Training and Development
The win-win that increases both company performance and employee engagement
Want a better understanding of your Gen Y employees? Just spend an hour or so looking over the shoulder of any young person playing Minecraft. At first glance, this multiplayer game looks like electronic legos. Players manipulate colored blocks to [...]
Many large companies view training and development programs as a waste of time and money. It’s not seen as a profitable investment and is often an afterthought. Managers like to focus on the here and now, and don’t see the [...]
The workplace population today is rife with rich diversity, in terms of age, race, gender — not to mention personality types. When developing training and development programs, how can we address the strengths and weaknesses of both the introvert and the [...]
The last time you were offered a job, did you try to negotiate the salary? Or did you just accept the number offered, no questions asked? If you’re a woman, studies show you’re much less likely to negotiate. If you’re [...]
What can you do in one minute to help someone? And is it something everyone in your organization, from the intern to the CEO, can do? That’s the question posed in a recent Fast Company article by Lisa Earle McLeod, [...]
In an inverse formula of the Gratitude Game, Louis C.K. offers a helpful reminder that “Everything’s amazing right now and nobody’s happy!” In a hilarious bit on Conan, he describes being on a plane when in-flight internet was new. It’s [...]
Do you ever get caught up in a cycle of stress that feeds on itself? You know, when your brain just keeps churning with things to do and stuff to remember and you can’t seem to make yourself stop? When [...]
Does happiness improve your business results? Now that the economics of happiness are being measured by social scientists, economists and even governments, it seems only natural that companies would begin looking at that same metric in terms of their employees. [...]
Tribe: the movie? A former client emailed from LA the other day, asking if Tribe would like to appear in an indie film. In exchange for having them shoot in our offices (and a product placement fee) Tribe would be [...]
New managers generally fall somewhere on the spectrum of two extremes. On one end is the manager who takes great care to gather the whole team’s insights and opinions, concerns and reservations before making a decision. On the other end [...]