What is a High-Performance Culture?

What is a High-Performance Culture?

A high-performance culture is a set of behaviours and norms that lead an organization to achieve superior results. In other words, it’s a culture that drives a high-performance organization, which according to Cornell University, is a company that achieves better financial and non-financial results (such as customer satisfaction, employee retention, etc.) than those of its peers over a long period of time. (more…)

How to Drive Employee Engagement Through Effective Performance Management

How to Drive Employee Engagement Through Effective Performance Management

How much are disengaged employees costing your company? Gallup estimates the cost of disengagement to be around $1 trillion per year. So what drives engagement and what strategies can leaders use to create an environment where both engagement and productivity thrive? Companies with highly engaged employees outperform companies with disengaged employees on all accounts, including higher profitability, productivity, customer metrics and decreased turnover.

Here are the 3 research backed strategies in effective performance management and the key players involved in the performance management process. (more…)

How do You Cultivate Passion in Your Organisation?

How do You Cultivate Passion in Your Organisation?

Employee engagement has long been the holy grail for executives, but a new report from Deloitte reveals a widespread failure to move the needle when it comes to this elusive metric or its close cousin, passion.

Despite an estimated $1 billion corporate expenditure in employee engagement in 2017, the study found 68 % of workers are not engaged and 87 % don’t feel passionate about their jobs. Perhaps even more alarming, 49 % of C-suite executives, 51 % of senior management and 63 % of middle management say they are neither passionate nor engaged. (more…)

The Business Case for Recognition: The latest research, compelling insights, and the benefits of effective recognition

The Business Case for Recognition: The latest research, compelling insights, and the benefits of effective recognition

Highlighting research from the O.C. Tanner Institute, along with the latest Gallup and Aon Hewitt studies, this white paper demonstrates how effective recognition has been proven to cause great work and much more. Download the white paper below.

It doesn’t matter the industry or locale, every organization today is facing the same set of integrated issues: How do you meet the rapid pace of technological changes? How do you effectively attract and retain the talent necessary to innovate and compete? In essence, how do you create an environment that engages, motivates, and inspires people to do great work at all levels? (more…)

How to Ensure Your Employees Feel Appreciated

How to Ensure Your Employees Feel Appreciated

Anyone can perform a task at work knowing the end result is a salary. However, passion and hard work often stems from affirmations employees hear from their boss or manager. Employees don’t just crave a paycheck — they want recognition, verbal appreciation and encouragement. Great leaders help employees grow via performance motivation, recognition and feedback. (more…)