employees
April 16, 2018

Do Leaders Really Care About Their Employees?

Does your CEO - and your entire leadership team - really care about their employees? 
 
I had another blog post in the hopper for this week, but when this article came across my desk, followed by a phone conversation with Bob Chapman, I knew I needed to write something different, something that is top of mind for me now - and often - as I work with my clients.
 
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employees, Annette Franz Gleneicki, leadership, employee experience, employee satisfaction
August 31, 2017

Where Do Your Employees Fall in Order of Importance?

Does your company put employees first? or customer first?

I suppose that there's one more possibility - neither.

Sadly, that's the case for a lot of companies.

But that's not the topic of this post. This post is all about where employees fall in order of importance in your company.

Recently, I was reading an article in Industry Week and came across this paragraph.

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employees, customer loyalty, customer experience, employee experience
January 24, 2013

How to Help Employees Get Strategy

How effective are cascades – you know, those processes by which communication flow down through an organization from the CEO through senior leaders to middle managers to frontline employees?  Not very, was the answer in a piece in last month’s Harvard Business Review.

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strategy, facilitation, executives, engagement, employees, Denise Lee Yohn, communication, cascades
January 11, 2013

Upside Down - A Culture of Curiosity

Does your company have a culture of curiosity? If not, it should.

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Annette Franz Gleneicki, curiosity, corporate culture, communication, customer, employees
December 3, 2012

Friends With Benefits: Employees Are Social Too

Several months ago, I had the pleasure of moderating a panel at the Pivot conference in New York City. With me on the panel was Chris Heuer from Deloitte (and Social Media Club) and Pheobe Venkat, head of social at ADT. We discussed a less explored conversation when it comes to all things social—but every company has them:

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David Armano, social media, employees
March 26, 2011

When I Grow Up

I guess it's no big surprise that in a (US) survey of over 10,000 young professionals Google came out as the company that most would like to work at. And by some margin, with nearly a quarter of survey respondents selecting them, almost twice as many as picked the second place business, Apple.
 
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Neil Perkin, Google, organisation behaviour, people, employees, employees engagement, workplace, corporate culture
September 6, 2010

Employing Older Workers

Two people, who should know about the subject, have got together to write a book titled, Managing the Older Worker: How to Prepare for the New Organizational Order. Peter Cappelli (Director for the Centre of HR at Wharton) Resources and Bill Novelli, former CEO of AARP.

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Dick Stroud, grey, employees, age, workplace
July 23, 2010

Stop Picking on the Mailroom Guy: the Empty Strategy of Squeezing the Bottom of the Ladder

A guy I used to work with left an all-hands meeting one day. The company had just announced a layoff (it was long enough ago that this was still stunning, not an everyday occurrence like it is now). He turned to me and said, “They always get rid of the mailroom guy.”

What he meant was that the burden of whatever circumstances caused the company to cut back fell on the lowest-paid employees. And whatever mistakes the mailroom guy had made, they hadn’t caused the company’s distress.

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John Caddell, management, organisational behaviour, employees, workforce
April 17, 2010

Facebook Visited Twice as Often as Google in the Workplace (and Why You Shouldn’t Ban Social Media at Work)

Employees are visiting Facebook more than any other site when they are at work, and twice as often as the second most visited site, Google. Research out this week from Network Box, a Managed Security Services company, shows that visits to the social network accounted for 6.8% of all workplace traffic in Q1 2010, exactly twice the 3.4% of all traffic that went to Google.

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Matt Rhodes, Facebook, social networks, social media, workplace, social media policy, employees
August 14, 2009

5 Challenges Social Business Will Face

A recent survey conducted by Proofpoint found that 8% of companies had terminated employees due to social media usage (common causes including sharing sensitive information on a network).

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social media, social business, employees, David Armano, challenge
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