By Scott on 18 August 2009
I’m a long-time fan of the information the Gallup Organization produces. Whether you agree with their conclusions or not, you have to admire and trust the data they gather, sometimes daily, on many different issues. Some of that information relates to workers’ well-being — it’s their “Gallup-Healthways Well-being Index.” You can see the data by [...]
Posted in Performance | Tagged employee satisfaction, employee survey, great workplace, high-quality jobs, workplace culture
By Scott on 27 July 2009
Learning from the Best: Redbrick Health (#25) Finding the right answers to making a small business work is not always easy. Good thing there are leaders making it work whom we can learn from. From the annual Best Companies to Work For survey by the Great Place to Work Institute and SHRM, we have 25 [...]
Posted in People | Tagged great workplace, high-quality jobs, job fit, job satisfaction, workplace culture
By Scott on 5 May 2009
Have you ever had a bad day when nothing seemed to go right? Or a situation where your decision or plan turned out to be a real disaster? Maybe just a time when you said the wrong thing. Did you think about the situation and say to yourself, “wow, that was stupid; I can’t believe [...]
Posted in Performance, Workforce Design | Tagged failure, great workplace, leadership, learning, mistake, potential, training, workplace culture
By Scott on 2 February 2009
Work Environment is Critical “Our research in 2008 has shown that workers in high quality work environments, while not immune to the effects of the economy, are cushioned from the substantial declines in well-being that have been observed in the general populace. Top economists are predicting a tough first six months [of 2009].” (my emphasis) [...]
Posted in People | Tagged great workplace, high-quality jobs, low-quality jobs
By Scott on 19 December 2008
It’s almost 2009 and so we’re starting to see the “Best of 2008″ and the “What’s Ahead for 2009″ articles. One of the ‘what’s ahead’ articles I noticed today is of value for any and every HR leader, business leader, and business owner. What are the key aspects that you as a business leader look [...]
Posted in Benchmarks, People, Performance | Tagged Benchmarks, great workplace, metrics, People, revenue, workforce design
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