Podcast – Misadventures in Taking Survey Answers Literally
Employee engagement surveys have been the standard for organizaitons to measure employee sentiment for decades now. However, the structure of these tools beg for organizations, and I’ve been part of the post-survey process, to look at issues at the team level and try to address specific, question-driven feedback. Of course, there are some larger issues […]
Podcast – Misdventures in Engagement and KPI Measurement
Today’s podcast episode responds to a listener question regarding employee engagement’s lack of ability to be connected with key metrics within an organization. It’s been well-known that engagement data can be tied on a normative basis with other organizations. Hence, you’re able to see that those who scored higher engagement scores are performing higher than […]
Podcast – 4 Differences in Organizational Alignment v Employee Engagement
Employee engagement has been the standard of measurement to understand how employees feel about their work. However, these assessments don’t connect to why the organization exists, nor do they connect with key metrics that organizations care about. In fact, there are 4 key differences between the concepts of employee engagement and organizaitonal alignment. Listen to […]
Podcast – Misadventures in mistaking hard work as the goal
Kara Lawson, the head Women’s Basketball coach at Duke University, posted an interesting video recently that differentiated the concepts of hard work and competing. Her premise was that billions of people work hard, but competing brings a different level of performance. Competing brings an aspect of reaching further within yourself to win. Your competition may […]
Podcast – 4 Differences in Organizational Alignment v Employee Engagement
We believe that organizational alignment to mission and vision is the next stage in the evolution of employee engagement, just like engagement was the evolution from employee satisfaction. This podcast delves into 4 key differences between these two concepts, including How alignment adds a layer of purpose How the questions you ask yourself as a […]
How Mars Inc. HR Dept Drove Alignment in a Business
In our last post, we talked about the efforts of Carlos Valdes-Dapena, a former Director of Organizational and Group Effectiveness at Mars, Inc. from a recent HBR article Stop Wasting Money on Team Building. The post before that, we discussed connecting HR strategy with business strategy. Carlos did a great job of connecting the efforts of HR and […]
A look at how Mars’ HR Focused on Building Accountability and Teamwork
An interesting HBR article was posted by Carlos Valdes-Dapena, a former Director of Organizational and Group Effectiveness at Mars, Inc. about how he was involved in a project to help drive greater team performance in the company. The title of the post, Stop Wasting Money on Team Building, discussed how team building events many organizations partake […]
How to Align HR Strategy to Business Strategy
Organizations that are aligned to mission and vision have departmental strategies and initiatives that tie to the overall business strategy. Human Resource strategy is one of the most important strategies as its impact spans across every role and department. However, in order to be truly effective as a binding force for real alignment, HR needs […]
4 Differences between Employee Engagement and Alignment
Measuring employee engagement is a standard practice in organizations around the country. It was the evolution from employee satisfaction. Organizations wanted to learn not only if their people were satisfied with their job and employer, but whether they really wanted to do their job at a high level. The logic – people ‘engaged’ in their […]
Alignment Beats Talent When Talent Isn’t Aligned
The legendary basketball coach, John Wooden, had a famous quote, “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” This quote tells me that a team with a lesser collection of talent can compete with and win if they work hard and believe themselves. I thought of this as my son was watching the movie Miracle […]
