Improving Interdepartmental Communication
Communication is key to the success of any organization. The challenge is often that there are different groups within organizations that have more or less ability to communicate with one another.
Tag: employee development
How to Instill Ownership in Your Workforce
We’ve spent a couple of posts now discussing the concept of ownership in the workplace.
How Does Continuous Performance Management Work
In a previous post, we discussed the results of the State of Continuous Performance Management Survey. The survey results showed significant reductions in some of the negative impacts of only performing annual reviews when companies instead utilized what is known as continuous performance management.
The Risks of a Lack of Ownership
In a previous post, we talked about the concept of ownership in the workplace. This could apply to having ownership over a specific project or initiative or, more generally, having ownership over a team or department.
Continuous Performance Management vs. Annual Review
Feedback is crucial to employee development, both to reinforce positive behaviors and to address and correct negative behaviors. Additionally, regular feedback is important in helping employees advance in their careers within the organization. Unfortunately, many organizations continue to limit their formal employee feedback to an annual review.
What is ‘Ownership’?
It’s common in workplaces to hear people talk about “ownership.” Typically—and unfortunately—this is often in the context of people lacking ownership. But what do we mean when we say someone is (or isn’t) taking ownership over something?
Do Your Leaders Have These 6 Timeless Skills and Attributes?
Continuing yesterday’s post, here are six additional timeless qualities that effective and successful leaders own that you’ll want to keep in mind.
Career Development, Employee Development, and Leadership Development: What’s the Real Difference?
As a learning and development (L&D) professional, you understand the importance of creating different types of learning and development programs for your organization and promoting them across your organization. But sometimes, terms and titles can get jumbled, and it may become a little complicated to decipher when you should offer what type of program and […]
3 Timeless Skills and Attributes Your Leaders Should Have
The leaders across your organization can drive your organization forward or they can destroy its goals and ambitions. In fact, finding and developing great leaders for your organization are always the most important and relevant things you should be doing as a learning and development professional.
Promoting Employees When There Are No Positions Available
In a previous post, we talked about the benefits to both the employer and the employee of promotions. For the employee, while a promotion comes with greater responsibility, it also typically comes with greater prestige, seniority, authority, and compensation.