Supervisors: You Won’t Believe How Easy It Can Be To Build Your Department’s Performance!

July 25, 2014 Transform Your Group Into A Performance Building Team Through Friendly Competition, Peer Pressure and Mutual Support. Are your people working as individual contributors in a production-focused function? Sometimes people find it increasingly difficult to motivate themselves over time to perform at their very best, in environments where the work they do is…

The H.R. Employee Relations Function: A “Hygiene” Activity Or A Strategic Value?

Employee Relations is one of the most important Human Resources activities in the company, because it is through the problem-solving and coaching, often in very difficult situations, that work relationships and trust can be built or broken. Decisions and actions are made that demonstrate the organization’s real values and its philosophy about people. Employee Relations…

What Is H.R.’s Strategic Role?

H.R. is generally a participant with the executive team in establishing the business strategy. But H.R.’s strategic role goes well beyond a team role in deciding the strategy. Execution is where most organizations struggle or fail, and H.R. can significantly impact execution. There are six Keys to Strategy Execution KSEs) that are essential to optimize…

The Truth About Trust, Engagement And Organization Performance

As managers in today’s organizations,during an economic recovery that is challenging even to the world’s top 1% of businesses, our primary concerns are about building business performance and growing. The fact is, the top 1%, including Fortune 500 companies, are not necessarily the models of successful leadership that we might emulate, since many of them…