When employees experience meaningful moments, connections form, creating a mini-culture that flows into and impacts the larger workplace community. But how and where do these connections occur? And what’s the business value of focusing on relationships? This article will guide you through research-backed tips and strategies to help you cultivate satisfaction, connections, growth, and positive …
Now more than ever, it’s essential for even the most well-established organizations to embrace corporate innovation. In this article, you’ll learn corporate innovation, two different innovative models to implement, and key terms to know when starting your journey, such as proof of concept and design thinking. In this article, you’ll learn corporate innovation, two different …
Remote work is increasing in popularity — especially as companies are moving to a hybrid work model. While you hire, train, and onboard new employees remotely, take some time to review this remote onboarding checklist. You’ll learn how to create a thoughtful and effective onboarding program in 11 steps and drive learning across your team. …
Learning programs are critical for retaining your workforce, boosting employee productivity, and closing your company’s skills gaps. But your employees must be engaged with the learning in order for these programs to be successful. Employees who enthusiastically adopt learning opportunities are not only learning new skills, they’re helping their companies compete in a quickly changing …
Sitting at work, you use your brain to solve problems and think about all sorts of things. But how often do you ponder why it is that so many people spend upwards of eight hours in an office, each day? The thought probably never entered your head. Don’t fret if how your workplace came to …
Colin Ellis, author of The Project Book, says accountability simply means ‘The buck stops with you’. He also likes the Japanese expression ‘setsumei skinin’, the literal meaning of which is ‘duty to explain’. “When you are accountable for a project, it is your duty to explain the progress of the project to anyone at any …
Workstyle: A revolution for wellbeing, productivity and society (2022) introduces the concept of workstyle: the freedom to choose when and where we work. By examining the outdated history of the standard 9 to 5 working week in the light of the modern digital age, the authors lay the foundation for an individualized and autonomous way …
Ann Hiatt learned about leadership, innovation and risk-taking while working alongside legendary CEOs such as Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Google’s Eric Schmidt and Yahoo!’s Marissa Mayer. But those heady experiences arose only because of her bedrock conviction that success requires a willingness to pivot toward opportunity and be resilient in the face of difficulties. Hiatt explains …
Getting Along (2022) describes the importance of workplace interactions and their effects on productivity and creativity.
Workplace Learning (2019) argues that learning and development professionals have to offer more than the usual array of courses and seminars. If you want to help your company compete in today’s fast-moving world, Nigel Paine believes, you have to start building the right kind of organizational culture. That culture rests on two pillars: open communication …