I’m Simpson…Gregory F Simpson, Agent In Engagement. Below is the latest briefing on employee engagement intelligence. Follow @agtinengagement to stay current with the latest updates.
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SPOTLIGHT ARTICLE
Research: When Managers Are Overworked, They Treat Employees Less Fairly
Harvard Business Review: “In a recent paper, published at the Academy of Management Journal, we propose that one explanation is that many managers are, simply put, too busy to be fair. They are often expected to juggle multiple responsibilities under intense time and work pressures, and so treating employees fairly may take a backseat to other pressing priorities.”
A New Paradigm For Corporate Training: Learning In The Flow of Work
Josh Bersin: “The corporate training market is over $200 billion around the world and it’s going through a revolution. While we often think of training as programs or courses, a new paradigm has arrived, one I call “Learning in the Flow of Work.” Let me explain.”
Former Netflix Chief Talent Officer Reveals What She Learned From Working At Netflix, How The Company Got Its Start, How To Use Tough Love In HR And Much More
The Future Organization: “McCord’s advice for employees is to figure out what you love to do and where you can do that, solve problems that need to be solved, ask smart questions of management, and take someone you admire to lunch to ask them how they got to their current position.”
We’ve been going about learning new skills all wrong
Fast Company: “Here’s how to design leadership development in a way that will actually work.”
This Week in Employee Engagement: June 8, 2018
Maritz Motivation Solutions: “Here is our weekly roundup series to help you stay connected to the often overwhelming landscape of employee engagement thought leadership. Start here to narrow down your search each week.”
ICYMI: Avoid These Scary UI Mistakes, Renew Your Focus on Employees, More
CMSWire: “A common theme of the top articles on CMSWire last week had to do with hard work going to waste because details were ignored. Make sure you’re hard work isn’t going down the drain by catching up on the articles.”
The All-Too-Common Problem Of ‘Managing The Work More Than The Worker’
Forbes: “There are many reasons for such disengagement, of course, but having minimal interest in the person actually doing the work is surely high among them.”
Measure Quality of Hire With These Three Critical Factors
Visier: “In order for the pre-hire data in your ATS to be useful, a complete picture of the employee lifecycle is need. You must first look at post-hire data on high performers in your organization, specifically those related to whether these people Stay, Perform, and Progress.”
Skipping Your Lunch Breaks? Even Your Boss Wants You to Go out for a Bite, a New Study Says
Entrepreneur: “Tork teamed up with Jennifer Deal, a senior research scientist at the Center for Creative Leadership and Affiliated Research Scientist at the Center for Effective Organizations at University of Southern California (USC). We aimed to take an in-depth look at the modern lunch break and what we could do to improve returns for on-the-job performance. Here are four benefits we found.”
How to be more trustworthy by telling strategically vulnerable stories
CultureAmp: “As culture leaders, our role will be to not only steward the conversation around trust as a key organizational value, but also to model trustworthiness in the way that we work, so we can inspire our colleagues to do the same. To do so effectively, we need to turn to storytelling. Today, I’m going to help you understand how to be more trustworthy by telling what I call strategically vulnerable stories.”
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Other recent Agent in Engagement data/reports by Agent Gregory F Simpson:
- Veteran Operative Employee Engagement Insights: 2018.06.04 – 2018.06.08
- 10 Important Phrases to Improve Employee Engagement
- Top Employee Engagement-Related Articles of May 2018
- You Are “Just” a Guide
- Is Complaining Helpful
- Be a “Mom” to Your Team: Employee Engagement and the 7 Characteristics of Being a Good Mother
- Top Employee Engagement-Related Articles of April 2018
