Are you on a journey towards a more transparent leadership? Meet Dirk: Transparent Leadership Like many other good leaders I interview, Dirk Feldhaus, General Manager at Lohmann-Koester Mexico, is modest when he speaks about his transparent leadership and their workplace culture. We had a chat about their 4 years of measuring employee morale on […]
A few days before McDonald’s China did their SAP training their staff satisfaction was at its highest ever. Two weeks later the mood data reported a drastic change at the back office centre. “It’s a difficult sell to do change management”, says Philip Shum, Director of Change Management at McDonald’s China. “It’s not measurable”, he […]
Continuous improvement in the workplace starts with you. And then with your team, right? 1. Seek continuous improvement: Step by step Continuous improvement isn’t about setting a high pace. It’s about finding a rhythm that works for your organization, it’s about changing everyone’s mindset to a systematic way of finding better ways to do things. Above all, […]
Does your company use a balanced scorecard for measuring company performance? Hang on, how is our employee morale doing lately? Yup. Where is your ongoing People KPI? What has happened since your employee engagement survey last October? Between the popular branch manager leaving in January, the growing unhappy bunch in the IT department and last […]
Engagement in the workplace is a hot topic… Atrivity interviewed us about how simple technology is driving engagement in the workplace. Here’s a recap: Effective HR and operational managers make it their business to gauge how their people are feeling. With an ongoing “war on talent”, managers need to consider employee happiness while empowering them to […]
Communication during organizational change is tricky. Because most people already know what the employee mood is like at work. So what’s the problem? It’s not being talked about. Or it’s not being talked about when the managers are around. The challenge you’re facing is to go after this. To get people to open up and start talking about […]
Having a bad day at work? My work day: Today I pressed the red button leaving work. I was indeed having a bad day at work. And if you check the red people icons in my photo (it show’s today’s employee mood result) – I wasn’t the only coworker that hit the red button. And for those […]
The ideal work environment Nissan has been measuring and improving its work environment with their Celpax device for 55 days. How’s it going? Gabriela Guzman, HR, told us a bit: Our Celpax is right beside our biometric access control terminal, to make it easy for employees to participate. Anonymously and voluntarily! Once the “warm-up” […]
Employee Empowerment Techniques is our topic today: Employee Empowerment Techniques: The TRND way Sven Mulfinger, General Manager at TRND, was recently interviewed over at “People On The Grid”. He shared his journey towards employee empowerment, and accountability of employees. And as Sven’s organization is about to celebrate 1000 days of real-time employee morale, we wanted to share his story: […]
