The Résumé Avalanche In a recent article first published on LinkedIn, Laszlo Bock, Senior Vice President of People Operation at Google wrote a paper entitled “Five errors that immediately get your résumé rejected at Google”. This paper describes how, because, in recent years, recruiters at Google have been faced with so many résumés, they have…
Green Eggs and Ham Do you like green eggs and ham? Some people do and some people don’t. Are there rules that explain why we each like some food combinations while avoiding others? And, if there are, could we learn something from them when it comes to team building? Like team building, food sensation is…
Why Teamwork Works Whether looked from the perspective of our own lives or the effectiveness of an organization’s employee retention strategy, the saying “None of Us Is As Good As All of Us” is as relevant today as when it was coined by McDonald’s co-founder, Ray Kroc. This idea is particularly relevant when it comes…
Micro-Managing In a recent blog post describing how feedback control works and its importance to the effective functioning of any organization, I mentioned that organizations that are micro-managed are much less well able to respond rapidly to problems discovered lower down in the organization. Through the deployment of Talent Chaser, we have discovered that this…
Not Everyone Has the Same Motivations Through the deployment of the Talent Chaser Performance Appraisal and Task Action Planning Module, we generated loads of interesting and insightful data. In my blog post Should Pay be linked to Performance?,I mentioned that each employee will be either intrinsically or extrinsically motivated. When it comes to whether or…
When it comes to performance appraisals and the linking of performance ratings to pay, there are two schools of thought: It’s BAD, because managers can be put under pressure to downgrade appraisal ratings in order to suppress pay raises. This can create an unhealthy dynamic between the manager and their direct reports and can lead…
The data collected through the deployment of the Talent Chaser software solution shows that great innovators can bring to the table skills and knowledge that can help an organization introduce innovative management processes. It also turns out that as organizations improve “bottom-line” performance, their capacity to provide work environments that are more motivating for employees…
Data collected through the deployment of our recruitment and employee management software solution Talent Chaser shows that, while reducing employee turnover is not easy, part of the solution involves embeddinginnovative people (Intrinsic Thinkers) into all levels of the organization including roles not traditionally thought of as needing such talent. Intrinsic Thinkers are born innovators who…
Understanding how thinking styles influence employee behavior and motivation can have a substantial impact on an organization’s employee retention strategy and on reducing employee turnover rates. I dedicated a series of blog post to describing two predominant styles of thinking, namely Intrinsic and Extrinsic Thinkers and their effects on employee performance. In this blog post,…
Intrinsic-Extrinsic partnerships can be highly effective in problem solving situations. However, problems can arise which can lead to a failure of proper dialogue developing between the two. Where this becomes pervasive, employee retention programs can suffer and employee turnover rates often increase. Avoiding the ‘Yes-Man’ Syndrome The alternative to dialogue is monologue, a concept originally…
