Posts by Sharon Taylor
Enhance Cognitive Empathy with Emergenetics®
Empathy is a popular word these days. As we navigate stressful times, the calls to cultivate greater understanding have increased. It’s nearly impossible to find a blog post written in the past year that doesn’t mention empathy as an essential practice for successful leaders, managers or employees. I whole-heartedly appreciate the renewed emphasis on this…
Read MorePrioritize Soft Skills to Enhance Workplace and Employee Wellness
Maximizing wellbeing can prove to be a challenge in the best of times. During an unprecedented pandemic, it has been even more difficult to manage! One 2020 poll revealed that 53% of adults reported their mental health had been negatively impacted due to stress since the COVID-19 outbreak. That decline doesn’t just affect the respondent.…
Read MoreDo You Need Help Prioritizing Your Employee Engagement Strategy?
Amid so many workplace challenges right now, I do help that organizations are choosing to prioritize the wellbeing and engagement of their employees. After all, we know how costly it is to have disengaged employees. We also know that engagement contributes to better customer service, greater profitability and organizational success, which are contributing factors to…
Read MoreSeven Strategies to Motivate Remote Employees
Have you noticed a dip in the motivation of your team members recently? With the emotional stress and economic concerns brought on by the pandemic, many individuals are feeling fatigued, and as the need to work remotely stretches on, your employees’ drive may decrease further. A survey cited in the Harvard Business Review showed that…
Read MoreChampion a Culture Shift to Spark Your Organization’s Success
The ethos of your company can be a source of motivation and engagement for your employees. It’s culture that drives how team members behave, align and interact with one another. Culture can explain what initiatives are prioritized in your organization and when and how they get done. It can also help your company recruit and…
Read MoreDrive Employee Engagement Through Learning & Development (+ Free eBook)
As many teams continue to work remotely or in a hybrid environment, it’s not uncommon for staff to feel disconnected from colleagues and their organization, which can have a negative impact on your employee engagement. While there is no shortage of challenges and opportunities that companies need to address in this pandemic, your employees should…
Read MoreBusiness Recovery How To: Make Remote Work Sustainable
As many organizations around the globe have announced that employees will work from home for the remainder of 2020, or in some cases indefinitely, leaders are increasingly considering the question: is 100% remote work truly sustainable? It can be a mixed bag when you consider the opportunities and challenges that come from a virtual workforce.…
Read MoreEight Steps to Inspire an Agile Approach to Workforce Planning
“Workforce planning” may feel like a bit of an oxymoron in 2020 as work has been turned on its head and sticking to any sort of plan has become increasingly difficult. For organizations that want to do more than react to current challenges, it’s essential to have a strategy to: Identify how you need and…
Read MoreNine Ways Managers Can Enhance Employee Engagement for On-Site & Virtual Teams [Free Guide]
Employee engagement has understandably had its ups and downs this year. Still, the actual numbers may surprise you. In May, Gallup found a record-high 38% of workers were engaged in the workplace, and in June, the figure dropped to 31%, which is one of the most significant decreases the organization has seen since it began…
Read MoreA Business Recovery How To: Reskill and Upskill Your Employees
If reskilling and upskilling were not part of your Learning & Development (L&D) strategy for 2020, I’d invite you to consider these areas of focus now as your organization prioritizes its recovery. At the start of the year LinkedIn’s 2020 Workplace Learning Report identified that 51% of L&D professionals were planning to launch upskilling programs…
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