Strategies, Talent Management/by The Wejungo TeamFor years, companies have labeled Millennials as entitled and narcissistic. But as savvy employers can tell you, this simply isn’t true. Millennials, also known as Generation Y, are just different. As a generation, they’re more confident, tech savvy, optimistic, and connected than previous generations. But they also differ in what they want, the skills they bring to the table, and how they communicate.