Master the Art of Questioning (and Listening) to Better Raise Productivity
The ability to ask meaningful questions that elicit thoughtful, useful answers is a core leadership skill that you must make an everyday habit. Good input comes from frank discussions, and leads to...
View ArticleLeaders Must Still Manage. You Don’t Get Off That Hook!
Great leadership mindsets and behaviors are not a replacement for, but a part of, great management technique. Those who think transforming themselves into great leaders somehow absolves them of the...
View ArticleEmployee Engagement Must Address Professional and Personal Performance Factors
When seeking to raise workplace performance through employee engagement, the engagement program must make room for, and value, all the environmental factors that impact each employee. This includes...
View ArticleIn 2015 Employee Engagement Will Look Like It Did in 2014…and 2013…
The fundamental elements of employee engagement programming do not change by year. This is foundational stuff for your future business success, and a consistent approach that employees can come to rely...
View ArticleLeadership Tips for Kicking Off 2015
In our latest blog post we share five key leadership tips that can get you started well in 2015. New Year resolutions must last past January 31! Click through for more details about how to sustain your...
View ArticleDave Tighe Joins Writers on LinkedIn as Employee Engagement Expert
Our co-founder Dave Tighe is now writing about team engagement, employee engagement and leadership development on LinkedIn. He looks forward to sharing his long experience in building productive teams...
View ArticleTemporary Project Teams Need Scaffolding to Work Well
Teams with rotating memberships can achieve higher productivity if the structure of the team’s working environment is set and understood. Try “scaffolding”: Creating a known working structure within...
View ArticleWhen Motivating Employees, Do Words Get In the Way?
How you express yourself impacts how well listeners receive what you say. And in many instances, business-speak shorthand can confuse matters rather than present ideas clearly. Let's see how "goals,"...
View ArticleYou Will Not Engage Every Employee – Nor Should You
Setting your employee engagement goal at 100% is a waste of resources. Too many factors drive engagement and employee turnover for you to travel that last mile from 90% to 100% profitably. But, you...
View ArticleThe Lemonade of Employee Turnover
Employee turnover is costly, but inevitable. You must expect to lose both great people, and the people you are not sorry to see go. Regardless, a departing employee leaves a gap in your team that could...
View ArticleAppreciation: We All Crave It – We Forget to Give It
Here is a telling statistic on the poor state of employee engagement: A survey finds that 80% of respondents agree that receiving gratitude makes them work harder, but only 10% report managing to...
View ArticleHow Can Your Words Build or Break Trust With Co-Workers?
As a leader or co-worker, the words you choose to use when responding to input strongly impact how the conversation goes. Are you encouraging, or off-putting? Do you validate the ideas of others, or...
View ArticleChallenge Negative Mindsets When Pursuing New Ideas
Objections are the hobgoblin of risk-averse corporate minds. Innovation challenges the status quo, and leaders with new ideas must anticipate and confront the hurdles the risk-averse will throw up in...
View ArticleThe ROI of Team Engagement – How to Measure?
How do you measure the ROI of investments in team-based employee engagement? Engage the team in creating measurement methodologies that gather real data about innovation, time saved, FTE positions...
View ArticleBovo Tighe Boosts Productivity by Raising Employee Engagement – Team by Team
At Bovo-Tighe we fix teams for a living. Whether you have a new team that needs to gel quickly, or an intact group that needs to recapture its old magic, we reconnect people with their passion for...
View ArticleFour Leadership Tips to Make November More Productive
November and December are busy both professionally and personally, so you have to think ahead to help your team make these next two months a success. Meet NOW with each employee to put plans in place...
View ArticleTemporary Project Teams Need Scaffolding to Work Well
Teams with rotating memberships can achieve higher productivity if the structure of the team’s working environment is set and understood. Try “scaffolding”: Creating a known working structure within...
View ArticleWhen Motivating Employees, Do Words Get In the Way?
How you express yourself impacts how well listeners receive what you say. And in many instances, business-speak shorthand can confuse matters rather than present ideas clearly. Let's see how "goals,"...
View ArticleYou Will Not Engage Every Employee – Nor Should You
Setting your employee engagement goal at 100% is a waste of resources. Too many factors drive engagement and employee turnover for you to travel that last mile from 90% to 100% profitably. But, you...
View ArticleThe Lemonade of Employee Turnover
Employee turnover is costly, but inevitable. You must expect to lose both great people, and the people you are not sorry to see go. Regardless, a departing employee leaves a gap in your team that could...
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