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Why Incentive Programs Don't Motivate Employees With the best of intentions many leaders throw parties, give gifts, and shell out monetary rewards in an attempt to motivate their teams.  Unfortunately, such traditional incentive programs have no lasting, meaningful affect on workforce motivation levels.By definition, one person cannot motivate another.  Motivation is intrinsic; therefore a leader can only provide an environment that is conducive and supportive of employees choosing to exhibit motivated behavior.Employee Recognition is an important

Breaking Down Multi-Gen Communication Barriers For many managers today, coming up with a practical way to communicate with their employees can be a major challenge, especially with a multi-generational team.  When leading a multi-generational team, it helps to understand their backgrounds and communication style preferences when developing a standardized communication process.Break Down Communication Barriers:1) Learn more about each employee’s communication preferences with a DARE survey.2) Identify generational differences to better understand how each employee views communication.3)

Adjust Your Decision-Making Style to Motivate Your Multi-Gen Team Each generation views decision-making in very different ways.  For managers today, there can be a challenge in creating a single process for making and communicating important business decisions.  Without a defined and transparent process, managers run the risk of frustrating and de-motivating their team members.Decision-Making as Seen by Different Generations:1) Mature (65+) – Typically expect decisions to be driven from the top down2) Baby Boomers (46 –

Finding Common Ground for Motivating Your Diverse Workforce Most organizations today draw strength from having a diverse workforce.  One area of diversity is having multiple generations working side by side.   These generations bring different views on how they work, find motivation and achieve success.Being able to identify and understand employees from the different generations can provide leaders with a big advantage when looking for ways to motivate their team.Four Workforce Generations and What Motivates Each:1) Mature

Elevating Employee Engagement Expectations by Seth Davies Run Time: 30 minutesEmployee Engagement has become a high priority for many leading organizations today. This recent focus on getting people more engaged has created a variety of issues for leaders. Although studies show that 90% of leaders say engagement directly impacts their organization’s success, only 25% of those leaders actually have a strategy in place to create a highly engaged workforce.What You’ll

The 8 Tenets of Employee EngagementBy and large, employees in any organization want to be successful.  They want to be seen as collaboratively and collectively moving their organization forward – they want to be engaged. True employee engagement cannot occur without a defined methodology.Key to an employee’s success in becoming highly engaged is the ability to follow a model of Learn, Know, and Do.  There are 8 tenants of employee engagement that should serve as

Empowerment or Engagement? Why not both?A decade ago “empowerment” was a top buzzword and Human Resources Managers were searching high and low for the best methods to provide it to their employees.  What was being labeled as empowerment really only took the employees’ perspective into consideration.   What employees were actually asking for was the opportunity to make an impact, which from the organization’s point-of-view means to be “engaged.”Today, leading organizations are dually focused on increasing

Employee Engagement is Not a Feeling Has your organization ever implemented a “great place to work” initiative?  The theory being that you first make your employees happy, and then in turn they will work harder for you and productivity will rise.  Let’s face reality.  This. Doesn’t. Work.Productivity is not about happiness, it’s about engagement.  Engagement is not a feeling.  Real engagement is about deliberate and demonstrative behaviors – in other words “doing.”  To instill

Employee Engagement: Action, Intent and PurposeHigh on the leadership development to-do list, employee engagement has become a top priority to many forward-thinking organizations today.  This focus on getting the workforce more engaged has created a complicated set of issues for leaders as they ponder what it is, how it can be tracked, and how important it is to their organization’s success. Play Video - "Elevating Employee Engagement Expectations"Knowing the

Why Employee Engagement is so Important Along with other leadership topics, employee engagement has become a high priority to many leading organizations today.  This recent focus on getting people more engaged has created a variety of issues for leaders as they consider what it is, how it is measured, and how important it is to their organization’s success.Employee Engagement is Important because…88% of fully