How Automated Performance Reviews Can Help Managers
A recent Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index indicated that because employees are not engaged, organizations lose about $300 billion in productivity. Other reports illustrated that while employees want to make progress at work, 95 percent of managers put progress last. This obvious disconnect doesn’t do much to…
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4 Ways to Revive Your Team
A recent infographic illustrated how professionals can actually kill their productivity by seemingly normal activities, such as multitasking and long to-do lists. For many, these low levels of productivity can stall careers, leading to reduced levels of engagement and unhappiness, sucking the life out of…
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A Cure for Performance Review Blues?
“The majority of employees hate performance reviews,” writes Jeff Haden in an article on Inc.com. “The majority of managers hate them, too.” So what’s a better way to evaluate employees? Perhaps by making performance more social and using tools like WorkSimple. Check out the full…
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Setting Team Focus
WorkSimple’s 4.0 Release introduced a new way to set the agenda for your team: Team Focus. Setting team focus helps communicate to the team members (as well as outside your team) the direction you want to go. Besides helping teammates understand direction, team focus also…
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7 Easy Ways to Improve Employee Morale
A happy and engaged workplace is a successful workplace. However, if your employees are disgruntled and have low morale, it could be disastrous for your organization. According to a recent SHRM survey, although 83 percent of respondents felt satisfied in their jobs, only 68 percent of those felt passion and…
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Why is Employee Loyalty So Hard to Achieve?
According to a recent Forbes article, 76 percent of full-time workers, while not actively looking for a new job, would leave their current workplace if the right opportunity came along. The article also goes on to highlight that on average, a company may lose anywhere…
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4 Ways to Prevent Career Fatigue
It happens to the best of us. After tirelessly working for long stretches of time, we sometimes find ourselves burnt out, disengaged, and ready to call it quits. Yes, we’ve all been there, but how many of us do something about it? At the end…
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6 Steps to Engaging Young Professionals
It’s a problem many employers face: how do you engage a younger workforce? How do you get a new generation, a generation that considers themselves “digital natives” interested in their jobs? Additionally, how do you get them to produce lasting results without forcing an iron…
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With disengaged employees contributing to a significant part to business-related threats, WorkSimple, a company that specializes in driving workforce engagement and performance, recently introduced a new performance and social engagement analytic platform. Company leadership and human resources personnel can use the new platform to gain usable insight…
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The Pitfalls of Company Goals
Defining high-level, meaningful organizational goals is a very difficult for managers and leaders. Meaningful goals will come through a process of illumination, reflection, and interaction — discovering shared values and belief systems across the organization. This is not a quick or easy process. There is…
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