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Goal Alignment

When employees personal goals are aligned with organizational goals, their impact is amplified.    #goals   #corporateculture 

Employee Performance

Annual or semiannual performance reviews can never provide the real-time, in-the-moment coaching that helps individuals understand the context for the feedback. 

   #performancereviews   #corporateculture

Manager Engagement

Per Gallup, 51% of US managers are not engaged, and 14% are actively disengaged.  In other words, your boss is probably just as disheartened as you are.  

     #employeeengagement  #corporateculture 

Employee Performance

A Corporate Executive Board (CBE) study found zero correlation between individual employee performance ratings and actual business results.  That's about as uncorrelated as you can get.  #employeeperformance  #corporateculture

Employee Performance

Mutual respect is a job performance booster.

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#EmployeeEngagement

In Gallup's State of the American Workplace survey, which polled more than 195,000 employees, only 2 out of 10 respondents said they had a close friend at work.  Gallup estimates that if this number was tripled to 6 out of 10, the average company would increase its profitability by 12%.  You can hardly expect employees to be engaged in their work if they're not engaged with each other.     #corporateculture, #employeeperformance

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#Empowerment

Empowerment is most highly correlated with employee engagement, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment, while accountability is the strongest factor impacting job performance.             #leadership #business #corporateculture 

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Measurements

Good measurements signal what's important in an organization.  They position people to get their priorities straight.  It focuses everybody's efforts on what counts the most.  It makes it possible for them to evaluate their performance, to make improvements, to allocate their time and effort to produce maximum payoff.

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Employee Performance

Common sense is not the product of tools, policies, and procedures; those are substitutes for common sense. 

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Employee Engagement (Not!)

According to Jim Clifton from Gallup, only 15% of the world's 1.4 billion full-time workers are engaged in their jobs.  What an 85% colossal waste of untapped potential, and, at a time when organizations can least afford it.

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