Performance Matters Blog
4 Steps to Improve Your Engagement
Resolutions for Personal and Professional Achievement Full disclosure: A version of this blog appeared nearly a decade ago. Its principles...
Six Tips for Employee Onboarding in a Hybrid Workplace
Congratulations. You’re hiring. Perhaps your business is experiencing a growth spurt requiring a high volume of new hires and newly...
Advice for Leaders About Coping with the Turnover Tsunami
Pick your favorite label: The Turnover Tsunami. The Great Resignation. The Great Departure. The Big Quit. We’re talking about a...
6 Tips to Get Your Measurement Mojo Back
Has it been a while since your last employee engagement survey? Are you ready to re-engage but don’t know where to start? Here are six…
4 Strategies for Creating a Culture of Career Growth
Creating a culture of career growth improves the odds that your workforce will be willing, ready, and able to move into the roles that you…
3 Conversations You Need to Have With Your Team
If you manage employees, you need to talk to them. That's a no brainer, right? Yet manager-employee conversations are more of a myth than a…
8 Truths to Shape Your Success
I’ve spent the better part of the year talking and writing about resilience, personal and organizational engagement strategies, and future-proofing...
Five Considerations for Managing Personal Engagement Now
As communities around the world respond to the coronavirus pandemic, many of us are facing jobs, communities, and homes that...
Five Evergreen Strategies for Employee Engagement in the Future Workplace
Employee engagement is an organizational performance strategy. It’s also a highly personal equation: Every person has a unique relationship with...
Can You Train Someone to Be More Engaged?
Spoiler alert: Not really. Engagement is an individualized equation, reflecting an employee’s personal relationship with work. There will never be...
Have a Holly Jolly… Performance Review?
The first time I wrote about performance management, more than a decade ago, “Death, Taxes, and Performance Management” was a...
Surveys: To Pulse… Or Not to Pulse…
I straddle the worlds of employee experience surveys, learning solutions, and performance improvement resources. No matter which “hat” I’m wearing...
Don’t Let the Tail Wag the Dog And Other Engagement Measurement Lessons
Who doesn’t love trends? Digitization of the workplace, the Internet of Things, consumerization of the employee experience, and big data are just a few phrases…
More Great Days at Work Start With You
The BlessingWhite X-model of employee engagement speaks to an organizational environment that allows employees to achieve maximum satisfaction, while at the same time making a…
