Startups are vulnerable, and they depend on a number of interrelated resources working together to self-sustain into bigger and better stages of development.
The Cost of Office Politics
Making people compete for rewards and promotions tends to keep them on their toes. Ideally, a corporate culture encourages people to be the best they can be.
The Rise of People and Culture
This article was originally posted here and was written by By Rocky Ozaki, Director of People and Culture at Rise People. From a very young age, I knew my calling was to empower, inspire, and generally help as many people as I could. Nurturing babies was more interesting to me than playing with a GI […]
Building Strong Internal Relationships Is a Personal Thing
Building collaborative work relationships is a challenge for many people. Relationship building is generally not taught in schools and it’s rarely taught to those who join the managerial ranks. There is a big problem with that.
How Personality Profiling Can Help You Engage With Disengaged Employees
You can’t assume your employees are engaged just because they’re checking off tasks. People can perform efficiently without being emotionally invested in their contributions to the organization.
Millennials And Money: 3 Things Small Business Owners Need to Know
These days, every retailer–from big-box stores to mom-and-pop shops–are trying to capture attention and share of wallet from the “millennial” demographic, and with good reason.
Quantifying Your Company’s Emotional Culture
Managers tend to view emotions as something “soft” that can’t really be measured. But you can — and should — track emotions quantitatively, the same way you’d track employees’ other attitudes and behaviors: through surveys. There’s a key difference in approach, however. In a survey we’ve used in many organizational settings, people don’t tell us how they feel. Rather, […]
Introverts and Extroverts: Different Management Styles
As the boss, your goal is to have all your employees operating at their peak level of energy, efficiency, and motivation—which can be a challenge when it comes to leading a team comprised of introverts and extroverts. How do you manage these contrasting personalities and work preferences? How do you draw out your introverts and get […]
The importance of developing soft skills in millennials
A recent study by the Educational Testing Service (ETS) found that U.S. Millennials lag behind their global counterparts in a way that creates real on-the-job problems for them, their colleagues and teammates, and managers: They show a genuine lack of hard and soft skills. According to the ETS Report, U.S. Millennials “…consistently score below many of […]
Accreditation: due diligence or straitjacket?
However, it is hard to achieve excellence if a good chunk of the workforce is systematically excluded from consideration on the basis of non-credentialing.