Does having a unified team actually translate into improved performance? If implemented correctly, research shows team cohesion can improve morale, motivation, and loyalty. And having high marks in these areas is certainly an indicator for performance. What we’re talking about isn’t just getting your employees to meet up at the bar after work a couple …
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Performance Measurement: Key Terms Overview
Performance Measurement: Essential Key Terms Overview © Copyright Carter McNamara, MBA, PhD, Authenticity Consulting, LLC. Adapted from Field Guide to Consulting and Organizational Development Suggested Pre-Reading Overview of Performance Management Process for any Application Key terms include Domain Results measures indicators organizational goals organizational preferred results aligning results weighting results standards performance plans observing, measurements …
Learning how to build great project teams is a skill like any other business tool. The catch phrase: “great leaders are born, not made” really isn’t all that accurate in today’s business environment. Creating good, effective, high performing teams takes practice. What is a high performing team? In today’s business world, it’s not good enough …
Aiming for high productivity during the summer can be difficult when everyone is making plans for vacation and time to visit with family and loved ones. Beyond maintaining productivity in the workplace, it’s hard to keep employees in the office in the summer. In many ways, it takes a team player who is also a …
All managers and organizations have their philosophies about how to motivate employees and manage their teams. Some seek to create cooperation and loyalty. Others rely more on the competitive spirit to get things done. And the truth is different approaches can work, but it’s important to understand what kind of work environment you’re creating with …
From a fuzzy idea to a survey to actionable intelligence: How to plan an employee survey to encourage organizational change. Guest Post Written By David Chaudron, PHD David shares his 11 pointers that allow movement from the “Yeah, we need to find out what our employees are thinking” to specific actions based upon the data …
We often talk about good teamwork as everyone getting along and coming together with the same vision. It may sound counter intuitive to say the best way to promote teamwork is through conflict. Teamwork coaching rhetoric often tells us conflict is something to be avoided, but the truth is that a healthy amount of discord …
(Guest post from Jan Terkelsen ) Have you ever thought that managing people with introversion is challenging? Or that you have to “manage” them in some way. I’m guilty. Yes, guilty of seeing introversion as something that you have to change or manage. As a Myers Briggs practitioner and workshop facilitator I am often asked …
