Every-level Leadership: How Focusing on Performance Allows Everyone to Be a Leader
Your job can literally kill you. A new study from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business found that when employees feel like they have little autonomy over their work, their mental health suffers, resulting in depression and even death.
4 Reasons Remote Team Leaders Need to Implement Employee Recognition
Employee recognition has long been recognized as a powerful tool for leaders to increase engagement and elevate performance. But leadership during a time of crisis goes beyond simply acknowledging good work. It looks to move toward a more human level of appreciation for the hard work and dedication of employees. Right now, it’s time to […]
Businesses Need to Focus on Employee Recognition, Especially Now
While the majority of the workforce continues to work at home, a major challenge for leaders in the foreseeable future is one of keeping their employees engaged, productive, and happy through this time of stress and unknown. This challenge, like many others, is one that falls very squarely on the shoulders of your managers. Ever […]
OKRs in the Time of COVID-19
This is a guest post written by OKR expert and author Paul Niven, President of OKRsTraining.com
Conversations, Feedback, and Recognition Make Your OKRs Better — Especially When Remote
The world has suddenly shifted to a virtual workforce due to the international crisis caused by Coronavirus. As the threat of the virus likely subsides over the next several weeks, there will be lasting changes in the way we work and how we collaborate moving forward.
Times Like These: A Special Note From the Inspire Team
How to Manage Burnout During a Crisis [Infographic]
With much of the workforce moving to work-from-home for an indiscernible amount of time, employers are trying to keep their people happy, healthy, and productive while everyone adjusts to their new settings. Burnout and loneliness are a big challenge for remote workers — 82% report feeling frazzled from the stress and pressure of proving their […]
OKRs: the Cutting-Edge Goal Strategy To Steer Performance
Companies of all sizes grapple with goal-setting. Whether it’s which methodology to choose, what it should ‘look’ like, or even what goals your organization should set — there’s a lot of room for error. At all stages of the business lifecycle, from individual and team goals to the broader company strategy, goals are necessary to […]
How OKRs Can Transform Your Performance Management Strategy
Annual performance review and appraisals have been losing favorability and effectiveness for some time now. When managers and employees see the process as time consuming, too subjective, and unhelpful, performance review does little to actually motivate and improve performance on an individual basis.
How Your Succession Plan Can Inform Your Workforce Planning
Skilled workers are the heart and soul of a company, but with unemployment at an all time low and a growing skills gap, a shortage of skilled workers is making it hard for businesses to find the right employees to give life to the mission and business objectives of that organization. For a number of […]
