Recognise This! – Reviewing the favorite posts of other readers may highlight a new favorite for you.
I’m gratified to see many of my favorite posts from 2014 on this list, which is compiled from the most-read posts of 2014.(Click through on the titles for the full post.)
Which are your favorites?
1) Do These 2 Things or Watch Your Best Employees Leave
Recognise This! – Ongoing, immediate recognition of excellence is as important as career growth and development opportunities to retain top talent.
2) Why Employee Engagement Doesn’t Work
Recognise This! – Buzzwords don’t deliver desired results. Effort to communicate meaning and value does.
3) Perseverance and Progress: Why Grit Matters at Work
Recognise This! – Yes, we need smart people at work, but we need “gritty” people more.
4) Exorcise Energy Vampires to Increase the Bottom Line
Recognise This! – Good performance cannot balance the negative impact of continuously destroying team moral.
5) Strengthening the “Weak Links”
Recognise This! – Teams are made up of individuals who have varying strengths. Bringing out everyone’s strengths further strengthens the team and its results.
6) 5 Steps to Align Your Culture so All Employees Are Committed to Achieving Your Strategy
Recognise This! – Daily employee behaviours contribute to or detract from achieving company strategic objectives. Be sure you’re encouraging the right behaviours depending on your strategic objectives.
7) 5 Types of Fatigued Employees & How to Help Them Re-Engage
Recognise This! – Energy ebbs and flows over time, but we can help employees re-engage when we identify and address key areas of fatigue.
8) How to Love Work Again
Recognise This! – We all want to do good work and also do right by ourselves and our families. Balancing these “energy” needs is the path to success – at work and at home.
9) 3 Tips to Become an Exceptional Manager
Recognise This! – Selflessness, good assumptions and recognition are the most powerful tools in the good manager’s arsenal.
10) 5 Must-Haves for a Meaningful Message of Appreciation
Recognise This! – We see good examples of recognition around us all the time. The trick is incorporating those lessons in how we recognise others.
