Jack Welch on Management Style

Are you being fair to your employee? How would your employee rate you?
Tough questions that every manager needs to ask themselves.

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Why Company Culture Matters!

A Beer Company Loving What They Do In The Service Of Others.

A Simple Game Plan to Cultural Shift!

Does your company need to make a cultural shift? The game plan is simple but the execution is challenging. Do you have what it takes?

Step 1: Identify your problems.

Be open minded and honest with yourself and identify all the major problems within your company. In order for you to shift your culture, you need to know what to fix. Are your problems any of the following: People, Hiring, Management, Supervisors, or worst case scenario YOU (Be Honest)!

Step 2: Reward change at the top.

Senior level buy-in is crucial for a long-term cultural shift. Likewise, employee buy-in is also essential to shift culture. Buy-in is hardest part of the process because the idea sounds great but execution is difficult. Even with the best reward programs, the decisions that need to be made are still difficult. What do I mean? Hear are a few what if scenarios: changing your managements or your personal habits, keeping the program at the focus while in the trenches, or termination of top performers due to no buy-in (my toughest, who wants to fire the best performer?).

Step 3: Pick a program.

There is no secret sauce that you can buy to fix your cultural problems. There are only programs and game plans that will help guide you to find your secret sauce which will shift your culture. The object from any training program is to give your team the tools it needs to implement your companies secret sauce (its culture). Which program should you buy? I recommend that you choose a program that senior level management is excited about and willing to put a 110% effort into it. Their involve will dramatically increase your success to shift the core culture.

The game plan is simple, but the execution is difficult. All great leaders need to go through great adversity to become a great leader. There is no other way to become a great leader.

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7 Best Practices to Boost Employee Engagement!

We know that company culture drives Employee Engagement but what specifically can we do to change the company culture. Michael Stallard identified 7 Best Practices to Boost Employee Engagement they are as follows:

1. Set "Top Five" High Level Annual Priorities. Remain focused on the company goals so that the employees are not overwhelmed.
2. Know Their (Employee) Stories. Not their career stories, but their personal life. Build a friendship.
3. Help People Get Into the "Right Role." Know each persons DISC, Motivators, and Skills to coach them into the right role.
4. Develop the Habit of Emphasizing Positives. Remain positive and your team will rally behind you. There is no place for negativity here!
5. Provide Constructive Feedback in a Constructive Way. Coach your team with love and respect and they will follow you anywhere willingly.
6. Provide Autonomy in Execution. No job is to small or to big for you. Offer help but do not "micro mange" or "helicopter" them.
7. Hold In-Person Meetings and Regularly Check-In. Follow one of the best leaders in history British Prime Minister Winston Churchill by staying in touch with your team. Use whatever means of communication possible but stay in touch in their weekly or daily life. This only takes 5 minutes.

These 7 best practices are simple tasks that cost the company nothing but they will change your culture and drive Employee Engagement overnight. Employees want purpose, their voice heard, and a relationship with the people they spend more time with than their own family. Remember life is to short to be unhappy 40 to 60 hours a week.

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3 Tips to Hiring Millennials the Right Way

There are several ways to hire millennials, but fitting them into your company's culture is whole another step. We help companies throughout the world hire the right people and on board them into the companies culture.

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5 Barriers that Kept Microsoft from Beating the iPhone!

Does your company's changes fail on a consistent basis?

Many companies fail at change because the company does not take into account the organizations culture. The organizations culture includes both the business side and the company's emotional side of the decision. According to Professor Quy Huy article, Five Reasons Most Companies Fail at Strategy Execution, Microsoft failed at beating the iPhone not because of lack of resources but because of its organizational culture.

Huy's identifies 5 barriers that most companies face when dealing with change. 

1. Mistrust and low sharing of useful and timely information

2. Low receptivity to effortful change

3. More talk than action, then misaligned action

4. Mechanistic action

5. Complacency

The key to success in any change within an organization is a good plan of action and an even better culture. To build a better culture, a company needs to figure out how to communicate with each other and DISC provides that common language between all employees. 

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