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How We Onboard New Team Members
We designed our onboarding to embrace new hires and help them feel a strong sense of clarity, confidence, and connection. It works for us, and we’re excited to share it with other HR leaders. I hope you can use this to create transformational onboarding programs within your organization.
Four Strategies to Turn Your Culture Around
In 2015, 23% of people reported that they would leave their jobs for a 10% pay increase. The researchers asked the same question in 2019 and found the number had nearly doubled: 43%. The reason for rapid decrease in loyalty? The study pointed to poor culture.
The Only Thing That Makes Work Meaningful
The job is not what creates meaning. Instead, meaning comes from reflecting on and linking experiences. In other words, we create meaning when we connect our experiences to feelings, patterns, and insights about ourselves.
Does your organization lack connection?
What is holding back the growth of your business? Talent. You can’t hire fast enough and your employees are constantly being recruited to join other organizations. This challenge is not going to get easier - in fact, it is expected to get much harder: By 2030 the labor shortage will cost the economy $8.45 trillion a year
How to Scale Growth Mindset In Your Company
Adopting a Growth Mindset requires more than just acquiring knowledge. Frankly, that’s the easy part. Adopting a Growth Mindset requires a change in identity. You have to let go of many false notions about who you are as a person and work on your sense of self.
The Airbnb Approach to Talent Development
In 2017, the average employer spent 34.1 hours and $1,296 per employee on learning and development initiatives. That’s a lot of time and money, and with the accelerating demands on organization to retain employees and close the skill gap, total hours and dollars are likely to increase.
New Research: Peers Key to Growth
As it turns out, the career advice I have been dispensing all this time may be wrong. When asked what to look for in a new job, I often tell people to focus their attention on the manager: What can you learn from them?
AI, #MeToo and the New World of Work
The conversation about work is changing - have you noticed? Ten years ago the conversation was focused on engagement, efficiency, and innovation. Now the tone has become much more, well, human.
The New Competitive Advantage: Employee Fulfillment
What is holding back the growth of your business? Talent. You can’t hire fast enough and your teams are constantly being recruited to join other organizations. This challenge is not going to get easier - it is expected to get much harder.
Imperative connects and supports employees as peer coaches, enabling employers to build new mindsets and behaviors on a massive scale.