Posts de Emergenetics International
Creating a Great Place to Work
Recently, a friend sent me a Harvard Business Review blog that helped me think about how I can make my office a truly great place to come to work. The opening paragraph of the blog was particularly striking: More than 100 studies have now found that the most engaged employees — those who report they’re…
Lire la suiteWant Innovation? Get Out on the Golf Course
I hope I don’t turn away non-golfers with this blog, but it’s Friday, the weather (at our office in New York, at least) is beautiful, and I’m wishing I was hitting the links. That being said, I’m not going to go into a “sports as life or business metaphor”…too much. So here is why getting…
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Well, this blog isn’t exactly about a specific index, but wouldn’t it be nice to know just how happy we are? Just googling “Happiness Scale” threw up online tests such as the « Subjective Happiness Scale” developed by Dr. Sonja Lyubomirsky, author of The How of Happiness. But what has this got to do with anything?…
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When it comes to team-building activities for the workplace, there is usually one of two responses. Enthusiasm around doing something unique and different as a team. A collective groan from the employees who think that this will just be one more thing that HR or Training thinks is fun. The response that isn’t always asked…
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One of the things I love talking about – both in a personal and work capacity – is relationships. I would like to say it is a topic close to my heart, but I know now that it is actually in my brain. Relationships are everywhere. We can talk seriously about relationships between business partners…
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Clearly any talent management strategy for a business must encompass a wealth of factors that ebb and flow in importance based on an even greater set of influences and outside factors. This is evident in Deloitte’s latest report on Talent Management, Talent Edge 2020, which we tweeted yesterday, and which holds fascinating findings based on…
Lire la suiteGoal Setting with Impact
Goals and objectives can be like an exercise routine or a gym membership. For those of us who are committed regulars, the process can be a bit routine and rote, but at least we are checking in regularly. Then there are those of us who start with the best intentions, set a great plan, but…
Lire la suiteMaking Your Employees Idea Generators
How does your organization get at ideation? Does your organization even know what ideation truly is? Ideation (according to Wikipedia) is the process of generating ideas, communicating those ideas, and developing the ideas to fruition. So what does that really mean? Well, firstly, it means something different than innovation—that business buzzword catchall for creativity, idea…
Lire la suiteWorkplace Assessments- and How to Make Them Actually Work
When it comes to assessment, companies look to review every aspect of the organization, some using a comb with fine enough teeth to catch every minute detail. P&L statements, earnings reports, revenue numbers, and other financial elements are scrutinized (and rightfully so) to an incredible degree. But what about assessing the very generators of these…
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George Bernard Shaw (pictured), famous playwright and Nobel Prize for Literature winner, once said, « The greatest problem with communication is the assumption that it has taken place. » How true. I was reflecting on a blog entry from the Harvard Business Review when I came across the quote above. As I thought deeper, I came to…
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