Nurturing and sustaining employee engagement is one of the most important aspects of successfully managing a workforce.

This makes perfect sense since highly engaged employees tend to be high performers*. And we all want high performers on our teams.

On January 31st renowned author and engagement expert Chester Elton (@chesterelton) will lead a webcast based on his runaway best-seller “The Carrot Principle.”

During this webcast, Chester will demonstrate how purpose-based recognition can lead to higher [...]

Defining and refining your organization’s compensation management program is critical for boosting employee motivation and retention. However, properly rewarding top producers and allocating pay adjustments across an organization can be a complex, laborious and error-prone task.

This CFO.com article provides a perfect example of the mistakes that can be made when it comes to compensation practices.

To avoid these compensation pitfalls, pay for performance policies and processes must be transparent and consistently executed.

Here are [...]

In an employment context, you might think that “addition by subtraction” has a rather ominous sound to it. In fact, if you read between the lines, it usually means someone is getting fired.

But not so fast.

Addition by subtraction is actually a good thing—and it has nothing to do with handing out pinks slips. Instead, it’s about becoming an exporter of talent—a topic that Mike Figliuolo, Managing Director, thoughtLEADERS, LLC discusses in his blog post,

Those conversations we’d rather not have…

We often go to great lengths to circumvent unpleasant conversations. Agreeing when we disagree. Laughing when we don’t find the joke or circumstance funny. Appeasing when we’d rather not conform.

Yet no matter how hard we try to prevent unpleasant conversations from happening, they are inevitable. The best thing to do is accept the reality, and understand that a little discomfort now, will save a lot of discomfort down the road.

With this thought in mind, [...]

This is the perfect time of year to write a post on the importance of making performance management a year-round effort.

After all, January is when resolutions abound and the importance of delivering effective feedback is something all managers should be striving for.

Instead, I’m going to focus on the advantage of using journal notes as part of your performance management process.

These notes are something both you as the supervisor and your employees should consider incorporating [...]