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Apr 26

Optimizing Total Compensation: Effective Approaches to Avert a Retention Crisis

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When aligned with the corporate culture and designed to achieve company financial objectives, a total compensation program can encourage employees to feel vested in the journey and can improve retention. This alignment helps an employee understand how his or her work can create personal success and drive financial results for the organization. To create alignment with employees, an organization needs the flexibility to address retention challenges, as well as the technology to support the variations necessary to motivate every employee. Above all, an organization needs to empower managers to become key allies in the fight to retain employees. Request Free!

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Apr 11

Do More Great Work: Stop the Busywork, and Start the Work That Matters Free Book Summary

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In this summary you will learn What “great work” is How to do more of it by using a 15-step mapping system Why you should read Do More Great Work Business coach extraordinaire Michael Bungay Stanier shows you exactly how top-notch mentoring works. He provides 15 practical, easy-to-follow exercises, or “maps,” you can use to identify and pursue your best work – and your best attitude. While Stanier cannot look over your shoulder as you apply his approach, his helpful maps and friendly tone of voice make it seem as if he is right beside you, teaching you how to attain goals that make a difference. getAbstract recommends Stanier’s systematic and supportive approach to making your work more substantive. About the author Michael Bungay Stanier is the founder and senior partner of Box of Crayons, an innovation consultancy. A former Rhodes Scholar, he became Canada’s business Coach of the Year in 2006. Request Free!

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Aug 11

The iPass Mobile Workforce Report – May 2010

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This edition of the iPass Mobile Workforce Report reveals the behaviors of mobile employees and identifies common characteristics to segment users into five categories (mobile minimalists, mobile minority, mobile majority, mobile masters, and mobile maniacs) by asking what technologies provide a gain or a drain to productivity, how often they check their smartphones, how often they work from home, and if mobility influences their work/life balance. Request Free!

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Apr 16

Exhorting Employee To Work Harder – Common Managerial Mistakes Series

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It’s not surprising that managers try to improve productivity and employee effectiveness by exhorting staff to “try harder”, or to make more of an effort in their jobs. It’s a natural human tendency to assume that the simple act of trying harder will result in better results, but more times than not, the assumption is incorrect.
Learn more about this common managerial mistake, its pitfalls, and what to do about it
In our often Western dominated organizational thinking, we attribute a lot of employee success (and our own success) to “trying harder”, or “working harder”. This assumption about the relationship of effort to effectiveness is often incorrect, since there are many more powerful forced that influence results.

Managers often get caught up in the idea that “if only employees would try harder, or work harder, we’d get far better results”. Caught in this incorrect assumption, they rely on exhortation of employees to improve productivity. It doesn’t usually work, and it can end up backfiring.

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