Posted by Arthur Mazor , Amy Sobey and Ken Kunkleman on November 15, 2017. And, only 22 percent feel confident that their organization is adapting well to employees’ needs. Culture is one of the most talked about topics of 2017 and is on the radar of executives as they look to mobilize their organizations to take on today’s business challenges. HR Transformation: Building Human Resources From the Outside In , RBL Institute, McGraw-Hill, June 22, 2009. MORE

Posted by Arthur Mazor , Amy Sobey and Ken Kunkleman on November 15, 2017. And, only 22 percent feel confident that their organization is adapting well to employees’ needs. Culture is one of the most talked about topics of 2017 and is on the radar of executives as they look to mobilize their organizations to take on today’s business challenges. HR Transformation: Building Human Resources From the Outside In , RBL Institute, McGraw-Hill, June 22, 2009. MORE

Two recent studies ( 2016 and 2017 ) found that the top drivers of 30+ organizations’ outcomes were management, job fit, and senior leadership—with management being the most consistent driver of outcomes. The results from the 2017 study are in Table 1. MORE

CM: I have definitely been on the far end of this since 2009. Or they look at one metric once a year around cost of labor or cost of living. Then the respondents give you really quality feedback about where you do well, where your needs lie, and what their concerns are. MORE

Not surprisingly, collective confidence throughout organizations is low as 2020 approaches: CEO confidence is at its lowest level since 2009. Leverage the energy and the agency that comes with digital transformation to improve the experience of the workforce (2017). MORE

Excel Hell is real, my friends, and it was the state of marketing almost everywhere circa 2009. The approach of, “Well, we sent them an onboarding email, so they’ll figure it out!” Fortunately for you and for me, you don’t have to be an Excel wizard to do this well. MORE

An engagement scorecard provides a more comprehensive view by tracking metrics around engagement beyond just the survey score. For example, referral rate will be the metric that would measure whether employees have referred friends and relatives. So how does one use these metrics? MORE

A recent, annual study released by CNBC ranked all 50 states for business competitiveness based on how they scored on over 60 metrics including cost of doing business, cost of living, and quality of life. . Jay Inslee said in 2017 when Washington was named America’s Top State for Business. . MORE

I define employee engagement as: good work done well with others every day. In 2009, roughly when the first Fitbit appeared, I wrote about Sandy Pentland’s work on “honest signals” 1 and the application of social measures to determine real-time social and team engagement. MORE