In my keynotes, I frequently poke fun at Core Values. I ask everyone in the audience who has “integrity” or “honesty” in their company core values to raise their hand, and then I congratulate them on effectively distin ...
I was talking with a colleague the other day who said that in her experience, management retreats usually ended up at one of two extremes: either they were stellar and everyone loved them, or they were a disaster and peo ...
I love data. I’m a cyclist, and in the group of friends I ride with, I’m known as “stats,” because I am always the one to report on our average speed and the number of meters we climbed, etc. So it shouldn’t be a surpris ...
Since publishing When Millennials Take Over, we've been consistently approached by people wanting us to answer a central question: how do we attract Millennials? Whether it's about attracting customers or the best employ ...
Maddie and I are introducing two new products to help you create stronger cultures and get better employee engagement: Culture Diagnostic + Workshop Culture and Engagement Coaching for Senior Executives In the ...
When you are interviewing people for an open position at your organization, and you ask the candidate if they have any questions for you, I'll bet that more often than not you get something along the lines of "So what is ...
I was at an event last week for association CEOs on finding and keeping top talent. The topic of culture was raised repeatedly (yay!), but in the middle of the panel discussion, a CEO of a large and successful associatio ...
"So how does that show up here?" I ask this one all the time. People tell me about things that are either good or bad in their workplaces in the course of my consulting, but the descriptions are fairly broad. They are ...
One of our biggest challenges when it comes to building a strong and powerful culture is the fact that no one has "build a strong and powerful culture" in their job description. And, frankly, if you do have something to ...
I hope you've seen the blog post that I wrote last Friday over on the Clarity.fm website. It's titled "Create a Culture that Drives Success, Not One that Makes You Feel Good." The founder of Clarity asked me to do a post ...
