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Why Employee Recognition Matters in Today’s Workplace

Rick Conlow

Culturally engrained employee recognition and appreciation matters in today’s workplace. Tanner Institute’s 2020 Global Culture Report showed that 87% of organizations with a strong recognition culture reported a positive employer brand. When executed well it elevates engagement and retention.

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Keeping Human Stories at the Center of Health Care

Harvard Business

We need to build an intentional, human-centered culture and approach burnout and well-being comprehensively — aligning them with other organizational priorities. We need a metric for humanity to evaluate the human capacity and connection among caregivers and patients. Bryan Sexton of Duke University Medical Center.

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Change Management Is Becoming Increasingly Data-Driven. Companies Aren’t Ready

Harvard Business

This data can then feed into a predictive model, helping us know with precision the actions that are going to accelerate adoption of a new practice, process, or behavior by a given employee group. Developing these sorts of metrics will not be quick or easy. Build a Dashboard.

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How to Motivate Frontline Employees

Harvard Business

One question that has long plagued organizations is how to improve performance among frontline workers, the people who actually drive customer experience. In 2016 the leadership team of a national retail organization asked us to help boost their frontline performance. To show how it works, we’ll walk you through an example.

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Scaling Customer Service as Your Startup Grows

Harvard Business

Don’t obsess over metrics like inquiry volume or time to close tickets. Set up post-interaction NPS so you can tell if someone is still upset even after an issue is “solved,” start tracking the volume and quality of requests coming in along with metrics relating to revenue (i.e., Establish models, not just metrics.

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Why GE, Boeing, Lowe’s, and Walmart Are Directly Buying Health Care for Employees

Harvard Business

Candidate centers must provide information including detailed clinical protocols, surgical-patient selection criteria, clinical registry participation (more on that below), information on multidisciplinary shared decision-making, as well as institutional and physician-level performance metrics.

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Great Digital Companies Build Great Recommendation Engines

Harvard Business

In my experience, legacy managements too frequently misunderstand recommenders’ role in driving innovation and cultural change. Platform companies invest in virtuous cycles to solve problems; more-traditional firms invest in process improvement to solve problems. What metric matters more: engagement or inquiry?