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Lean Facilitators: What they do and what they need to know

Continuous Process Improvement, Employee Involvement, Organization Effectiveness

More and more organizations are discovering the need for trained facilitators as they move in the direction of implementing continuous process improvement (CPI), Lean, and Six Sigma.  In this blog I will refer to this position as Lean facilitator.  The purpose of this blog is to (a) describe the roles and responsibilities of Lean facilitators, (b) describe the areas of knowledge [...]

How Leaders Can Enhance Employee Engagement

Employee Involvement, Leadership, Teams and Group Dynamics

Guest author blog, written and researched by:  McKendree J. Hickory, Michael P. Yoder, Teanna S. Ziegler  Employee engagement has become an increasingly familiar topic in both organizations and research.  Leaders want to know how to best encourage and utilize their employee’s engagement, while research has strived to make this construct clear.  Engagement includes aspects of [...]

Adult Learning Theory: Outcomes and Examples

Employee Involvement, Performance Management, Training and Development

Learning is embedded, either formally or informally, in almost every aspect of our lives. Much of what we learn each day is acquired with little or no conscious effort.  For example, we learn about current events by watching the news, or learn about other people by listening to their stories.  Now shift into action learning [...]

Formal Mentoring Programs

Employee Involvement, Organization Effectiveness, Training and Development

Organizations of all sizes are turning to mentoring programs as a way to make use of existing talent to develop new employees and high potentials.  While mentoring programs are cost effective and capable of fulfilling several important objectives, they still must be carefully planned and supported by the organization.  In order to build success into [...]

How to Improve Job Satisfaction

Employee Involvement, Employee Surveys, Leadership, Organization Effectiveness

As of 2012, overall job satisfaction is at around 50%. Averaging across all industries, job levels, and pay rates, only 1/2 of all employees are satisfied with their jobs. The other 1/2 rate their job satisfaction as neutral, somewhat dissatisfied, or very dissatisfied. Mirroring this statistic (not surprisingly), only 50% of employees feel that their jobs are interesting. Does this describe you, your peers, or your employees?

Supervisor Support

Employee Involvement, Leadership, Organization Effectiveness

Leadership effectiveness has been integral to the field of applied organizational research for over half of a century. Over the years, we have seen charismatic leadership, Rushmorean leadership, servant leadership, transformational leadership, etc… The wealth of different categories and definitions of leadership can become overwhelming at times, which is why it is nice to look at actual concrete behaviors.