Tag: accountability
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Dos and Don’ts: How to Drive Accountability for Acting on Employee Feedback
Research shows that employees who work for organizations with a feedback program in place are more engaged. Taking it a step further, organizations that turn employee feedback into action “really well” have employees who are twice as engaged as those whose employer does not act on feedback well or at all.1 Despite these positive outcomes, only […]
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This Classic HR Tool gets a Makeover in the #MeToo Era
The world of work has been forever altered by the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements. Since their inception in October 2017 with the publication of sexual harassment and assault allegations against now-disgraced media mogul Harvey Weinstein, #MeToo stories and calls for #TimesUp have come to touch every corner of the corporate landscape. As the movement has […]
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It’s Time to Tidy Up – Get Organized, Reflect & Restore this Fall
While I never miss a spring-cleaning, during fall, I find it increasingly difficult to carve out time for cleaning, personal development, goal-setting, or creativity. I recently realized I should be more attuned to the natural signals of fall, as the transitions of this season can prompt reflection, getting organized, and clearing out unnecessary clutter in […]
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What Best-in-Class Executive Teams do to Drive Employee Engagement
Asking employees to give their feedback on an employee engagement survey can be anxiety-provoking for executive teams. Leaders know that engagement is important and that they should be asking for feedback, but sometimes the survey results can be a hard to take when they point to concerns around trust, communication, and organizational effectiveness. In my […]
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Are You Listening? What’s Your Pulse Survey Strategy?
It used to be best practice for organizations to measure employee engagement every 12 – 24 months and then roll out a year long process of disseminating results and building action plans. That approach no longer works. Why? The rate at which businesses are changing has accelerated. In the course of 1 – 2 years, […]
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9 Simple Ideas to Drive Employee Engagement
Clients often ask us for ideas on best practices for driving employee engagement. At Newmeasures, we believe that actions should be aligned based on the strategic objectives of the organization, as opposed to rolling out generic employee engagement initiatives (think: pizza Fridays, organization-wide training, etc.). That being said, we regularly encounter amazing ideas to drive […]
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Help Leaders Get the Most Out of Their 360° Survey
Going through a 360° survey process can be enormously valuable for building self-awareness and improving leadership skills. At the same time, the process can also be humbling (to say the least), surprising and downright hard. If you are encouraging leaders to go through a 360° feedback process, how can you make sure they get the […]