#employee-engagement

#employee-engagement

"When you talk to people about breaking them down, they feel like they're going to get flattened. This negative perception of breaking down siloes can impact the organization's ability to solve the siloes in the first place."

"I now take lunch early and at my desk. This is a big cultural change because French meals can be long. This has been one of my adjustments."

Meta is building a photorealistic, AI-powered version of Mark Zuckerberg that can interact with employees in his place, trained on Zuckerberg's mannerisms, tone, and publicly available statements.

The shift was apparent. People had a stake in the outcome, and they acted like it. Ideas flowed more freely, teams spotted and solved problems earlier, and employees took pride in identifying and implementing improvements.

Character-driven leaders who display four cardinal virtues - integrity, compassion, the ability to forgive and forget, and accountability - consistently deliver return on assets up to five times larger than the ROAs produced by their counterparts with a self-focused leadership style, who never or rarely exhibit those four traits.

Across practitioner reports and peer-reviewed research, including a new report from the Institute for Corporate Productivity, organizations that commit to highly flexible models, including remote-first, report strong output, healthier engagement, and faster growth than mandate-driven peers.

Gathering training feedback is crucial because it shows whether your L&D initiatives are actually making a difference. While attendance metrics and completion rates give you surface-level insights, authentic feedback reveals how learners felt, what they understood, and which areas they struggled with. Feedback also identifies gaps between desired outcomes and real-world results.

What started as a casual indulgence became a shared ritual. And without intending to, Grease Wednesdays began to change our department culture. We all began to get to know each other as individuals, with pets and families and hobbies. The ritual also smoothed tensions between departments, built friendships between unfamiliar teammates, and helped us realize we hadn't felt all that connected before.

With more organizations employing teams spread across North America, Europe, and Asia, or allowing employees to work remotely from various countries, a "one-size-fits-all" local approach is no longer viable. Today, however, that approach is increasingly challenged by the rapid globalization of talent.