Tired of employees working in silos? One of the biggest complains I hear from my clients revolves around those dreaded silos – people working in isolation without connecting across teams or sharing information with each other. Working in silos creates miscommunication, impedes innovation, and results in people working at cross purposes with one another. Here’s…
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A simple way to take everyone’s pulse at work Whenever I talk about communication in the workplace, I always stress that there needs to be a dialogue, not just a one-way dumping of information AT employees. You need to talk with employees, not at employees. A very simple way to engage employees, check the pulse…
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If people are dying for a pay check…maybe you need to work on your culture? There are so many reasons to focus on building a rocking workplace culture, but I can’t think of a more important reason than this: People are dying in record numbers because of their workplace culture. I’m not talking about the…
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Is radical candor at work always a good thing? When to zip and when not to zip! t happened to me. One of the most dreaded moments a public speaker can face – the realization that I’d been speaking for the last hour or so with my zipper down. And, truth be told, not just…
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Hiring for culture fit can sometimes backfire! As I write about in the my book, Hire, Inspire and Fuel Their Fire: How to Recruit, Onboard, and Train New Employees to Live Your Culture Out Loud, although great companies hire relentlessly with their culture in mind, they don’t follow the old adage, “hire for culture fit.” …
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Is it time to unearth YOUR unwritten rules at work? If you want to assess the current state of your culture, or understand what employees really think about your culture, then you need to do more than just surveying your employees once a year. You need to have real conversations that get to the sometimes…
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