The United States faces one of the worst job markets in years – check. Wages are low and bonuses almost non-existent – check. Both fresh graduates and trained professionals are jobless – check. In these hard times employee trust is one of the hardest things to gain as new and old employees try to come [...]
Most modern corporations know and understand that their most important assests and the liveblood of their entire organization are their employees. How important is it then to have effective employee engagement programs in place to make sure engagement efforts don’t fall short? And do such programs actually work in the first place? Kathy Miller explains [...]
I was inspired by this recent article in Business Week that talked about how a high-ranking executive considers two main criteria to be the core of his “leadership philosophy.” Those two factors being – idealism and realism. These two qualities along with one of my own, leadership trust, are what I believe all effective leaders [...]
Trust is in the air. It seems that everything you read and every speech you hear refers to trust. Trust measurement: We need it. When it come to trust, we want it, we don’t have it and we wonder how to get it back. I’ve been researching, thinking and writing about trust for a long [...]