Performance

Where’s the Love?

The new world order of business is rewriting the social contract between organizations and employees. Shifts in Employee Responsibility: Death of Permanence: What got us here won’t get us there. Guarantee of Lifetime Employment: Your value to your organization is relative. While you may be indispensable today, that’s no guarantee of how you, your skills

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Who’s Dragging Your Team Down?

This week I had the opportunity to witness our medical system first hand, as a close family member underwent a significant life threatening procedure. Observing the coordinated effort of the care-givers was a lesson in team-centered collaboration, information sharing, process and policy adherence and yes – human relationships! Research suggests that relationships impact: Caregiver perceptions

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What’s Our Strategy Again?

Is your strategic execution process broken? Have you ever witnessed a well-crafted and well-intended strategy really work – from top to bottom, from inception to execution? With organizational resources stretched to the limit, time in short supply and focused attention a near impossibility, many of our best strategic initiatives get lost in the middle between

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Injuries, Injustice and Bad Timing: Why Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Work

What are you worth? Few subjects elicit more emotion than compensation. While researchers are shedding new light on the emotional complexities of salary determination, fairness and transparency… is anyone looking at the clock? Dispelling two compensation fallacies… Pay me more and I’ll be happy! (NOPE) While research conducted by Kanas State University supports the long

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Small Talk or Small Talks?

Over the last month, I’ve had the privilege to work with a group of big picture executives, an auditorium full of soon-to-be college grads and most recently, a team of highly talented and creative global business developers. Reviewing my notes from these three dramatically different experiences one theme remained constant… VALUE! What it is? How

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Did Your Career Choose You?

Over the last several weeks, I’ve had the privilege of giving a series of talks to college students. With graduation season fast approaching, it was apparent that these students were worried about how to get their first job or internship. The experience allowed me a fresh perspective on the entire process of career development and

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