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Abhishek Mittal Building Accountability for Employee Engagement

Cross-posted from http://abhishekmittal.com Many a times, I find that HR folks rush too fast to make employee engagement metrics a part of KPIs or balanced scorecards. The idea is that there should be a “carrot” to ensure that managers take accountability for their people, otherwise they won’t spend time on open dialogue with their teams and co-create action plans for improvement in engagement levels. I was recently asked if the carrot and stick ap… Continue

Added by Abhishek Mittal on November 6, 2009 at 2:30am — No Comments

Bob Brogan You Proposed a Corporate University: “Are You Nuts?”

Here is a quick story for you. A mid-market human resource executive schedules an agenda item for the next month’s senior management and board meeting. The proposal is to create a Corporate University to address meeting the company’s performance objectives. The initial reactions to this agenda item from the CEO, CFO and COO ranged from “are you nuts?”… “in today’s economic climate”…. ”expensive”….”limited appeal and utility”…. “no short-term benefits”….. to ”looks like it’s time to look for new… Continue

Added by Bob Brogan on September 29, 2009 at 3:18pm — No Comments

Abhishek Mittal What Motivates People?

Employee motivation is one of the key components of employee engagement. Employees who are motivated are willing to invest discretionary effort to go above and beyond the call of duty. They are more likely to go the extra mile to help the organization succeed. There are a variety of ways in which companies and managers seek to motivate their employees. Some of these succeed and some don't. I thought it will be a good idea to jot down a few basic principles or broad themes you should keep in min… Continue

Added by Abhishek Mittal on September 23, 2009 at 10:00am — No Comments

Abhishek Mittal Who Are You Hiring Next In Your HR Team?

So, the question is simple - "Who are you hiring as your next HR leader?" As I meet more & more people, I find lesser & lesser instances of "business" people in the HR departments. There are very few cases of line managers making a lateral entry into HR. So, the HR team remains composed of a group of people exposed mostly to HR and administrative processes. Business leaders are always asking for more 'value' from the HR teams and often have unmet expectations around HR's alignment with… Continue

Added by Abhishek Mittal on September 22, 2009 at 11:30pm — No Comments

Bob Brogan Franchise Training Fails Customers and Franchisees

With my nearly 20 years of professional experience within the franchising business arena, it is safe to say that the traditional and existing franchisor training has failed its two most important constituents: 1) Customers and 2) Franchisees. The central tenet for franchisors to provide immersive training around key events is flawed and the manual-based operations courses are outdated methods to deliver daily success. The inability to provide…(more)… Continue

Added by Bob Brogan on September 16, 2009 at 2:31pm — No Comments

Bob Brogan Stop Inefficient Corporate Training Efforts!

The ultimate objective for corporate training professionals is to provide learners with a continuous learning experience to increase proficiency and expertise to achieve desired business results. No small task for small and medium sized businesses as well larger corporations. Most companies have been constrained by their existing systems (e.g. antiquated LMS, stand-alone intranet applications, etc) or lack the tools to effectively deliver against this corporate training objective. The ability to… Continue

Added by Bob Brogan on September 1, 2009 at 5:41pm — No Comments

Abhishek Mittal A Better Human Resources Team

How often have you heard business leaders wishing that their Human Resources team was more strategic? I have heard that several times and felt that on a number of occassions through unsaid words. Leaders wish that HR departments are more strategic in their focus, rather than being overly pre-occupied by administrative and transactional tasks. Leaders, today, want their HR team to create business value, instead of having ‘compliance’, ‘adherence’ and ‘tasks’ as their top KPIs or KRAs. But, when… Continue

Added by Abhishek Mittal on August 26, 2009 at 9:52pm — No Comments

Bob Brogan Finding Nirvana for the Small and Mid-Market HR Executive: Addressing the 8 Hidden E’s

Small and mid-market HR Executives face a daunting challenge in providing transformational leadership with limited/reduced budgets and resources. These executives must perform superhuman feats to address their organization's key needs to achieve business objectives by addressing 8 hidden E's: - Engage different employees and constituent groups, - Enable distributed employees in an economic and efficient manner - Effective deployment of "real-time" changes in product,… Continue

Added by Bob Brogan on August 21, 2009 at 11:14am — No Comments

Abhishek Mittal Is Your Organization Ready for Employee Engagement?

I have often come across HR leaders who ask "Are we ready for employee engagement?" Many HR practitioners feel that they should be initiating an employee engagement program only when their HR systems / processes reach certain maturity levels. The fear, of course, is the fear of failure. The fear is "What if the results are bad? And they are likely to be bad, because we are not 'there' yet." As far as I am concerned, it is never too early to measure & manage employee engagement. Emplo… Continue

Added by Abhishek Mittal on August 7, 2009 at 9:00am — 4 Comments

Abhishek Mittal Simple Data to Make the Case for Employee Engagement

There are plenty of research papers and articles which demonstrate the value of Employee Engagement for organizations. Here is something that I had penned a while back for Deccan Herald (a leading newspaper in India). Many of these research pieces are propreitary or done for specific clients by consulting firms. Hence, I have been hunting for "open source" infor… Continue

Added by Abhishek Mittal on July 28, 2009 at 3:47am — No Comments

Abhishek Mittal An Approach for "Action" on Change Implementation Programs

Cross-posted from my blog As you would have noticed from most of my writings, I often find that 'change' programs and Employee Engagement initiatives fail as a result of poor follow-up on research findings. Organizations, with or without the help of consultants, are able to design great diagnostic tools to measure the right issues. Using analytics, they are able to… Continue

Added by Abhishek Mittal on July 7, 2009 at 2:43am — No Comments

Abhishek Mittal Employee Engagement - Where to Focus?

After having worked with multiple organizations across multiple geographies on Employee Engagement programs, there is still an interesting debate I have with clients, colleagues, friends and HR practitioners. The question is “Do we need to focus exclusively on workgroup-level engagement or focus on enterprise-level systems / processes first?” Some feel that workgroup engagement is paramount, … Continue

Added by Abhishek Mittal on June 26, 2009 at 7:18am — No Comments

Abhishek Mittal 8 Tips to Manage Change in The Current Economic Climate

Cross-posted from my blog: The current environment poses significant challenges to organizations across the globe. Employees are suffering too. Employees face a fair amount of confusion about their companies’ goals & strategy and at a micro-level, confusion about their own job roles. There are heightened concerns over job security & compensation. I could go one with… Continue

Added by Abhishek Mittal on June 25, 2009 at 8:10pm — No Comments

Kevin Sheridan HR Solutions, Inc. Debuts Short Films on Employee Engagement

I am excited to announce the launch of HR Solutions' three short films on employee engagement! Please find the links to these lighthearted movies on my main profile, or by clicking here. If you wish to send the link to a friend, simply have them paste the following URL in to their browser: http://www.hrsolutionsinc.com/Engagementshorts/ We appreciate any comments or suggestions for additional videos that you would like to see in the… Continue

Added by Kevin Sheridan on May 5, 2009 at 8:47am — 1 Comment

Ethel Kanoko HR in Africa and The Global Financial Crisis - lets Re-think the Way We Work

As though HR professionals in Africa do not have enough challenges, we have now been thrown into a tumultous scenario. Many of us have been focusing our efforts on attracting and retaining our talent, to varied degrees of success. Now we have to retrench them. The effect and impact of this will be felt long after the crisis is over. I'll first put into perspective the challenges I believe we actually face, and how they are connected: 1. Changing Generational Landscape 2. Engagement 3. The Globa… Continue

Added by Ethel Kanoko on February 19, 2009 at 12:58am — No Comments

Steve Roesler How Do You Measure Workplace Happiness?

I was checking the statistics to here to find out the search engine queries that bring people to All Things Workplace. I figured that the keywords were going to be mostly about leadership or management. I was wrong.

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Added by Steve Roesler on June 24, 2008 at 12:35am — 3 Comments

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