Can we blame people for judging companies on their culture? We all spend such a high proportion of our lives at the office nowadays, that it’s unsurprising that we care about our working environment. Most conversations on culture inevitably end…
High Performance Culture
3 Secrets to Building High Performing Teams
Whether you’re scaling a large organization or building a new company, hiring and retaining top talent and building a high performing team is absolutely key. In fact, there is no bigger factor in driving a company’s long-term growth and success….
Why Managers Should Play Favorites
Living up to its name in a major way, this DisruptHR talk’s title “Why Leader Should Play Favourites” is about as contrarian as it gets. If HR offers advice at all to managers, it’s”Don’t play favorites.” Yet here’s Jane Helbrecht,…
5 Steps to Knowing and Keeping Your Best People
At the end of the first quarter of 2017, 45% of small businesses reported that they were unable to find qualified applicants to fill job openings. Our own research, Becoming A People Company, shows that growth can be particularly challenging…
5 Mistakes Leaders Make That Cripple Teams
Leaders create the culture that helps their teams thrive –– or barely survive. Of course, no leader intentionally stymies or stalls a team. But even the strongest leaders may make mistakes that freeze their people rather than free them to…
5 Behaviors That Build a Company’s Culture
A review of 2017 HCM trends identified improving corporate culture as a primary focus for HR leaders. Research from CEB also identified culture as the most common talent topic discussed during corporate earnings calls. Clearly culture matters. But what determines…
5 Areas of Focus to Avoid an Uber Culture Catastrophe
Is this the end of Uber’s bro culture? An investigation into Uber’s corporate culture, led by former U.S. attorney general Eric H. Holder Jr., has resulted in Uber’s CEO Travis Kalanick taking a leave of absence for an undisclosed amount of time. Holder made 8 recommendations, including 2…
What Do You Do After Ending Performance Ratings?
Note: This is the first of three articles dealing with managing performance and compensation in the post-ratings organization. The second article on bonus and comp distribution will post Tuesday. The third discusses calibration formulas. ———— Many early-adopter organizations who jumped…
How to Tell If You Have a Dysfunctional Team
Note: This is adapted from Accelerating Performance: How Organizations Can Mobilize, Execute, and Transform with Agility by Colin Price and Sharon Toye. Savvy HR leaders know that high-functioning teams are the engines of performance in organizations. Yet teams that are…
The 5-Hour Secret to Happier, Productive Workers
This series profiles people whose ideas have the power to transform the workplace. Several are company leaders who have put their ideas into practice. Others are thought leaders influencing the way we work. Each new part will post on Tuesdays….
On the Four Stages of Workforce Analytics, Where Are You?
When it comes to your HR projects list this year, put workforce analytics first. The talent management industry has been discussing workforce analytics for years, but 2016 witnessed some of the biggest leaps toward true big data capabilities. Organizations are…
This Company Lives Its Culture
The articles and expertise found here on TLNT, on Culture University and Constructive Culture provide a fantastic foundation for a leader to learn how a purposeful, positive, productive culture operates. From making values as important as results to creating an organizational constitution…
How Great Leaders Pull and Push To Success
Note: The following article was adapted by the authors from their new book, Speed: How Leaders Accelerate Successful Execution. The number one behavior tied to innovation is the willingness to change. We can all probably come up with a variety…
Who Cares About Employee Experience?
Most leaders and managers are either well into their strategic plans for 2017, or their plans were completed weeks ago. For those still working on ways to improve for the coming year, however, one key area to consider is your…
A 5-Hour Day Works For This Company, Can It Work For You?
The American workforce has become lazy. I estimate, conservatively, that knowledge workers are four times as efficient as they were 20 years ago. That’s why I moved my company to a five-hour workday about a year-and-a-half ago. We work 8…
Forget Customer Experience, It’s All About the Employee Experience
“Taking care of the customer is our number-one priority.” “The customer is always right.” At least that’s what I’ve always been told. And I’ve practiced it, preached it, and believed it. But, I’ve learned that approach is short-sighted. Maybe the…
7 Things You Can Do to Keep Your Best People
Have you ever lost a great employee to another employer? Hurts, doesn’t it? And while that person probably told you they were leaving for more money, that’s rarely the case. More often the real reasons have to do with relationships,…
What It Takes to Change An Organization’s Culture
Note: This is part two of an interview conducted by Tim Kuppler with organization culture pioneer Larry Senn. Part one published yesterday. You can find it here. One of the greatest business challenges is effectively changing a workplace culture. It’s…
12 Insights About Culture Change From a Workplace Culture Pioneer
Note: Today, TLNT features the first part of an interview with Larry Senn, one of the pioneers in the field of organizational culture and culture change. His USC doctoral dissertation, “Organizational Character as a Tool in the Analysis of Business…
How to Improve Performance With Better HR Metrics
The rise of data based applications has brought about a new era for the HR department. Processes developed in the 70s are now going through a transformation with tools for gathering more accurate reports based on people analytics. But what…