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 state [...]
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 Best Small [...]
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 I [...]
Posted in Performance, Workforce Design | Tagged failure, great workplace, leadership, learning, mistake, potential, training, workplace culture
By Scott on 17 March 2009
How many of us make a living out of what we are passionate about?
I know there has been a lot written about doing what you love to do, and there are people and businesses that help you uncover your passions (think Gallup’s StrengthsFinder).
But how many of us are actually doing these things?
There are only a [...]
Posted in People | Tagged business challenge, diversity, personal growth, problem-solving, strengths, talent, workplace culture
By Scott on 12 January 2009
Even if you don’t follow their stock price you need to understand this:
Google’s stock close yesterday: $315
Price on Aug 27, 2004: $108
Highest price between: $714
Source
(Yahoo Finance has their 1yr target at $458)
Obviously there are many reasons for Google’s success. I want to highlight one critical factor underlying it which relates directly to your business – [...]
Posted in People, Workforce Design | Tagged performance management, productivity, winning organization, workplace culture
By Scott on 31 December 2008
I was looking at Gallup.com’s “Year in Review” this morning and saw their note on “A Low-Quality Job Makes a Tough Economy Tougher.”
“In the first 26 weeks of 2008, the average weekly well-being of those in high-quality jobs has been substantially higher than those in low-quality jobs. In the average week this year, more than [...]
Posted in People | Tagged attendance, business, customer satisfaction, customer service, gallup, high-quality jobs, productivity, retention, safety, work environment, workplace culture
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