http://www.ttidisc.com/people-energizing-people Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:17:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en What Does Employee Disengagement Cost You? By Juan Kingsbury, TTI Solutions Specialist Manager In Jim Haudan’s book “The Art of Engagement,” a neighbor describes his understanding of engagement based on a brief experience with their two guests at a Major League Baseball game. These guests simply wanted “hot dogs” just as the ... http://www.ttidisc.com/people-energizing-people/2010/02/the-cost-of-disengagement/ For many organizations it is critical that top management focus on re-engaging their employees.  The past five or six years of negative attitudes have taken their toll on our employees. The workforce has been bombarded by the media with many value-based issues, such as healthcare, taxes, the war in Iraq, unemployment, ... http://www.ttidisc.com/people-energizing-people/2010/02/re-engaging-the-workforce/ Total Person Analysis Today’s economy is challenging each and every organization to take a deeper look at its employees and what motivates them.  But how do you truly measure the total person? Many companies have one or two ways to measure what a person brings to the job.  The fact of the ... http://www.ttidisc.com/people-energizing-people/2010/01/total-person-analysis-people-energizing-people-2010/ Continuous Learning Required Over the last 30 years, we have observed changes in jobs.  One of the more obvious changes has been moving from tangible work to intangible activities.  Building a brick wall is much different from checking your email.  The brick wall can be viewed and valued by many, while ... http://www.ttidisc.com/people-energizing-people/2009/12/what-does-it-take-to-stay-on-the-cutting-edge-people-energizing-people-december-2009/ Over the last 50 years, I have observed many fads come and go in the human resource arena. Coaching is one of the fads I hope stays, as it fills a void created by management’s failure to develop a personal development plan for each person they manage. Job-based coaching starts ... http://www.ttidisc.com/people-energizing-people/2009/11/job-based-coaching/ The idea of benchmarking jobs is a very effective first step to ensure getting the right person in the right job. However, that’s just the beginning. For years organizations have been paying top dollar for training, development and coaching, but towards what? Why is a person being developed? ... http://www.ttidisc.com/people-energizing-people/2009/11/benchmarking-jobs-not-just-a-talent-selection-tool/ For the last four years, we have been sending pre-screened and pre-qualified candidates to be interviewed for jobs.  The evidence is clear; hiring managers do not understand talent when they see it. There are a lot of articles and books about talent, but they really don’t get specific enough ... http://www.ttidisc.com/people-energizing-people/2009/10/the-answer-is-eliminating-bias/ Boomers, Gen X, Gen Y—Where to Start and What to Do Today’s world is filled with labels from political groups, religious preferences and generations to low performers, high potentials and star performers.  What does this mean?  More importantly, when did we start becoming labeled groups instead of human beings? Every week articles ... http://www.ttidisc.com/people-energizing-people/2009/09/boomers-gen-x-gen-y-where-to-start-and-what-to-do/ Research has proven that superior performers in all fields bring very specific things to the job. To start, they all are fulfilling their passion on the job.  A good example of this would be a librarian who has a strong desire for knowledge.  Every day they are surrounded by books ... http://www.ttidisc.com/people-energizing-people/2009/08/personal-skills-the-key-to-superior-performance/ More and more companies are measuring soft skills in their work force and evaluating their impact on performance. Only recently do we have evidence that soft skills may be age- and occupation-related.  This is based on four different studies.  The first two studies were conducted in the fall of 2008.  ... http://www.ttidisc.com/people-energizing-people/2009/08/soft-skills-can-they-be-taught-in-the-classroom/