Performance Improvement: Vital to Employee and Organizational Success
To thrive in an increasingly competitive market, your company needs every employee to contribute and carry out their responsibilities. When that doesn’t happen, it’s up to leadership to help that team member get back on track. Today’s blog explores performance improvement and why it’s vital to both employee and organizational success. Performance Improvement Defined Before […]
Rethink Career Growth
The True Value of Individual Contributors There is a belief that climbing your way to the top and becoming a manager of other people is the definition of success. Sometimes, we inadvertently extend that thinking to suggest that ambition means the same thing: the desire to work your way to the top in order to […]
Spring Cleaning and The Omnia Position Description Form
Like many people, I have a love/hate relationship with spring cleaning. On the one hand, it needs to happen. Truth be told, it needs to happen more than once a year; I tend to stuff things in various places and then forget where, to the chagrin of my ultra-organized husband. On the other hand, spring […]
A Ten-Step Employee Selection Process: Don’t Leave Hiring to Chance
Welcome to March! It seems like a great time to talk about luck. You know, because of St. Patrick’s Day. And who doesn’t love St. Patrick’s Day? Some cities dye entire rivers green just for fun. Not to mention the parades (well, maybe not this year), green beer, leprechauns, shamrocks, and pots of gold at […]
A Recipe for Recognition: How to Put Your Heart into Employee Motivation
Imagine. It’s Valentine’s Day. Cooking isn’t necessarily your strong suit. But, in the interest of romance, you decide to cook your significant other a beautiful gourmet dinner. You do your research, pull recipes from various sources, and nearly lose your nerve more than once given the amount of steps, potential for error, and mountain of […]
Help Your Employees Stay Accountable to Their Goals
Friday, January 1 Dear journal, this is the year! My resolutions are to jog every morning and cut ALL sugar from my diet. Monday, January 4 Dear journal, my big plan to get up early and go for my inaugural jog, followed by a complete ban on sugar, was better when I was picturing it […]
Lessons Learned, Resolutions Made
As I was riding through a neighborhood park recently, I fell off my bike. You know, to properly end 2020. To avoid a mom pushing a stroller, I swerved onto the grass. As I was stand-pedaling (this is probably not an official cycling term) to get through it and around her, feeling good about my […]
Boosting Morale After a Tough Year
If you haven’t heard, 2020 has been a tough, crazy, roller-coaster ride of a year. I know, I know, I realize that’s all a big… understatement. Unfortunately, there’s still so much uncertainty surrounding our personal and professional lives. COVID cases in the United States are surging once again, creating anxiety for many. As we end […]
What Leaders Have Learned During the COVID-19 Crisis
People likely feared it after watching movies about it – but deep down, never imagined it would truly happen. Even when it started to happen, a lot of people were saying “not us” or “not here.” Boy, were we wrong! COVID-19 was declared a pandemic on March 11, 2020, and the world, as we knew […]
Five Steps to Building a Sales Talent Pipeline
Not everyone loves hiring. Does anyone love hiring? Does anyone like hiring? Some parts of it can be fun: the excitement of bringing in new people and new ideas, imagining the possibilities, the hilarious typos on the resumes. But it can be a slog. Especially right now, many job postings will lead to a flood […]
