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How Much is Developing Your Employees Worth?

I remember years ago when the cost of employee turnover was calculated to be 150% of an employee’s annual salary. That amount included any internal recruitment costs, external search fees, and hiring and on-boarding expenses as well as the simple

Posted in Best Practices, Employee Communications, Employee Development, Employee Morale, Employee Recognition, Employee Retention, Empowerment, Leadership, Talent Management, Uncategorized Tagged with: , , ,

The Pros & Cons of Virtual Teaming – Part I: The Cons

Do you have a virtual team that isn’t quite clicking? Maybe you’re getting through the basics, but it seems much more mechanical and “out of sight” regularly turns into “out of mind” for your team. I remember when I first

Posted in Best Practices, Communication, Executive Sponsorship, Face-to-Face, Follow-the-Moon, Follow-the-Sun, In-person, Management, Management Support, Project Managers, Videoconference, Virtual Leadership, Virtual Meeting Facilitators, Virtual Teaming, Virtual Teams, Virtual Teamwork, Virtual Workplace

Six Best Practices for Merging Two Companies One Culture at a Time

These days, it seems merger integration and corporate consolidation continues to run rampant across most industries. As you have undoubtedly seen over the past few years, many of the smaller players and especially family businesses that once existed are no

Posted in Amazon.com, Best Practices, Continental Airlines, Corporate Consolidation, Cultural Due Diligence, Culture, Family Business, Golden Handcuffs, Merger, Merger Integration, Strategic Direction, Strategic Planning, Tony Hsieh, Transition, United Airlines, Vision, Zappos

What a Performance Review Is – and What It Isn’t!

So what is performance? Performance is the results we get (the what) plus the behaviors that give us those results (the how). And why do we care about managing performance in organizations? It’s the only reliable way to assure our

Posted in Best Practices, employee engagement, Empowerment, HR, Human Resources, Leadership, Motivation, OD, Organization Development, Performance Assessment, Performance Management, Performance Review

Communication 101: Manage the Message Yourself or They’ll Do It For You!

Today’s organizations experience tremendous amounts of change. Whether these changes are prompted by the implementation of new technologies, the redesign of business-critical processes, or simply the introduction of different leadership practices, the people who are most impacted by these changes

Posted in Best Practices, Change Communications, Change management, Communications, Employee Communications, employee engagement, organizational change, Performance Improvement, Resistance, Stakeholder Management

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