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Loyalty vs. Tenure | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

If your organization confuses loyalty and tenure there is trouble on the horizon…If your business rates tenure higher than performance as a measure for employee evaluation, it is time for you to consider updating your talent management practices and procedures.

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How to Encourage Employee Loyalty & Retain Good Workers

Chart Your Course

It’s no wonder, then, that employers are looking for ways to encourage loyalty and retain good employees. Loyalty Both Ways. Does the company deserve the loyalty of its employees? Do managers demonstrate good business ethics?

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Loyalty to a Leader Is Overrated, Even Dangerous

Harvard Business Review

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Why Your Customer Loyalty Program Isn’t Working

Harvard Business Review

This latest frequent flyer reboot is an example of how the meaning, measure, and management of “customer loyalty” are changing. ” and instead asking themselves, “What kind of loyalty do we want our customers to have , and do we want to have for our customers?”

If You’re Loyal to a Group, Does It Compromise Your Ethics?

Harvard Business Review

Stories in the media about everything from corporate scandals to political machinations to gangland killings often cite loyalty as a primary driver of corruption. Most of us feel loyalty, whether to our clan, our comrades, an organization, or a cause. Pledge of Loyalty to Our Group.

Ethics Allegations Will Hurt White House Staffers Even If They Turn Out to Be False

Harvard Business Review

In recent weeks, we have seen almost daily reports surface of potential ethical conflicts in the White House, whether it’s possible conflicts of interest between the Trump family’s business ties and government priorities or allegations of collusion between campaign allies and Russian intelligence. Unfortunately, the researchers who study this topic have a rather large “sample size”: Ethical stress is an alarmingly common scourge in organizations.

Will you let employees telecommute?

Bud to Boss

If you question a person’s work ethic, don’t offer the telecommute option to him or her. . Loyalty Workspace communication employee performance employee retention telecommutingA recent article in The New York Times, “Tensions Raise Specter of Gas at $5 a Gallon” , got me thinking about the added perk of being a telecommuter. My husband, who works roughly 16 miles from our home, can spend close to $60 per week and nearly two hours in the car each day fighting I-95 traffic.

Will you let employees telecommute?

Bud to Boss

If you question a person’s work ethic, don’t offer the telecommute option to him or her. . Loyalty Workspace communication employee performance employee retention telecommutingA recent article in The New York Times, “Tensions Raise Specter of Gas at $5 a Gallon” , got me thinking about the added perk of being a telecommuter. My husband, who works roughly 16 miles from our home, can spend close to $60 per week and nearly two hours in the car each day fighting I-95 traffic.

Develop Loyalty: Connect with Your Customers

Michael Lee Stallard

9 Key Principles for Business & Life from Sam Zell

Leading Blog

Ethics are a cornerstone. Prize Loyalty. I believe loyalty defines your character. As you can imagine, for someone in my position, loyalty and trust are priceless commodities.

Leadership and Films that Make Change

Women on Business

This film will take you deep inside yourself to ponder the universal questions of what really matters, what roles do tradition and loyalty play in life, and what are the cultural patterns that still have to be faced and changed for the better. Ethics Leadership Cultural Patterns Deepa Mehta Films Gutsy Women Jennifer Aniston Kate Gosselin Movie Roles Non-traditional roles relationships Snookie Water Women of Change Women of Power

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How to Become Truly Social

Coaching Tip

By trusting his customers to create their own change from a pile of coins near the cash register, Ralph, a New York City donut maker, engendered greater customer loyalty and boosted his productivity. Books Business Coaching Ethics Web/Tech Weblogs Dov Seidman How social networksBy Guest Author Dov Seidman. The companies that thrive and win as social enterprises will be those that do the most with their social connections.

The Power of Noticing

Leading Blog

Loyalty creates “blinders to full awareness and action.” It is easy to miss or more likely to accept changes in ethical behavior until it’s too late because of this slippery slope effect. Harvard professor Max Bazerman believes in the power of noticing. Sometimes we get so focused on what is right in front of us that we miss the critical information that would help us to make better decisions.

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We Shouldn’t Always Need a “Business Case” to Do the Right Thing

Harvard Business Review

I’ve been a consultant for almost 20 years, advising companies on complex challenges in ethics, risk, and responsibility. Each year several clients raise the same issue: the need to get buy-in from a skeptical senior executive in order to demonstrate a concrete benefit that will follow a proposed investment in an ethical business initiative or function. The problem is that our obsession with making the business case for ethics makes us sound apologetic and hollow.

Why Should Anyone Be Led By You?

N2Growth Blog

Rather it’s the ability to both earn and keep the loyalty and trust of those whom they lead that sets them apart. If you build into those you lead, if you make them better, if you add value to their lives then you will have earned their trust and loyalty.

Best New Leadership Book Of 2014

Eric Jacobson

My favorite chapters are: Know Your People Tell Stories Create a Culture of Advocacy Build Loyalty and Engagement from the Middle Bring People Together Ask “What If?” Question : Can work ethic be taught? In that regard, he taught me a “work ethic.”

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True Leaders Believe Dissent Is an Obligation

Harvard Business Review

I first encountered the term last year, in an intriguing interview with a CEO named Victor Ho, cofounder of a customer loyalty company that has raised more than $100 million in venture funding. Ethics Communication Leadership Digital ArticleThese are head-spinning times for those of us who think about the best ways to lead and the most effective ways to compete. What defines acceptable personal behavior (let alone behavior worth emulating) among public officials?

If Employees Don’t Trust You, It’s Up to You to Fix It

Harvard Business Review

Employees who don’t trust their managers usually point to big-picture, obvious things: Their superiors skate the edges of ethical behavior, hide information, take credit for others’ hard work, or flat-out deceive people. But by tearing down barriers and making trust a top priority for everyone, you can expect loyalty, dedication, and high performance from those who will ultimately determine the fate of the business: your people. Ethics Digital Article

7 Traits of a Great Team Member

Ron Edmondson

Work ethic I’ve never been great at managing people. Loyalty - It is imperative in any organizational structure that a team member be dedicated to the vision, organization, senior leadership and the team.

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“All Together Now” with Peter Drucker

First Friday Book Synopsis

Drucker the “infrastructure of collaboration” The Drucker Exchange (the Dx) The Drucker Institute The Effective Executive the ethic of contribution the father of modern management The new “free agent” model is built on individualism The New Realities the traditional industry model is built on institutional loyalty

Kicking Leadership Clichés

Great Leadership By Dan

In the era of big collaboration, the ethicization of business, and the complexity that comes with globalization 2.0, Future leaders recognize that to sow trust is to reap loyalty, to play a proverb into a new cliché.

Out of touch or out of their minds? Maybe both!

Strategy Driven

Value, service, and help are the REAL three things that customers require to give their business and maintain their loyalty. To prove the value of your product or service, and your ability to give value beyond the sale to the PROSPECT so you can earn the order, the reorder, and the loyalty.

Featured Leading Voice: Chip Bell

Lead Change Blog

” As for advice he would give, he believes schools should teach ethics. ” he responded, “Work as a keynote speaker, write business books, and work as a customer loyalty consultant-exactly what I am doing”!

What Connects Coca-Cola, Lego, In-N-Out, Intuit, and Nike? Focus.

In the CEO Afterlife

Intuit is successful because they bring their ‘do less better’ cultural ethic to their customers. Because of that, they are rewarded with brand loyalty. Complexity has many definitions; excessive complication is the simplest.

The 3 Motives Of A Leader People Want To Follow

Tim Milburn

I can’t express this enough: Your peers will follow your leadership with greater loyalty when they want to, rather than when they have to. Ethics over ego. Ethical leaders will always work hard to make the right decision, even if it’s unpopular.

Without Clear Values, You Are Probably Losing Business

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

There is a direct relationship between clear values and success in terms of employee retention, customer loyalty, and long-term profitability. If integrity or ethics are important, it needs to be listed.

Nice Companies Finish First

Leading Blog

Loyalty (360 Loyalty–loyal to what works for the whole company and for all good employees.), When you have the power usually associated with leadership. it''s easy to begin thinking that you can do anything you want. You can treat people any way you want.

Shaking-up Leadership

N2Growth Blog

Reward talent, innovation, loyalty, attitude, creativity, work ethic, contribution, and leadership ability…not tenure. By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. Fact : You cannot win a chess game without moving your pieces to create strategic and tactical advantge.

Execupundit.com: The Basics

Execupundit

Execupundit.com Commentary by Michael Wade on Leadership, Ethics, Management, and Life Saturday, February 12, 2011 The Basics Staff meetings and retreats often cover a multitude of topics while participants assume that agreement exists on core values. An Ethics Chat

Creating Your Image As A Leader With Colleen Hammond – The Answers From Leadership Podcast Episode 15

Joseph Lalonde

I think a leadership success is when you can look and see that everyone was happy, you inspired people to something that is ethically and morally a good thing, you helped other people, and everyone was helped in the process and everyone gained something from it.

The grass is always greener on the other side of the job. Or is it?

Strategy Driven

Leave ethically. Jeffrey Gitomer is the author of The Sales Bible , Customer Satisfaction is Worthless Customer Loyalty is Priceless , The Little Red Book of Selling , The Little Red Book of Sales Answers , The Little Black Book of Connections , The Little Gold Book of YES!

Gain buy-in from resistant team members

Bud to Boss

Have a private conversation with them during which you explain your professional ethics, ideas and goals for the team. Dos and Don'ts Leadership Loyalty buy-in communication difficult situations respect teamsChange is a major part of life—and so is resistance to it.

Be More Competitive. Take A Vacation

The Leadership Advisor

I have also seen the work ethic and productivity of people in those countries. They will return refreshed and it will build amazing loyalty. In a recent article by CNN by A.

6 reasons a leader’s personal business is the company’s business

Bud to Boss

It’s particularly true in organizational cultures, such as the military or competitive innovation firms, that require stringent ethical behaviors, conformity and loyalty. The problem is, when employees are fiercely loyal to a brilliant but unethical leader, they may lose touch with their own ethical objectivity. Great Leaders Leadership Loyalty David Gebler David Petraeus leadership new supervisor skills respect self-improvement

6 reasons a leader’s personal business is the company’s business

Bud to Boss

It’s particularly true in organizational cultures, such as the military or competitive innovation firms, that require stringent ethical behaviors, conformity and loyalty. The problem is, when employees are fiercely loyal to a brilliant but unethical leader, they may lose touch with their own ethical objectivity. Great Leaders Leadership Loyalty David Gebler David Petraeus leadership new supervisor skills respect self-improvement

May 2016 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

To summarize, “Citizenship - or loyalty to a group - is on the decline in today’s organization’s. Welcome to the May 2016 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! This edition touches on so many nuances of leadership!

Would Regionalism Work for the Church?

Ron Edmondson

1 a: consciousness of and loyalty to a distinct region with a homogeneous population . Can Non-Profit Work Encourage a Poor Work Ethic? I was in a community program recently talking about regionalism. . Websters defines regionalism as: .

When Your Company Has a Problem It Can’t Ignore

Harvard Business Review

The fans that the multi-billion dollar football machine depends on are suddenly having to defend their loyalty, and some are deciding they can’t. Crisis management Ethics Leadership Did you notice how quickly the Ray Rice story turned into the Roger Goodell story? For those who need a refresher, Rice is the Baltimore Ravens star running back who was caught on video last April punching his (then) fiancée, Janay Palmer, and then dragging her, unconscious, out of an elevator.

Mentoring and Lifelong Learning

Strategy Driven

The public is fickle and quick to jump on the newest flavor, without showing loyalty to the old ones, especially those who are truly original. Truth and ethics must be woven into how you conduct business. Professionals who succeed the most are the products of mentoring.