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OCTOBER 30, 2017

By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! – All humans have the capacity to grow, learn and develop but are too often held back by fear of failure. A growth mindset in an agile work environment is key to working more human. I heard a fascinating podcast recently on applying the agile software development method to your family. (Here’s the TED talk version.) Our company applies the agile method to nearly every part of our business far beyond our software developer group, and I can see how it could easily

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APRIL 20, 2017

By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! – The next generation of performance management will be employee driven and focused on contributions. Social technologies are the tools that make it effective. Across the landscape of companies redesigning performance reviews, there is a diverse range in the way those systems are designed and implemented. Yet regardless of the specific path chosen, the common thread is to streamline and make the evaluative process more efficient while also increasing validity.

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APRIL 12, 2017

By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! – Givers find energy when they give in self-protective and personally meaningful ways, and when they are recognized and reminded of how their contributions matter. It’s not just about giving and taking anymore. Recent research by Adam Grant and Reb Rebele shows that the type of giving matters – specifically whether you are a “selfless” or a “self-protective” giver.

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MARCH 1, 2017

By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! – Changes in the business world are rapidly accelerating. To keep up, companies will need to recognize more of potential and creativity, and less past performance. Keeping up with the changing world of work is becoming more and more difficult. No longer just about the pace of change, leaders must now also react and respond to the complexity of interacting and overlapping changes.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! – Research shows talent deployment matters more than the raw amount of talent. One effective strategy is to encourage talent networks through social recognition. The war for talent is most often described in terms of a company’s ability to attract and retain employees with the highest levels of productivity and/or the most potential.

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JANUARY 30, 2017

by Lynette Silva. Recognize This! – Humans are designed to need to recharge. Work often is not. What does it mean to be human? A significant part of being human requires shutting off. We need deep sleep for our brains to clear out all the muck , process the day and file it away in long-term memory , and reset for the next day. Humans need to recharge.

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JANUARY 16, 2017

By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! – Experiments in the workplace can help show the impact of innovative practices, and provide insight into management philosophies. Experimentation in the workplace isn’t necessarily a new idea. As early as the 1920s, studies have looked into the effect that various workplace changes , such as lighting and scheduling adjustments, could have on productivity.

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DECEMBER 28, 2016

by Lynette Silva. Recognize This! – Understanding the importance of the work and the people doing it make work matter and make work more human. The new year is nearly upon us (and I, for one, am ready to put paid to 2016). With the new year often comes the opportunity for evaluation of our lives and our priorities. Many of us start a new year with new ambitions, goals for change, ideas for improvements.

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DECEMBER 22, 2016

By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! – Technology can help us look back at all we have done over the year, celebrating accomplishments and increasing our sense of meaning and belonging through work. The year’s end offers an excellent opportunity to look back at all of one’s accomplishments. Not merely for the sake of nostalgia, taking time to review one’s own body of work reinforces the depth and meaning of connections that have been made at work.

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DECEMBER 16, 2016

by Traci Pesch. Recognize This! – The gift of giving thanks is as powerful as receiving it. Last week my colleague wrote about the holiday gift every employee wants to receive – the gift of thanks. While true, a video making the Facebook rounds reminded me that same gift is what employees want to give, too. There is just as much power in the giving of thanks as in the receiving.

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DECEMBER 14, 2016

By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! – With a thoughtful approach, positive organizational strategies contribute to a better employee experience. The impact of positivity in the workplace is a subject of some debate. Some point to its tangible benefits, but others are somewhat more cynical. While the truth may take some time to uncover, the ultimate impact may be attributable to variability in how positive organizational strategies and initiatives have been implemented.

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DECEMBER 8, 2016

by Lynette Silva. Recognize This! – The best gift anyone can give or receive is the gift of thanks. What’s the most fraught HR decision/situation this time of year? Easy answer – the office holiday party. Setting aside some of the more drama-filled scenes and stories (though I enjoyed Tim Sackett’s holiday party rules ), the holiday party is a good way to celebrate a year’s worth of hard work and success as well as an opportunity to strengthen relationships with colleagues.

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DECEMBER 6, 2016

By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! — In the gig economy, a growing portion of people are working for reasons other than pay. That could mean big shifts for how companies motivate and attract workers in the future. The gig economy has gotten quite a bit of press recently, as the popularity of technology-enabled platforms has made it easier than ever for people to find and get paid for gigs.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2016

by Lynette Silva. Recognize This! – A powerful employee experience at work is built on everyday practices of gratitude, appreciation and thanksgiving. What’s the employee experience like in your organization? How would you describe it (briefly) to others? After experiencing our latest GloboThanksgiving (where we gather as a team in both our HQ offices in the US and Ireland), I’d have to describe our employee experience at Globoforce as “GloboThanksgiving every day of the year!”.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2016

By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! – Shifting a portion of compensation to the crowd is one way companies can ensure greater effectiveness and alignment to performance. The transformation of performance reviews is a topic increasingly top of mind for many HR professionals. One of the major driving forces is the changing nature of performance itself. Whether you view it through the lens of the gig economy, teams-based organizing, or the knowledge economy, performance in modern organizations is simu

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NOVEMBER 14, 2016

by Lynette Silva. Recognize This! – Technology, especially HR technology, enables our better human instincts to help us create more human workplaces. Technology and HR. How does that compute? (Sorry – couldn’t help the pun) Isn’t HR about humans? If the obvious answer is yes, then why is so much effort expended on HR technology? These aren’t trivial questions in terms of investment – in business and in people.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2016

By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! – Motivating employees requires more than compensation, which can create “prisoners.” Instead, companies need to emphasize a richer employee experience. There is an interesting “iceberg” effect when it comes to employee motivation. Company leadership tends to focus on what is immediately visible, both for top talent and for severe underperformers for example.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2016

By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! – Shifting away from too much hierarchy, organizations need to emphasize more dynamic and more human ways of working. The pace of changes facing modern businesses is incredible. Many organizations are finding that those changes require an evolution in management philosophy- away from aspects that were successful during the Industrial Era and toward aspects that allow the organization to be more dynamic.

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OCTOBER 25, 2016

by Traci Pesch. Recognize This! – All employees can benefit from the power of thanks, regardless of job type, function or role. I get asked lot of questions. As a mother, I hear interesting questions like: “Why does Moose’s (our pet guinea pig) nose move up and down and not side to side?” and “If the earth is round, do rainbows circle the earth? And if they do, where does the pot of gold go?

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OCTOBER 19, 2016

By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! – Trends in HR for the year ahead will emphasize empowerment, the employee experience, and ultimately a more human workplace. What will some of the big themes be for HR leaders in the year ahead and how can we begin preparing for them? For some answers, I attended a session at HR Tech based on Josh Bersin’s new report, HR Technology Disruptions for 2017.

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OCTOBER 6, 2016

by Traci Pesch. Recognize This! – Simply expressing to others they are appreciated and important powerfully and positively impacts both the giver and receiver of the praise. How do you change someone’s perspective of themselves? How do you change your own perspective of yourself and your mission? One step – recognize someone. Celebrate the good in them.

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OCTOBER 3, 2016

By Derek Irvine. I’m packing my bags and heading to Chicago for the 19 th Annual HR Technology Conference and Expo. It’s a fantastic show for seeing what the future of HR holds and what the leaders of the field are thinking about today. I always come back to the office with a ton of energy and ideas. If you’ll be at the conference, I hope that you can stop by a pre-conference session I am hosting alongside Jay Dorio of IBM (October 4 th at 2:30 pm).

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

by Lynette Silva. Recognize This! – How your employees experience recognition and appreciation for daily efforts and results can determine the success of your organization culture. Is there an easy and quick way to judge the culture of a company and assess potential for future performance? According to David Novak , former CEO of Yum! Brands, yes. Simply look for telltale signs of a culture of recognition and appreciation at work.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! – The practices that make a workplace more human are also the ones that can position a company to successfully adapt to future change. Many companies are struggling to keep pace with emerging skills gaps. This is according to a recent interview in Harvard Business Review with Cathy Benko, Vice Chairman at Deloitte. She points to the need for companies to move away from industrial-era practices, focusing instead on more fluid and employee-driven approaches.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

by Lynette Silva. Recognize This! – Our world is highly networked today and will become more so in a more secure fashion. Leaders must help ensure we retain our humanity as we become at once more connected and more secure. I’ve just finished a book that’s possibly frightened me more than the Exorcist. (And that’s saying something. I didn’t sleep after dark for a week after reading that.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! – Failing to address disruptive behavior by high-performers can actually hurt overall productivity. Leaders should focus on creating a culture that encourages everyone to contribute instead. What should a leader do when one of their most productive employees is also the most disruptive? It’s a challenging question that gets at the costs versus benefits of retaining that employee.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

by Traci Pesch. Recognize This! – The sport of gymnastics offer several lessons we can apply to make work more human. My daughter did gymnastics for 6 years. It’s an intense sport for which, unless you’re deeply in it, it is hard to understand the level of commitment necessary. To be a top-level gymnast requires dedication of your entire mind and body, relentless practice of 30-40 hours a week, and mental discipline to engage in 6+ hour meets where you must focus completely for less than 2 minut

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! – A social recognition solution aligned to core values helps ensure that those values are lived by all employees and actively managed by leaders. Have you thought about where the core values at your company came from? In all probability, they were developed as a way to successfully drive a specific culture and achieve organizational success.

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AUGUST 31, 2016

By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! – Encouraging positivity at work can be challenging, but is achievable through a strong culture of recognition and making work human. It’s no surprise that positive workplaces can help contribute to a whole host of beneficial results , from better health to greater productivity. The challenge that many companies face is how to go about creating a more positive and human-centered workplace.

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AUGUST 24, 2016

By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! – Social recognition can help new employees rapidly feel more connected, engaged, and aligned. The transition to a new job, either at a new organization or just a new department, can be a stressful time. Although new employees are often prepared for the sheer amount of things to learn, they are often far less prepared for the time it takes to ramp up.

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AUGUST 23, 2016

By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! – Companies that emphasize cultures of contribution rather than hours spent at a desk are better positioned to achieve success. Everyone seems to be much busier these days, rushing between meetings or from project to project, with even less time being spent away from work. It can seem like being busy has become a competition.

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AUGUST 18, 2016

By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! – Less pure output and more holistic wellbeing, productivity is driven by the employee experience and technologies that can give leaders greater insight. Last week, I wrote about worker productivity from the perspective of economists and the figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In that post, a decline in productivity appears to reflect deep transformations in the employee experience , alongside lower levels of technology and people investments.

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AUGUST 16, 2016

by Lynette Silva. Alcatraz – Inside the Main Cellhouse, CC BY 2.0 – By Daniel Ramirez, Honolulu, USA. Recognize This! – Respect is a foundational element of working more human, in any work environment. What’s the most inhumane work environment you can think of? Hard field labor in the blazing sun? Dangerous construction or energy work?

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AUGUST 12, 2016

By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! –. Numbers have come out recently from the Bureau of Labor Statistics on worker productivity, and the conclusions aren’t all that positive. According to the report , productivity has been on the decline in the US for the previous four quarters at an annualized rate of 0.4%. Yet, number of hours worked over the same period have increased by 1.5%.

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AUGUST 10, 2016

by Lynette Silva. Recognize This! – Working more human requires we allow our humans to be fully themselves, inside and outside work. You could call me a football fan if, by “fan,” you mean I sit and a read book next to my husband while he watches the Patriots game. But I seem to have picked up more than I realized by this fan-through-proximity method.

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AUGUST 8, 2016

By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! – Social recognition is a simple, fast solution to ensuring the success of change efforts. One of the broad challenges faced by many of the global companies I speak with comes down to change management. For them, it is not only a question of the ultimate success of a given effort, but also their ability to diffuse those changes rapidly across their global employee base.

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AUGUST 5, 2016

by Traci Pesch. Recognize This! – We cannot create more human work cultures if we don’t honor the human need to rest, reflect, and breathe. I’m just back from vacation – enjoying family and friends immersed in sun, sand, and ocean. The ability to step back, relax, and rest my mind certainly made it possible to bring a rejuvenated spirit to my work. And this experience reminded me of recent podcast from NPR’s Shankar Vedantam and Dan Pink (author of Drive ): “What Science Says about Taking a Grea

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