Values alignment

How to Keep Employees Happy and Productive (Without Huge Salaries)

Following up on the theme of last week’s post, we’d like to focus on how employers can keep and engage core talent by keeping employees happy and productive without paying huge salaries. That’s not to say that Gravity Payments' model, which involved CEO Dan Price taking a major pay cut to boost his employee minimum pay to $70,000, didn’t get Gravity Payments workers pretty excited; however, this model is...

How to Build Your Company Culture on Core Values

A company culture is just a mirror of its owner. The clearer an owner is on what they stand for (and what they won’t stand for) the stronger the company culture  they establish will be.  In Forbes online, Stanford MBA graduate Kevon Saber gives us the following questions that he used to build the culture at his online wellness app company: 1. When have you felt most alive? Kevon discovered...

9 Critical Mistakes Leaders Make

In this succinct and informative video, Harvard Business Review interviews 9 experts on leadership to discover what they think are the most critical mistakes leaders make. 1. Irresponsibility Good leadership comes from being responsible – for your company, employees and customers. Poor leadership results when you put your self-interest before the interest of the institution that you run. 2. Betraying Trust Trust is the most valuable currency not only for doing...

3 Keys to Reviving Work Ethic in Millenials

Think younger workers lack a solid work ethic? Canadian HR Reporter interviewed Eric Chester, author of Reviving Work Ethic, on the matter. Here are his thoughts: Value Differences Younger workers don’t have a poor work ethic, just a different one. New workers are entering the workforce with a different values and beliefs. It is important to understand that these values and beliefs are not necessarily bad.  They just offer a...

2 Foundations for Creating a Healthy Workplace

A healthy workplace is not something that happens by accident. If your company aspires to be a top employer, consciously pursuing workplace health needs to be a top priority. The good news is that not only does a focus on workplace wellness go a long way to attract and retain great employees, there is a growing body of research to prove that such initiatives provide a substantial return on...