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5 Effective Tools to Enhance Employee Engagement and Retention

HR Digest

Engaged employees are more productive, loyal, and motivated, leading to improved business outcomes. With Culture Amp, employers can design unique employee feedback programs, conduct staff surveys, and compare outcomes against industry benchmarks. If goal setting is the main focus for employee engagement, this tool gets the job done.

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A Social Sanity Manifesto for 2012

Harvard Business Review

Our stress is compounded by each new performance metric that we're told to track and optimize, but social networking companies keep adding more, because they know each new target motivates us to do the job of growing their networks for them. I will set my own benchmarks. I will not click on any score-based meme. Of course not.

Metrics 15
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The Not-So-Secret Secrets to Making It Big: Five Surprisingly Doable Steps That Will Propel You to the Top

Strategy Driven

It will encompass the goals and benchmarks you need to achieve during this time period. When you take the time to focus, have discipline, and require follow-up, whether you’re a business owner, a manager, or an employee moving up the ladder, you’re creating a road map that documents what has to be accomplished and by when.

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An Unlikely Partnership: When HR and Marketing Join Forces

Harvard Business Review

But the pervasive influence of social media on the work world demands change in the way employers motivate and communicate with talent. Our first, in 2005, aimed to transform the way Xerox's HR staff connected with its workforce and align Xerox employees with new business goals.

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The Fickle Nature of Good Character and Trust

Leading with Trust

If a leader I am coaching had lost the trust of their team, we would ask the team what it would take to earn their trust again, set an aligned behaviour goal to achieve that, then ask affected stakeholders to provide feedback on the behaviour monthly by identifying what worked, what did not, and what the leader needs to do in the next 30 days.

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4 Ways to Improve Your Content Marketing

Harvard Business Review

The playbook sounds simple: attract prospects with content relevant to each stage of their buying journey and extend offers that motivate them to contact your sales team for a demo or discussion. Conversely, many sellers need to share lots of information with prospects to motivate desired buyer behavior.

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The Big Picture of Business: The Realities of Networking

Strategy Driven

By analyzing the true motives for networking (yours and other people’s), one can avoid hurt feelings and letdowns. Lesson Learned: Understand your true motives for going the distance. Get documentation in writing… acknowledging what you did, how you did it and the long-term implications for what you created.