At People Centric, we have the formal strategic planning experience to help organizations navigate challenges. When we work with organizations, we often begin by evaluating their Vision and Mission [...]
Many organizations realize that their cultures are preventing them from being more successful, recognizing that it’s time to make some changes. They envision the high-performance work practices they [...]
Every organization has a culture. Formal strategic planning can be an asset to your work culture, demanding high performance work practices from your team and increasing profitability. However, [...]
Many companies are struggling to find good workers as unemployment drops to low levels in many places in the US. I have personally attended several area workforce development workshops and [...]
We often say, “If you don’t like meetings, you aren’t doing them right.” Meetings are compelling interactions between intelligent people working together to create something. They should be [...]
The term Employee Engagement sounds like such a soft term. It has long been perceived as a measurement of an employee’s happiness with his or her job, but does employee engagement have a bigger [...]
A coworker you consider a friend comes to you to complain about another coworker. You listen. You empathize. You try to share the frustration of your coworker to make them feel better. You even [...]
Stop nodding your head so much.
With effective performance appraisal methods in place, your performance evaluations needn’t make employees feel bad about themselves. When an employee fails to meet expectations, he or she hasn’t [...]
Many companies who are suffering from high turnover or morale issues attack the problem by looking for ways to reward their employees. They look at things like benefits packages, company events, or [...]
