Reacting to so-called “20 percent time” policies made popular by Google and others, a recent article on Inc. argues that innovation rarely comes from protected time or spaces away from normal work. Rather, great ideas “come from busy people who had ideas while doing their day job, stayed late, and tried things.” This...
Editor’s Note: Readers sometimes ask about past TLNT articles, so every Friday we republish a Classic TLNT post. Research on the ROI of employee engagement has proven time and again that organizations that create an engaging environment perform better than their competitors. Results show that engaged companies: Experience a 19.2 percent growth in operating income (over a...
Quick — tick off the leadership traits that you often hear from conference speakers, read in leadership books or blogs, or study in training programs. I’m guessing your list includes these: Inspiring, visionary, passionate, focused, disciplined, decisive, ethical. The lesser known qualities of leadership get far less mention, but still they play a...
By Eric B. Meyer Folks, it’s been a crappy 2016 for Chipotle. Last year, Chipotle’s National Social Media strategist saw a series of tweets from a Chipotle employee working just outside of Philadelphia. The tweets had a common theme: Working conditions: One of Kennedy’s tweets included a news article concerning hourly workers having...
Editor’s Note: As I wind down as Editor of TLNT — yes, I’m leaving in April — I wanted to share some of my all-time favorite TLNT posts. Here’s one from June 2012. Once upon a time, I made the case we should celebrate June 25 as “Bad Management Day,” a day when we reflect on...How many expensive employee engagement programs do HR teams deploy that just don’t show results? We all know the answer to that one—too many. The fact is, once you hire someone they rarely change, and expensive programs are unlikely to change that. New science shows the key to improving HR’s effectiveness may be to place more focus on recruiting the right candidates in the first place.
As budgets are tightened but the expectations from the business continue to rise, it makes sense to focus resources on recruiting people who want to work for your company for the right reasons rather than on trying to correct that later.. When we hire purpose oriented people, it radically changes everything and removes the need for many HR programs currently eating up money and frustrating everyone.
In this webinar, we’ll look at what it means to hire purpose oriented candidates and examine how West Elm fundamentally changed their HR team, making it into a more strategic business partner, when they shifted HR spending to focus on recruiting.
Join our free webinar on Wednesday, March 23 for insight into how the focus on recruiting purpose-driven candidates can transform HR’s effectiveness.
Our speaker, Aaron Hurst, will share his experience in creating teams and communities around purpose-driven work, and will be joined by Allison Hyers of west elm.
Who should attend? This webinar is for you if you’re interested in learning more about the benefits of hiring purpose driven people. Join us on Wednesday, March 23.
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