by karlyn | Jun 24, 2014 | All Articles, Engagement & Morale, For Employers & Leaders, Happiness, Managing Employees
Your best employees are the people that drive your organization forward – they are more creative, more productive, and bring more value to your organization. So, keeping them happy must be a priority – these are the employees that are typically not...
by karlyn | May 29, 2014 | Engagement & Morale, Exercises and Assessments, For Employers & Leaders, Leadership
I have just the slightest intellectual infatuation with Patrick Lencioni. In re-reading one of his many best sellers, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (seriously, if you don’t have this book, leave this blog post and buy it immediately), I was reminded of...
by karlyn | Apr 17, 2014 | All Articles, Engagement & Morale, For Employers & Leaders, Happiness, Managing Employees, Professional Development
Twice a year, Purdue University’s IT Team hits pause on all current projects for a week focused on innovation. Dubbed “Living Dead Week” because it takes place during the campus Dead Week, the time students have free of classes to prepare for finals,...
by karlyn | Apr 7, 2014 | Building Relationships, Engagement & Morale, For Employers & Leaders, Leadership, Managing Employees
A key part of my management framework is communication, the goal of which is to build a trusting working relationships with the people who report to you. That means that it’s not just about you communicating to them – it’s also about them...
by karlyn | Apr 6, 2014 | For Employers & Leaders, Happiness
Not convinced in investing in employee morale? Here’s your business case: When workers are happy, they are more productive. A new study out of the University of Warwick examined 713 workers in four different situations. In three of the circumstances, there was...
by karlyn | Feb 2, 2014 | All Articles, Building Relationships, For Employees, For Employers & Leaders, Working With Others
Zappos made headlines recently when it announced its reorganization into a holacracy by eliminating job titles, managers and hierarchy in favor self-governing system made up of teams, or “circles.” Though this new system would seem to put people first, and...
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