The New Feedback & Coaching App
Today, feedback is typically between a manager and an employee. And let’s face it: it’s not happening as much as it should. It’s one of the main complaints employees have about their jobs: “can I get a little more feedback please?” We spent some time…
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Set Goals, 2012 Olympic Style
“To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping.” – Kerri Walsh Let’s just cut to the chase. Olympians know how to set goals and reach them. If there were ever a time…
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3 Ways to Create a Culture of Feedback
No one wants to feel lost, particularly your employees. It wastes time, bring unwanted stress, and ultimately kills whatever purpose or focus that existed prior. Unfortunately, this it what is happening with your employees when feedback doesn’t fit into the equation in the workplace. Enter:…
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Level Up: 4 Ways to Gamify Workplace Teams
Think gamification is amateur and doesn’t belong in the workplace? You might be surprised to find some recent reports and analysts will disagree. Gamificiation is about understanding that “if you can make something more fun, and include notions of play, you can get people to…
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Setting a Work-in-Progress Limit vs. End Dates
Have you ever asked yourself why it took the entire week to complete inputting the numbers in the file when in reality it could have been completed in two and a half days? We are often given cushy deadlines by supervisors — and while the…
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Are You an Effective Team Leader?
“A leader knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” – John C. Maxwell This is one of my favorite leadership quotes because it implies that to be a leader, you must have the knowledge and experience to motivate others. It is not…
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Managers: Your Employees Don’t Want Performance Reviews
Performance reviews are daunting and painful for many supervisors to complete. They have to spend hundreds of hours (which they often don’t have) thinking about each and every employee on their team, and attempt to remember minute details about their work strategies. While it’s easy…
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Peer Pressure in the Workplace Can Do Wonders
“If all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you do it too?” If by bridge, you mean “completing goals and sharing accomplishments with coworkers in real-time,” then yes, yes we would. Peer pressure in childhood can be a dangerous thing — but peer pressure…
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A Goal-Oriented Social Network for Your Company
We already know that the future of performance is social — there’s no doubt about it. How do you incorporate the Social Enterprise into your company strategy? You already have an intranet in place with email, but that’s not enough — and at times, just…
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4 Steps to Transparency in the Workplace
As an employee, there are very few things more unsettling than the feeling of being kept out of the loop by colleagues or managers. The more information your employees have about their company, its clients, and colleagues, the more they will feel they’re integral part…
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