New Survey: Front-line Managers Don’t Practice Recognition for Employee Engagement

June 24, 2011 - Written by Kevin
 

In our book We, Rudy Karsan and I suggest that Recognition is one of the three major drivers of employee engagement (Growth and Trust being the other two). Now, the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) has released a new survey on employee engagement and recognition, based on …

Google’s 8 Habits of Highly Effective Managers

March 22, 2011 - Written by Kevin
 

In a special initiative called Project Oxygen, Google unleashed its famed statisticians to analyze 10,000 observations about managers, across more than 100 variables, to find out how to build the perfect boss. Their resulting manifesto identifies 8 qualities, presented in order of importance:

1. Be a good coach

Provide specific, constructive feedback, …

How to Get Employee Committment, Buy-in and Passion

November 24, 2010 - Written by Kevin
 

I just wrapped final edits and did jacket approval for my new book, co-authored by Kenexa’s Rudy Karsan.We: How to Increase Performance and Profits Through Full Engagement (Wiley, January …