Ask. Listen. Learn. Repeat.
Ask. Listen. Learn. Repeat. It really just boils down to this sometimes, doesn’t it? As leaders, I think we tend to overcomplicate things every once in a while. Parts of leadership aren’t really that...
View ArticleProviding Happiness 26 Times a Year
“Providing happiness twenty-six times a year.” How about that for a company’s answer to the “Why do we exist?” question? This exact phrase came up in a recent conversation around why organizations...
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Stop the Madness!
Stop the madness! Please. I mean it. Stop. I’m trying to help you out here. It starts with an email or announcement in a meeting. Good so far, right? The organization is going to survey its employees...
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Why are You Whispering?
Talking culture and core values should be intense sometimes. I can’t imagine why we’d talk in hushed tones and play semantics hopscotch when talking about something as important as the philosophy by...
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What if Your Employees Wrote a Tell-All?
What if employees from across your organization got together and wrote a tell-all book? I know–scary, right? Let’s push through those feelings of dread and think about this for a minute. What kinds of...
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What Your Employees Have in Common with 4-Year-Olds
It was super annoying when we did it as kids. Our dads, if they had any hair remaining, probably wanted to tear it out. Our moms were exasperated, even wondering to themselves in darker moments why...
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Leaders: We’ve Got To Win Them
Let’s assume for a minute that you’ve been putting some of the foundational, building-block things in place to foster and support healthy culture (things like clarifying the values, making sure...
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Top Posts of 2012: 5 Things Employees Aren’t Thinking
Over the next week, we’re going to take a quick trip down memory lane and check out the posts you guys read and shared the most. So sit back, grab some coffee, and enjoy the year’s best Mojo according...
View Article#1 Post of 2012: Once Upon a Time in a Company Far, Far Away
It started out well enough. Excitement was in the air, high fives were regularly exchanged, bonus checks were often cut, and the consumption of chinese food late at night while you were working on a...
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6 Ways to Really Screw Up Recognition (Guest Post)
A short while back, Matt wrote a terrific blog post over at Globoforce on how to make your company values sticky. As the saying goes, “no good deed goes unpunished.” So we’re reciprocating by giving...
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6 Signs Your Team Needs to Fight More
As you look around the room, you see lots of heads nodding up and down, toothy smiles pasted onto each face. Your boss has just pitched an idea, and you and some of the rest of your team thinks it’s...
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Your Team’s Work Matters
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad. Fyodor Dostoyevsky It really is a shame, but many employees trudge into work every day on...
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Lead Them Where They Want to Go
Very few individuals, if they’re honest, enjoy going to work every day in an environment filled with distrust, political maneuvering, and so many of the other ugly things that characterize too many...
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3 Reasons You Should Listen to Negativity
The undercurrent. Every organization has one – even yours. Maybe especially yours. Sometimes it lurks in the shadows, while other times it can be noticed slithering through various departments. It’s...
View ArticleMy Top-Secret Employee Engagement Formula
“Not another post about employee engagement.” Hey, I don’t blame you for thinking it. If you do a Google search for employee engagement, I suspect you’ll come up with roughly 23,900,000 results. Give...
View ArticleHow to Lose Friends and Alienate Employees
Let’s get real. All that Dale Carnegie stuff is nonsense. What we really need to talk about is how we can lose friends and alienate teammates. The reason I say this is because not only is all this...
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Leaders: We’ve Got To Win Them
Let’s assume for a minute that you’ve been putting some of the foundational, building-block things in place to foster and support healthy culture (things like clarifying the values, making sure...
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Top Posts of 2012: 5 Things Employees Aren’t Thinking
Over the next week, we’re going to take a quick trip down memory lane and check out the posts you guys read and shared the most. So sit back, grab some coffee, and enjoy the year’s best Mojo according...
View ArticleOnce Upon a Time in a Company Far, Far Away
It started out well enough. Excitement was in the air, high fives were regularly exchanged, bonus checks were often cut, and the consumption of chinese food late at night while you were working on a...
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6 Ways to Really Screw Up Recognition (Guest Post)
A short while back, Matt wrote a terrific blog post over at Globoforce on how to make your company values sticky. As the saying goes, “no good deed goes unpunished.” So we’re reciprocating by giving...
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