Managers, listen up: micromanagement kills your team’s efficiency and will slowly drive you insane. I’ve prepared a simple four-step plan to help you stop micromanaging and thereby preserve your employees’ productivity. [Read more...]
The Importance of Context
By 07/6/12
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This ecard from someecards may be a bit dramatic, but it does highlight an essential point for a high-performance worker: context. [Read more...]
How Employee Engagement Leads to Productivity
By 05/9/12
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Many managers read all the talk about employee engagement and think that happy employees will automatically level up their productivity; unfortunately, managing performance isn’t that simple. [Read more...]
Engaged Employees Catalyze Economic Growth
By 02/17/12
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An excerpt from Jim Clifton’s “The Coming Jobs War” makes a fascinating assertion: engaged employees catalyze economic growth, and high-energy workplaces are thus poised to save America. [Read more...]
The Genetic Structure of High-Performance Teams [INFOGRAPHIC]
By 01/30/12
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This infographic by Brown & Company outlines the genetic structure of high-performance teams and the four phases they use to bring a product to market: Ready, Aim, Fire, Adjust. [Read more...]
